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Charles Brooking is at the forefront of English marine painters, but since he died, aged thirty-six, in 1759, there was to be no recognition in his short life to justify his remarkable ability. He has probably produced the most atmospheric and beautiful marine paintings of all time. All his known pictures are illustrated and described in this much needed catalogue raisonné, together with all his known drawings and engravings. There is a chapter on eighteenth century London marine engravers written by James Taylor, a curator at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, London. The book also describes the Dutch marine painters in the seventeenth century and shows how the English school developed following the Van de Velde's work at Greenwich. The book contains biographies of the British marine painters of the eighteenth century, illustrated from private collections and from Greenwich.