Oil paint on paper mounted on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-napier-hemy-248" aria-label="More by Charles Napier Hemy" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Charles Napier Hemy</a>
Pilchards
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1897
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: birds
animals: fish and aquatic life
boat, fishing
Cornwall
England
England, South West
England, Southern
fisherman / fisherwoman
fishing net
group
groups
man
Mount’s Bay
objects
people
pilchard
places
sea
seagull
seascapes and coasts
society
transport: water
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
work and occupations
<p>Hemy settled in Falmouth, Cornwall, in 1881, aiming to paint the sea and ships ‘always from nature’. Fishing by a long ‘seine’ net was a method thought to date from the time of Christ’s disciples. It involves paying out the seine net all round the shoal of pilchards, tying the ends, then dropping a smaller tuck net into the shoal and scooping up the fish in baskets. Hemy made studies of the process over fourteen years, but painted the picture in ten days.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint paper mounted canvas
13 July 2002 – 15 September 2002
2002-09-15
13 July 2002 – 15 September 2002
2002-09-15
2002-07-13
Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, UK)
2002-07-13
Gone Fishing
Loan-out
17 June 2006 – 9 September 2006
2006-09-09
17 June 2006 – 9 September 2006
2006-09-09
2006-06-17
Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, UK)
23 September 2006 – 19 November 2006
2006-11-19
2006-09-23
Ferens Art Gallery (Hull, UK)
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections
2 December 2006 – 27 January 2007
2007-01-27
2006-12-02
Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery (Sunderland, UK)
10 February 2007 – 14 April 2007
2007-04-14
2007-02-10
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum (Birkenhead, UK)
http://www.wirral.gov.uk/ed/Williamson.htm
2006-06-17
Master of the Sea: Charles Napier Hemy
Loan-out
11 December 2006 – 2 December 2007
2007-12-02
1 December 2006 – 2 December 2007
2007-12-02
2006-12-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
15 March 2008 – 7 June 2008
2008-06-07
2008-03-15
Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, UK)
2006-12-11
James Clarke Hook and Painters of the Sea
Collection based display
24 January 2013 – 14 April 2013
2013-04-14
24 January 2013 – 14 April 2013
2013-04-14
2013-01-24
Two Temple Place (London, UK)
2013-01-24
Amongst Heroes: the artist working in Cornwall 1880 - 1920
Loan-out
25 March 2017 – 17 June 2017
2017-06-17
25 March 2017 – 17 June 2017
2017-06-17
2017-03-25
Falmouth Art Gallery (Falmouth, UK)
2017-03-25
Artists Afloat
Loan-out
Pilchards
support: 1130 × 2121 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1897
<p>Hemy settled in Falmouth, Cornwall, in 1881, aiming to paint the sea and ships ‘always from nature’. Fishing by a long ‘seine’ net was a method thought to date from the time of Christ’s disciples. It involves paying out the seine net all round the shoal of pilchards, tying the ends, then dropping a smaller tuck net into the shoal and scooping up the fish in baskets. Hemy made studies of the process over fourteen years, but painted the picture in ten days. </p>

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adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: birds animals: fish and aquatic life boat, fishing Cornwall England England, Southern England, South West fisherman / fisherwoman fishing net group groups man Mount’s Bay objects people pilchard places sea seagull seascapes and coasts society transport: water UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features work and occupations