THE WINDJAMMER PASSAT NEAR TOWER BRIDGE CIRCA 1930. In Gallery / LONDON'S RIVER

THE WINDJAMMER PASSAT NEAR TOWER BRIDGE CIRCA 1930.

The subject of the painting is, in one sense the last days of sail, in another, it is the luminosity that can pervade a river scene at evening.

The Passat was one of a series of P-sailing ships all built by Blom and Voss at Hamburg between 1916 and 1920. These large, mostly four masted ...