Lot 9 · Maritime Art
A Royal Navy frigate and cutters drifting in a calm
Dominic Serres · pen and grey ink and watercolour, on paper
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- Estimate
- £1,000–£1,500 hammer ≈ $1,674–$2,511
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Maritime Art, London (South Kensington) · 5 June 2014
- Dimensions
- 11 ½ x 18 ¼ in. (29.2 x 46.4 cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4269509
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Dominic Serres, A Royal Navy frigate and cutters drifting in a calm. Christie's, 5 Jun 2014, lot 9. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4269509.
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Dominic Serres, A Royal Navy frigate and cutters drifting in a calm. Christie's, 5 Jun 2014, lot 9. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4269509.
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|---|---|---|---|
| The closing stages of one of the battles in the Anglo-Dutch Wars | François-étienne Musin | £8,000–£12,000 | |
| The Dutch armed merchantman T'Huyst Bloemendal, in three positions, i… | Johannes De Blaauw | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| A Dutch man-o'war and a smalschip off the Low Countries | Jacob Adriaensz. Bellevois | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| The Dutch fleet getting underway from their anchorage off Amsterdam | Jacob Adriaensz. Bellevois | £4,000–£6,000 | |
| The Bay of Cagliari, Sardinia; and The "gallant little Speedy " in pu… | Circle of John Thomas Serres (London 1759-1825) | £1,000–£1,500 | |
| View of Her Majesty's Ship Royal Sovereign | Thomas Baston | £4,000–£6,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Luny | Vessels in rough seas off the coast near Teignmouth, with th | $2,109 | Bonhams, Apr 2024 | |
| Thomas Luny | Sorting the day's catch | Bonhams, Apr 2023 | ||
| Thomas Luny | Coming ashore | Bonhams, Oct 2023 | ||
| John Wilson Carmichael | Fishermen off a coast | Bonhams, Apr 2026 | ||
| Thomas Luny | Coastal craft | Bonhams, Oct 2019 | ||
| William Anderson | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Sep 2023 | ||
| Thomas Buttersworth | Shipping in a light breeze | Bonhams, Sep 2022 | ||
| Dominic Serres | 'Calshot Castle at the mouth of Southampton River' | Bonhams, Oct 2017 |
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.