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A Storm Behind the Isle of Wight
Julius Caesar IbbetsonLinkedCulture matchlcp-675d8f2e4794
- Date
- c.179(?)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- England, 18th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 126243
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The scene depicts a family's distress upon finding that one of its members has drowned off the rocky shore of the Isle of Wight during a storm. A ship sinks in the wild sea, amid swirling dark clouds and lightning flashes. The artist had visited the Isle of Wight in 1791. Ibbetson began his career by copying Dutch landscape paintings for dealers. He is known to have produced copies and fakes in the style of other masters as well.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Henry W. Kent
- Provenance
- Henry W. Kent.; after his death, held in trust by the estate. | Estate of Henry W. Kent, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1948.
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