H.E. STEPHENS (19TH/20TH CENTURY BRITISH SCHOOL)

H.M.S. 'Aboukir’ [1900-1914]

Oil on canvas

Signed and dated 'H.E. Stephens 1902' (lower left)

19½ x 29½in. (49.5 x 75cm.)

This picture depicts Aboukir in her smart Victorian livery of red below the waterline, black topsides and buff funnels - the Royal Navy adopted battleship grey from 1902. Aboukir was like her sister Cressy in the previous lot, one of the three cruisers lost in a single September morning in 1914 to the torpedoes of U-9.

Condition Report

fine overall condition

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