Lot 62 · Maritime Art
A three-masted merchantman in a light breeze off Avonmouth, with a Royal Navy frigate anchored and drying her sails offshore
Joseph Walter · oil on canvas
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- Estimate
- £4,000–£6,000 hammer ≈ $6,419–$9,628
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Maritime Art, London · 29 October 2008
- Dimensions
- 18½ x 26 in. (47 x 66 cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5422069
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 5 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Joseph Walter, A three-masted merchantman in a light breeze off Avonmouth, with a Royal Navy frigate anchored and drying her sails offshore. Christie's, 29 Oct 2008, lot 62. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5422069.
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Joseph Walter, A three-masted merchantman in a light breeze off Avonmouth, with a Royal Navy frigate anchored and drying her sails offshore. Christie's, 29 Oct 2008, lot 62. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5422069.
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|---|---|---|---|
| An outward-bound merchantman passing Anglesey, with a Cunard steamer … | Joseph Heard | £10,000–£15,000 | |
| The visit of Peter the Great to Amsterdam, August-September, 1697 | Attributed to Abraham Jan Storck (Amsterdam 1644-1710 Amsterdam) | £25,000–£35,000 | |
| The Battle of Solebay, 28th May 1672; the English flagship Royal Prin… | Circle of Pieter Cornelisz Van Soest (fl. 1640-1667) | £5,000–£8,000 | |
| The burning of the French flagship Soleil Royal in Cherbourg Bay duri… | Studio of Willem van de Velde, the Younger (Leiden 1633-1707 London) | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| A detailed but fanciful study of the decorated stern of a seventeenth… | Dutch School, 18th Century | £1,500–£2,500 | |
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