The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus Gold Silver & Bronze We are lucky enough to

We are lucky enough to have purchased a large collection from the artist’s estate some years ago so do visit our Spurrier page on the P & H website to learn more about this remarkable artist

This painting is in our Cecil Court gallery

painted from life in his St John’s Wood studio

Feliks Topolski RA (1907-1989)

Medium details: Pastel & collage on paper

The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus Gold Silver & Bronze We are lucky enough toIn a conversation with Edward Sego in the 1960s, he told me that one of the most important reasons for his visit to Portugal was to see, and paint, the last fleet of sailing vessels which, each year, make the Atlantic crossing to fish on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. All the vessels were schooners, except the Gazela, which was square tigged on the fore mast, probably the last of her kind at work in Europe. She was built in Setubal in 1901 and