John (1712) Cleveley Paintings & Artwork for Sale | John (1712) Cleveley Art Value Price Guide

Jul. 09, 2024
John II Cleveley, British 1747-1786- Boats on the water, with Hurst Cast
Est: £400 - £600
John II Cleveley, British 1747-1786- Boats on the water, with Hurst Castle beyond; pen, black ink and grey wash on paper, signed 'John Cleveley Jun' (lower left), inscribed 'West Point of Yarmouth Road with Hurst Castle 30 Augt' and 'Needles 29 Augt' verso, 29.7 x 47.6 cm.
Roseberys
Oct. 25, 2022
John Cleveley the Elder (Southwark circa 1712-1777 Deptford) A peacetime fleet at anchor
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
John Cleveley the Elder (Southwark circa 1712-1777 Deptford) A peacetime fleet at anchor signed and dated 'J.Cleveley--1754' (lower left), further signed and dated 'J.Cleveley,del.1754.' (upper right) pen, ink and wash 27.6 x 77.2cm (10 7/8 x 30 3/8in).
Bonhams
Dec. 08, 2021
John Cleveley the Elder (Southwark circa 1712-1777 Deptford) The East Indiaman Alfred in three positions off St Helena
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
John Cleveley the Elder (Southwark circa 1712-1777 Deptford) The East Indiaman Alfred in three positions off St Helena signed and dated 'J Cleveley Pinx 1772' (lower left) oil on canvas 77.5 x 147.3cm (30 1/2 x 58in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Oct. 06, 2021
John Cleveley the Elder (Southwark circa 1712-1777 Deptford) The East Indiaman Alfred in three positions off St Helena
Est: £40,000 - £60,000
John Cleveley the Elder (Southwark circa 1712-1777 Deptford) The East Indiaman Alfred in three positions off St Helena signed and dated 'J Cleveley Pinx 1772' (lower left) oil on canvas 77.5 x 147.3cm (30 1/2 x 58in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Jul. 04, 2019
John Cleveley, the Elder (Southwark, London c. 1712-c. 1792) The Adams shipyard from the Isle of Dogs, with His Majesty’s new frigate... oil on canvas 35 ¼ x 59 1/8 in. (89.5 x 150.2 cm.)
Est: £120,000 - £180,000
John Cleveley, the Elder (Southwark, London c. 1712-c. 1792) The Adams shipyard from the Isle of Dogs, with His Majesty’s new frigate Ambuscade ‘on the stocks’, dressed with flags and ready for launching, 17 September 1773 signed and dated 'Jn Cleveley Pix. 1774' (lower left) oil on canvas 35 ¼ x 59 1/8 in. (89.5 x 150.2 cm.)
Christie's
Mar. 07, 2019
* Attributed to John Cleveley (c.1712-1777). Marine Landscape of Naval ships approaching Greenwich Dockyard, mid/late 18th century,
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
oil on canvas showing Naval ships at sail on the Thames at Greenwich with rowing boats in the foreground, relined, some crazing to paint surface, areas of discreet retouching and light overall toning, 66 x 91.5cm (26 x 36ins), 19th century gilt moulded frame - Quantity (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Oct. 17, 2018
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER (SOUTHWARK CIRCA 1712-1777 DEPTFORD) H.M.S. Try
Est: £60,000 - £80,000
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER (SOUTHWARK CIRCA 1712-1777 DEPTFORD) H.M.S. Tryall in three positions off Antigua strengthened signature and date ‘I. Cleveley PinxP 1764.’ (lower left) oil on canvas 89.5 x 134cm (35 1/4 x 52 3/4in).
