Calm at the Mouth of the Scheldt

Artist Paul Jean Clays (Bruges, Belgium, 1819 - 1900)

Date1868

Mediumoil on panel

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 41.5 cm, Width: 63 cm
Frame: Height: 74.5 cm, Width: 96.5 cm

AcquisitionAlexander Macdonald Bequest, 1901.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG002867

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About MeHaving been introduced to Clays' work by his friend John Forbes White Aberdonian art collector Alexander Macdonald purchased this painting from Clays in March 1868.

One of Belgium’s most important marine painters, as a youth Clays had signed on as a ship-boy and spent a number of years at sea - he once told White that he consequently knew the Scottish coastline well, "from Berwick to Sumburgh Head". In 1856 he, and his family, moved to Brussels and it was from this point that he specialized in scenes along the Scheldt.

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Clays was a Belgian marine painter, serving years at sea as a youth and eventually specialising in scenes along the Schelt (Schelde), the river which flow past Antwerp