. Inglese: Un Ketch-Rigged Royal Yacht Close-Hauled sulle mura a dritta off Dover un ketch-truccate royal yacht è mostrato bolina sulle mura a dritta, in porto-bow view, battendo il canale di discesa nello Stretto di Dover. Il castello di Dover, città e scogliere sono a sinistra la distanza al di là di una fresa anche andando verso il basso-Channel e un galliot olandese pesca barca in primo piano. Quest'ultimo presenta net nell'acqua, con la sua trinchetta sollevato per mantenere una voce prendendo anche lei dalla barca di modo, pur senza alcun senso di urgenza. Un Royal Naval frigate del squadrone blu in direzione nord per il Downs, è a poppa o

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. English: A Ketch-Rigged Royal Yacht Close-Hauled on the Starboard Tack off Dover A ketch-rigged royal yacht is shown close-hauled on the starboard tack, in port-bow view, beating down Channel in the Strait of Dover. Dover Castle, town and cliffs are in the left distance beyond a cutter also going down-Channel, and a Dutch galliot fishing boat in the foreground. The latter has net in the water, with her foresail raised to keep a heading also taking her out of the yacht's way, though with no sense of urgency. A Royal Naval frigate of the blue squadron, heading north for the Downs, is astern of the yacht with another ship beyond flying the red ensign (as is the yacht) on the same course. Other vessels are in the distance. This is a relatively early work by Serres. It was purchased for the Museum in 1947 by Sir James Caird as by Charles Brooking (d. 1759) who is thought to have taught Serres - originally a French merchant sea captain - after he arrived in England as a prisoner of war in the 1740s. It shows Brooking's influence in terms of style - especially in the painting of the sea - as well as of van de Velde the younger, whose work Serres occasionally copied. The level of technical detail shown is exceptional. The yacht, for example, has a figurehead of a mounted classical horseman protected by metal guard-rails, as are the quarter figures at the stern, which are very rarely seen in paintings. The other decoration and elements of rigging are very precisely shown and the whole is populated with lively figures: an unconcerned fisherman smokes his pipe in the stern of the galliot and even on the distant cutter it is possible to see a blue-dressed man with a basket, suggesting it is a fishing smack or other merchant craft making passage. Dover town and castle are also accurately rendered in miniature. While Serres painted many ship portraits, his seas are rarely as lively as this, and soon developed a more characteristic manner. Taking a royal yacht as a subject was