Bonhams
May. 22, 2018
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER | The yacht Royal Charlotte in two positions off the coast
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Feb. 01, 2018
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER | Deptford Shipyard, London
Est: $300,000 - $500,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Nov. 08, 2017
John Cleveley the Elder (1712-1777) - Two 32-gun Frigates receiving their Captains
Est: £30,000 - £50,000
Oil on canvas Signed and dated J. Cleveley Pinx/1768 , lower left 88 x 117 cm. (35 x 46 1/2 in.) Provenance : Thought to be acquired by Junius S. Morgan Jr., Locust Valley, New York Thence by descent to John Pierpont Morgan II Sale. Sotheby's New York, Important Old Master Paintings, 27th January 2006, lot 202 (sold for 96,000 USD incl. premium) with Mallet, London Private collection, Europe From whom purchased by Mallett. Born at Southwark on the southern side of the River Thames in London. John Cleveley was the son of a joiner. He started his working life apprenticed to another joiner in 1726, and worked as a young man in the Royal Dockyard at Deptford - as did his twin sons, John the Younger (1747-86) and Robert (1747-1809) whose paintings are sometimes confused with their father's. His third son, James, was ship's carpenter on the Resolution during Cook's last Pacific voyage between 1776 and 1780. Through his work in the dockyards, Cleveley gained an intimate knowledge of contemporary ships and their equipment, and likely was influenced by the dockyard painters who decorated the sides of ships. From the late 1740s he painted a series of ship-launches and dockyard scenes at Deptford, where he spent most of his life and where he died, maintaining his career as a craftsman throughout his life. He also established himself as a painter of ship-portraits and other maritime scenes, including a few commissions showing naval engagements. The ships portrayed in the present painting are 32-gun frigates (5th rates). They took their design from the French ship 'The Renomme' which had been captured in 1747, and which started a trend in cruiser design.
Dreweatts 1759
Jan. 26, 2017
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER | The yacht Royal Charlotte in two positions off the coast
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Dec. 08, 2016
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER | Shipping off a coast, with one flying the royal standard, another with a vice admiral of the red, another with a rear admiral of the blue
Est: £40,000 - £60,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Apr. 28, 2016
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER | H.M.S. Amazon and H.M.S. Caroline in a stiff breeze off the Nore
Est: £30,000 - £50,000
oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Oct. 07, 2015
John Cleveley (British c. 1712-1777) Brigantines, Dutch smalschips and other shipping off the coast in breezy weather
Est: -
John Cleveley (British c. 1712-1777) Brigantines, Dutch smalschips and other shipping off the coast in breezy weather
Bonhams
Mar. 25, 2015
John Cleveley the Elder (1712-1777) - Two 32-gun Frigates receiving their Captains
Est: £70,000 - £100,000
Oil on canvas Signed and dated J. Cleveley Pinx/1768 lower left 88 x 117 cm. (35 x 46 1/2 in) Provenance: Thought to be acquired by Junius S. Morgan Jr., Locust Valley, New York; Thence by descent to John Pierpont Morgan II; Sale. Sotheby's New York, Important Old Master Paintings, 27th January 2006, lot 202 (sold for 96,000 USD incl. premium); Mallet, London; Private collection, Europe; from whom purchased by Mallett. Born at Southwark on the southern side of the River Thames in London. John Cleveley was the son of a joiner. He started his working life apprenticed to another joiner in 1726, and worked as a young man in the Royal Dockyard at Deptford - as did his twin sons, John the Younger (1747-86) and Robert (1747-1809) whose paintings are sometimes confused with their father's. His third son, James, was ship's carpenter on the Resolution during Cook's last Pacific voyage between 1776 and 1780. Through his work in the dockyards, Cleveley gained an intimate knowledge of contemporary ships and their equipment, and likely was influenced by the dockyard painters who decorated the sides of ships. From the late 1740s he painted a series of ship-launches and dockyard scenes at Deptford, where he spent most of his life and where he died, maintaining his career as a craftsman throughout his life. He also established himself as a painter of ship-portraits and other maritime scenes, including a few commissions showing naval engagements. The ships portrayed in the present painting are 32-gun frigates (5th rates). They took their design from the French ship 'The Renomme' which had been captured in 1747, and which started a trend in cruiser design.
Dreweatts 1759
Oct. 29, 2013
John Cleveley, (1712-1777), bottega di "Battaglie navali"
Est: €12,000 - €15,000
John Cleveley, (1712-1777), bottega di "Battaglie navali" quattro dipinti ad olio su tela cm 48x70
Cambi Casa d'Aste
Sep. 02, 2012
Framed JOHN CLEVELEY print 'The Royal George at
Est: $30 - $45
Framed JOHN CLEVELEY print 'The Royal George at Deptford' Please Note: ACTUAL LOT NUMBER [ A14 ]
John Williams Auctions
Apr. 16, 2012
CLEVELEY, JOHN. c.1712-1777. Original sketch of a British 72-gun, 3rd rate ship of the line,
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Original sketch of a British 72-gun, 3rd rate ship of the line, possibly HMS Devonshire, watercolor on paper, 127 x 190 mm, signed lower left in pencil ("J. Cleveley"), framed.
