Museums' Exhibitions
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Objects in the Nottage Museum.
Index
Introduction
Having been founded as a school for mariners, the Nottage began to recieve gifts from local residents and businesses. At first these were navigational instruments, books on navigation and seamanship, and the ship half models which had been used by local shipyards. Later other items of maritime or local interest were acquired.
As this collection grew, the donations placed on display gradually took on the form of a small museum. This museum is now open to the public during the Summer months when the classes are in reccess.
Objects in the Nottage Museum.
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Pierhead Paintings.
Pierhead Painting is the name given to a style of ship portrait painting. These paintings were done to the order of the owner, master or some other crew member or passenger and were painted while the vessel was in port. As the stay in a port might have been quite brief they were rather stylised but, as they were mostly for professional seafarers, they were generally very accurate in technical details.
Often the backgrounds would have been prepared at some slack period before the order taken. Several pierhead painters worked in the Naples area and Mount Vesuvius may often be seen in the background, as in the example of the schooner Caroline Brown.
The Nottage has about two dozen paintings of this style depicting large steam yachts, sailing yachts and small coastal traders.
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Exhibition: Objects in the Nottage Museum.
Yachting and the Nottage.
This page is part of the Online Exhibition(s): Objects in the Nottage Museum.