The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus
The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus
About Edward Seago (1910-1974)
Probably the best known of the late twentieth century landscape painters, he was an East Anglian artist by heritage and inclination. Without formal training he took private tuition from Bertram Priestman RA and was encouraged by the local celebrity, Sir Alfred Munnings. Munnings advice and contacts led to a lucrative early career in equestrian portraiture. Service during the second war led to his attachment to Field Marshall Alexander of Tunis to record the Italian Campaign. In peacetime Seago enjoyed a celebrity status in the London art world of the 1950s and 60s. His shows at Colnaghi’s enjoyed the previously unknown phenomenon of queues of excited buyers waiting for the doors to open. He was a great friend and favourite of the Royal Family, accompanying HRH Prince Philip on Britannia’s 1956 tour of the South the Antarctic, the south Atlantic and West Africa. As a result many of his paintings are held in the Royal Collection as well as the Guildhall Art Gallery, the Government Art Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, Pallant House and the Yale Centre for British Art amongst many others.
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The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus

£12,750

“In a conversation with Edward Sego in the 1960s, he told me that one of the most important reasons for his visit to Portugal was to see, and paint, the last fleet of sailing vessels which, each year, make the Atlantic crossing to fish on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.

All the vessels were schooners, except the Gazela, which was square-tigged on the fore-mast, probably the last of her kind at work in Europe.

She was built in Setubal in 1901 and retired from fishing in 1969. In 1971 she was bought for the Philadelphia Maritime Museum and serves as a sail-training and good-will ship.”

 Ian Houston

About Edward Seago (1910-1974)
Probably the best known of the late twentieth century landscape painters, he was an East Anglian artist by heritage and inclination. Without formal training he took private tuition from Bertram Priestman RA and was encouraged by the local celebrity, Sir Alfred Munnings. Munnings advice and contacts led to a lucrative early career in equestrian portraiture. Service during the second war led to his attachment to Field Marshall Alexander of Tunis to record the Italian Campaign. In peacetime Seago enjoyed a celebrity status in the London art world of the 1950s and 60s. His shows at Colnaghi’s enjoyed the previously unknown phenomenon of queues of excited buyers waiting for the doors to open. He was a great friend and favourite of the Royal Family, accompanying HRH Prince Philip on Britannia’s 1956 tour of the South the Antarctic, the south Atlantic and West Africa. As a result many of his paintings are held in the Royal Collection as well as the Guildhall Art Gallery, the Government Art Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, Pallant House and the Yale Centre for British Art amongst many others.
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