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Reefing the Mainsail

D. G. Bennett (active 20th C)

National Maritime Museum

Reefing the Mainsail

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This painting represents a deck view from the starboard quarter of a working early twentieth-century gaff-rigged ketch or schooner (lower sails only shown) beating to windward on the port tack in a heavy sea. Two crew members are shown on deck shortening sail, using roller-reefing, with sea coming inboard over the lee rail. It was presented to the Museum in 1966 by Basil Greenhill, who from the start of 1967 to 1983 was its third Director. Nothing more is currently known of the artist, though a John D. G. Bennett was a lay (non-exhibiting) member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists in the later 1980s.

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Title

Reefing the Mainsail

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 68.5 x W 53.5 cm

Accession number

BHC1537

Work type

Painting

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Artist or maker

D. G. Bennett

active 20th C

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