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| Keywords: The Schooner 'Edith' by Thomas Chidgey.jpg en Date Painted 1890 �1900 Oil on canvas 61 x 91 4 cm Collection Gloucester Museums Service Art Collection Oil on canvas painting of a full-rigged three-master schooner port side In the left background can be seen a line of cliffs a paddle steamer and small sailing vessels while on the right is a line of warships The 'Edith' traded regularly to Gloucester in the 1890s and was one of the vessels used in the salt trade She was a three-masted wooden schooner of 98 tons built at Padstow in 1865 She was a fairly frequent visitor to Gloucester and may at one time have been owned by a local ship-broker She was reportedly destroyed by fire in Glasgow in 1914 Photograph of original Capt Thomas Chidgey Born Watchet Somerset 1855 - 1926 Thomas Chidgey was from a long established Somerset based family involved in the coasting trade in Watchet during 1800-1926 He was sent to work at sea as a young boy and in his spare time taught himself how to paint His greatest joy was to paint a portrait of a ship at sea in full sail After his marriage to Ms Wedlake he received four ships from his father-in-law as a wedding gift He later became the proud father of 6 children and continued to paint and to sail with his crew Capt Thomas Chidgey offered each ship owner the opportunity to own a painting of their own ship He never was paid a big commission for his work and sometimes would work for free if the owner supplied the canvass and pain As a result nearly all the unique sailing ships found in Watchet harbour were portrayed on canvas Thomas Chidgey's ability to illustrate all the intricate rigging and sail structure of the various craft was due to not only his skill as a painter but from first hand knowledge as a sea captain His colourful collection of schooners ketches and smacks provide a valuable record of the ships that worked in Watchet Harbour during the latter part of 19th Century He also captured on canvass some of the important historical events such as the Great Storm of 1900 that wiped out the Watchet Harbour and destroyed many ships 1890 �1900 PD-Old Schooners Ships under sail Gloucester City Museum 19th-century sailing ships in paintings 1890s paintings Template artwork possible | ||||
