Lot 64: John Steven Dews (British, born 1949) Cutty Sark Entering The Thames River 24 x 36 in. (60.9 x 91.4 cm.)

John Steven Dews (British, born 1949)
Cutty Sark Entering The Thames River
signed lower left "J. Steven Dews"
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (60.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Footnotes

Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line. She was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development. Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the wool trade from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. The Cutty Sark was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895, and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman in 1922, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. In 1938 she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside H.M.S. Worcester. By 1954 she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London on public display.