Bonhams
Mar. 14, 2012
John Cleveley (British, circa 1712-1777) 'Teneriff' (sic)
Est: £800 - £1,200
'Teneriff' (sic) signed 'J. Cleveley' (lower left), inscribed with title on mount pen, ink and watercolour 19 x 26.4cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/8in).
Bonhams
Dec. 08, 2011
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER
Est: £50,000 - £70,000
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE SOUTHWARK, LONDON 1712 - 1777 AN ENGLISH FRIGATE UNDER SAIL FIRING A GUN, WITH SHIPPING AT ANCHOR AND UNDER SAIL oil on canvas 91 by 196 cm.; 35 3/4 by 77 1/4 in.
Sotheby's
Nov. 24, 2011
Attributed to John Cleveley, the Elder (Southwark c.1712-1777)
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
Attributed to John Cleveley, the Elder (Southwark c.1712-1777) A twenty-four gun Sixth Rate of the Royal Navy in three positions off a dockyard pen and black ink and grey wash, on paper, on three sheets 21 x 52½ in. (53.4 x 133.4 cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 13, 2011
John Cleveley (British, circa 1712-1777) 'Plymouth'
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
'Plymouth' signed 'J. Cleveley' (lower left), inscribed with title on mount pen, ink and watercolour 18.8 x 26.5cm (7 3/8 x 10 7/16in).
Bonhams
Sep. 13, 2011
John Cleveley (British, circa 1712-1777) 'Teneriff' (sic)
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
'Teneriff' (sic) signed 'J. Cleveley' (lower left), inscribed with title on mount pen, ink and watercolour 19 x 26.4cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/8in).
Bonhams
Jul. 08, 2010
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER
Est: £30,000 - £50,000
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER SOUTHWARK, LONDON 1712 - 1777 AN EAST INDIAMAN IN THREE POSITIONS Signed lower left: I Cleveley Oil on canvas 124 by 152.5cm.; 50 by 60in.
Sotheby's
Feb. 13, 2010
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER, ATTRIBUTED (1712-1777) Dutch harbor scene, watercolor, unsigned. Contained in custom parcel gilt frame under museum glass by A.P.F. Master Framemakers, NY. Condition: no visible defects. Dimensions: 10 1/4'' X 15'', frame 14
Est: $600 - $900
JOHN CLEVELEY THE ELDER, ATTRIBUTED (1712-1777) Dutch harbor scene, watercolor, unsigned. Contained in custom parcel gilt frame under museum glass by A.P.F. Master Framemakers, NY. Condition: no visible defects. Dimensions: 10 1/4'' X 15'', frame 14 3/4'' X 19 1/2''. Provenance: Collection of Graham Shearing.
Dargate Auction Galleries
Feb. 19, 2008
John Cleveley (British, circa 1712-1777) Dutch merchantmen and smaller coastal craft in a heavy swell 64.6 x 105.3 cm. (25½ x 41½ in.)
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
Dutch merchantmen and smaller coastal craft in a heavy swell signed with initials and dated 'J.C. 1761' (on barrel, lower right) oil on canvas, en grisaille 64.6 x 105.3 cm. (25½ x 41½ in.)
Bonhams
Oct. 31, 2007
John Cleveley (Southwark circa 1712-1777 Deptford) Dutch shipping in choppy seas 64.6 x 105.3 cm. (25½ x 41½ in.)
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
Dutch shipping in choppy seas signed with initials and dated 'J.C. 1761' (on barrel, lower right) oil on canvas, en grisaille 64.6 x 105.3 cm. (25½ x 41½ in.)
Bonhams
May. 16, 2007
The Luxborough Galley on fire
Est: £800 - £1,200
John Cleveley, the Elder (c.1712-1777) The Luxborough Galley on fire signed with initials and dated 'J C 1759' (lower left) oil on canvas, unframed 20 x 25 in. (50.8 x 63.5 cm.)
Christie's
May. 25, 2006
John Cleveley, the Elder (c.1712-1777)
Est: £3,000 - £4,000
A light breeze off Sheerness signed 'Jn Cleveley' (lower left) pen and brown ink and watercolour 10 x 14 3/4 in. (25.5 x 37.5 cm.)
Christie's
Feb. 28, 2006
John Cleveley the Elder (British, c.1712-1777)
Est: -
A flagship arriving in port with other men-o'war offshore signed 'I. Cleveley' and dated 1771 (lower left) oil on canvas 59 x 76.2cm. (23 1/4 x 30in.)
