'Harriet' at Cherbourg

New this week, a handsome marine work in ink and wash, heightened with white— a fine example by esteemed maritime painter Nicholas Matthew Condy (1818–1851) and an interesting subject in the history of competitive yachting. The 95-ton cutter 'Harriet' is moored at the French port of Cherbourg—Lord Belfast's race winning yacht that saw success at the first regatta at Cowes in 1826. The career of Nicholas Matthew Condy, who attracted the early admiration of the Earl of Egremont, J.M.W. Turner’s patron, was sadly cut short by his premature death in 1851 aged just thirty-two.

Stock Number KA-973