#Luke Clennell

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Baggage Wagons in a Thunderstorm by Luke Clennell

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A Sailor Smoking a Pipe, by Luke Clennell (1781-1840, Scottish).

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Launch of the HMS Nelson at Woolwich Dockyard, engraving by Luke Clennell (1814). Collection of the London Metropolitan Archives. von tormentor4555

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Luke Clennell, Frost Fair on the River Thames, 1814.

1814 was the last year the River Thames frost fair was held in London. Since that time, the Thames has not frozen solid enough to hold the fair again.

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“Good heavens! Tom! are you back? then you must have deserted.”

“Very true,” replied Tom, sinking on a chair, “I swam on shore last night, and have made from Portsmouth to here since eight o' clock. I hardly need say that I am done up. Let me have something to drink, Jacob, pray.”

I went to the celleret and brought him some wine, of which he drank off a tumbler eagerly. During this, I was revolving in my mind the consequences which might arise from this hasty and imprudent step. “Tom,” said I, “do you know the consequences of desertion?”

“Yes,” replied he, gloomily, “but I could not help it; Mary told me, in her letter, that she would do all I wished, would accompany me abroad; she made all the amends she could, poor girl! and, by heavens, I could not leave her: and when I found myself fairly under weigh and there was no chance, I was almost mad; the wind baffled us at the Needles, and we anchored for the night; I slipped down the cable and swam on shore, and there's the whole story.”

— Frederick Marryat, Jacob Faithful

image: 'The Press-Gang', by artist Luke Clennell (1781-1840)

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 Baggage Wagons in a Thunderstorm, oil on canvas, 1815, by Luke Clennell, English wood engraver, artist, and printer. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

  Clennell was apprenticed to Thomas Bewick. Later in life, he suffered from a depressive mental illness which led to an early retirement from painting.

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Baggage Wagons in a Thunderstorm Luke Clennell (British, 1781-1840)

Oil on canvas, 78.1 x 119.4 cm, 1815. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

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The Press Gang by Luke Clennell