Trewithen The Wreck William Adolphus Knell, ? c.1850s Toggle Zoom in Zoom out caption William Adolphus Knell, The Wreck Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved) Share-icon Downloads Zoom in Details Country House Trewithen Title(s) The Wreck Date ? c.1850s Medium and support Oil on canvas Dimensions Overall height: 48 cm, Overall width: 75 cm Artist William Adolphus Knell (1801-1875) Catalogue Number TN60 Description William Adolphus Knell was a prolific painter of marine subjects. Born at Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wright, he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1825 and showed works there regularly, as well as at the British Institution and Society of British Artists. In 1841 Prince Albert purchased Knell’s painting of his arrival by steamer the previous year at Dover for his wedding to Queen Victoria (Kensington Palace, RCIN 407161). The journey, which took more than five hours in a gale-force wind, was depicted by Knell in suitably stormy weather. In 1847 he exhibited The Battle off Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 at Westminster Hall (Parliamentary Art Collection, WOA 3060). By the 1860s Knell was based in St Pancras, London. He died at his home in Kentish Town in 1875. His sons, William Calcott Knell (1830–1880) and Adolphus Knell (fl. 1860) were also marine painters. The depiction of shipwrecks and storm-tossed shipping featured prominently in Knell’s oeuvre, and the present picture can be compared with a similar composition in Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery, dating from 1856 (1952.86.3). by Martin Postle Related catalogue items from Trewithen Trewithen Christopher Hawkins Allan Ramsay Trewithen The Market Girl attributed to Henry Robert Morland, ? c.1770s Trewithen Figure on a Country Lane Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek
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