Bonhams
Oct. 31, 2002
John Cleveley, the Elder (c.1712-1777)
Est: $23,250 - $38,750
The Luxborough Galley on fire, 25 th June 1727; The Luxborough Galley burnt to the water; The yawl of the Luxborough Galley ; The yawl with lowered sail, in preparation for a storm; and The yawl of the Luxborough Galley arriving amongst fishing boats off Newfoundland, 7 th July, 1727 three signed with initials and dated 'J.C. 1759' (lower left) oil on canvas 191/2 x 251/2 in. (50 x 65 cm.) a set of five (5) NOTES This fascinating set of five paintings by John Cleveley the Elder depicts the dramatic loss (by fire, in the North Atlantic) of the Luxborough Galley on 25 th June 1727 and the subsequent nightmarish voyage of the survivors, in the ship's yawl, to Newfoundland where they arrived in an exhausted state on 7 th July. The whole sequence of events was carefully recorded in a diary kept by the ship's surgeon Thomas Scrimsour, himself one of the survivors, which includes a particularly harrowing and gruesome account of the cannibalism to which the survivors were reduced in order to keep themselves alive pending their deliverance. A similar set of six paintings, including an additional work showing "the Luxborough Galley burnt nearly to the water", dated 1760 was once in the Greenwich Hospital Collection and is now held in the National Collection at Greenwich (see Concise Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the National Maritime Museum, page 125, nos. BHC 2385-9 and 2391). Four of the paintings are broadly similar to those offered here whilst the first in the sequence, showing the Luxborough Galley on fire, portrays a stern view of the stricken vessel compared to the bow view in this catalogue. Scrimsour's account of the disaster records the events that led to the fire. On 23 r d May 1727, the ship was set on a course from Jamaica. It was positioned in the latitude of 41.45 N and in the longitude of 20 E, off Crooked Island, when two ship's boys set fire to the Galley by putting a candle to a spillage on the deck which "burned some time before it was perceived, as the boys were too much intimidated to discover it themselves, having tried all possible means to distinguish [ sic ] the fire in vain." Fifteen men perished, the remainder hoisted out the ship's yawl and twenty-three men and boys escaped from the burning hulk." On the third day, viz the 28 th, as kind providence had hitherto wonderfully preserved us, we began to contrive means how to make a sail, which we did in the following manner. We took to pieces three men's frocks and a shirt, and with a sail-needle and twine, which we found in one of the black boy's pockets, we made shifts to sew them together which answered tolerably well." Having erected the makeshift sail on a broken oar that they found in the yawl, they set a course by the sun and the Captain's watch, heading north to Newfoundland. As the voyage progressed several members of the crew died, including the boy that started the fire. "The weather now proved so foggy that it deprived us all day of the sight of the sun, and of the moon and the stars by night. We tried frequently to halloo as loud as we could in the hopes of being heard by some ship. In the daytime our deluded fancies often imagined ships so plain to us, that we have halloo'd out to them a long time before we have been undeceived; and in the night by the same delusion, we thought we heard men talk, bells ringing, dogs bark, cocks crow etc." By the seventh day the numbers on the yawl had been reduced to twelve and a storm blew in from the east "and the sea running high, we scudded right before it with our small sail about half-down, expecting at every moment to be swallowed up by the waves." Of the twenty-three men and boys that escaped from the burning wreck, only seven were to survive and they did so by eating and drinking anything that came to hand, in the end having to resort to cannibalism. "At length we were obliged by inexpressible hunger and thirst, to eat parts of the bodies of six men, and drink the blood of four...a little food sufficing us, and finding the flesh very disagreeable we confined ourselves to the hearts only. Finding ourselves now perishing with thirst, we were reduced to the melancholy, distressful, horrid act, of cutting the throats of our companions an hour or two after they were dead, to procure their blood, which we caught in a pewter basin: each man producing about a quart." Rescue came on 7 th July when a group of fishing boats spotted the yawl off Newfoundland. The boat in which they had made their escape was only 15ft. long, 5ft. 3ins. broad and 2ft. 3ins. deep, and in this, they had covered a distance of 100 leagues (300 miles). After they had been rescued the Captain, who had been speechless for 36 hours, died, whereupon he was buried with all the honours that could be conferred upon him.
Christie's
Apr. 12, 1995
JOHN CLEVELEY (FL. 1726-1777) A BRITISH MAN OF WAR AND OTHER SHIPPING OFF THE COAST
Est: $9,531 - $12,708
signed l.l.: I Cleveley Pinx/1776 oil on canvas 49 by 54.5 cm.; 19 1/4 by 21 1/4 in.
Sotheby's