Lot 193 · Maritime Art
Racing yachts battling for line honours as they approach the Royal Yacht Squadron line; and A schooner reaching in the Solent with the Needles astern (illustrated)
John Steven Dews · pencil, on paper, the second unframed
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- Estimate
- £1,500–£2,500 hammer ≈ $2,416–$4,026
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Maritime Art, London (South Kensington) · 29 April 1999
- Dimensions
- 11½ x 16½ in. (29.3 x 41.9 cm.); and Three unframed studies of clipper ships and various craft by the same hand (5)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4576937
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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John Steven Dews, Racing yachts battling for line honours as they approach the Royal Yacht Squadron line; and A schooner reaching in the Solent with the Needles astern (illustrated). Christie's, 29 Apr 1999, lot 193. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4576937.
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John Steven Dews, Racing yachts battling for line honours as they approach the Royal Yacht Squadron line; and A schooner reaching in the Solent with the Needles astern (illustrated). Christie's, 29 Apr 1999, lot 193. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4576937.
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From the same sale Maritime Art · Apr 1999
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warships and other shipping in a thunderstorm | François-étienne Musin | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| H.M.S. Dreadnought , the Seamen's Hospital ship, moored in the Thames… | William Collingwood Smith, Rws | £1,000–£1,500 | |
| Shipping in the Pool of London | Daniel Turner | £700–£1,000 | |
| The Colombian barquentine Zelia from Riohacha, making her numbers off… | William Howard Yorke | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| Captain James Cook (1728-79) | Cook, James. 1728-1779. | £1,200–£1,800 | |
| An English galliot close in to the shore with an English flagship fir… | After Willem van de Velde II | £1,000–£1,500 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Steven Dews | 'Norwegian barque "Petrellen", Mounts Bay 1883' | $5,017 | Bonhams, May 2020 | |
| John Wilson Carmichael | Fishing boats and shipping in a fresh breeze | Bonhams, Apr 2023 | ||
| Henry Scott | The American Clipper Black Hawk | Lyon & Turnbull, Sep 2021 | ||
| William Lionel Wyllie, Ra | Launching Day at Portsmouth – the new dreadnought floating f | Bonhams, Oct 2024 | ||
| John Steven Dews | Meteor IV racing in the Solent | Christie's, Oct 2008 | ||
| John Wilson Carmichael | 'A calm' | Bonhams, Apr 2022 | ||
| John Steven Dews | A Sailboat in the Arctic | Sotheby's, Jan 2017 | ||
| William Lionel Wyllie, Ra | Launching a fishing boat, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France | Bonhams, Apr 2016 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.