Charles Brooking
1723-1759 England/Baroque
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Brief Biography-Charles Brooking was from Deptford in Southeast London. Charles’s father was a painter who worked in Greenwich Hospital, although Charles junior was primarily self-taught. His prime source of influence was Dutch artists such as Willem van de Velde the Younger. However, his break in the art world was when Taylor White, a Fellow of the Royal Society and patron of the arts, commissioned work for the Foundling Hospital. He subsequently became one of England’s leading maritime painters. Amongst his students was the French marine artist Dominic Serres. |
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