Bounty Passing Wapping London 1789 Tank Top

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Another small oval painting about 8 by 10 inches that has been cropped so that you can have it in print. It was painted for Wapping Historian and Author Madge Darby who wrote about Captain Bligh of the famous mutiny on the bounty and show his ship 'Bounty' passing Wapping with St Johns Church in the background. I painted it trying to depict how it would have been around 1789 when Captain Bligh would have been sailing on Bounty.


Wapping was originally a Saxon settlement, believed to be that of Waeppa's people, and although it is not known exactly where the original site of the village was, it is known that this area was marshland until the 16th century when it was drained. It then became rich meadow and garden ground until it was acquired for the London Docks. The docks brought with them thriving business and with that seafarers. Many of the seamen of Charles II's navy lived in Wapping, and Samuel Pepys, who was a regular in some of the local inns, often wrote of the dist...

MACKENZIE MOULTON ARTIST Mackenzie Moulton, born 21st June 1947 in Exeter, Devon, England. The first son of an English father and Scottish Mother and an Irish Grandfather. A result of which he has a deep Celtic origin. His talent recognised at an early age and a year before leaving school at 15, was invited to attend Exeter Art College at weekends to study Sculpture. Over the past 65 years he has concentrated on painting as opposed to sculpture and has Exhibited in London, Kent, Devon, Newcastle, Durham and Scotland in the UK and New York, El Paso, Dallas and Connecticut in the USA. and in Spain. Some of his paintings are on permanent display in the Thames Police Association Museum, News International and Custom House in London and the...

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