# Trying to find painting of people relaxing on a yacht under a canopy of flags **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004 "2016-01-23T19:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/1 "2016-01-23T19:22:26Z")
Saw it some years ago but can’t find it now using Google Images. It’s from the late 1800s or early 1900s, I believe; looks like it might be by John Singer Sargent but I don’t think it actually is. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/2 "2016-01-23T22:18:59Z")
Could it be [Regattas at Molesey](http://www.oilpaintingsgallery.com/gallery/oil-painting/item-LA-0355-KA--Sisley __Alfred__ France_1839_to_1899-Landscape-Regattas_at_.asp) by Alfred Sisely? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/3 "2016-01-24T04:15:35Z")
No, but thanks - the one I have in mind shows some folks lounging on the deck of the yacht, with the flags overhead. The brushwork is much more precise than Sisely’s. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/4 "2016-01-24T04:16:15Z")
_[Ball on Shipboard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tissot#/media/File:Ballonshipboard_jamestissot_1874.jpg)_, by James Tissot? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/5 "2016-01-24T04:53:28Z")
Hmm. That looks very much like it, although I remembered there being fewer people, and the brushwork had more of an Impressionist feel to it. May I ask how you knew of that painting? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/6 "2016-01-24T05:39:33Z")
Prof. Pepperwinkle used Tissot in a Botticelli game a few months ago. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Henga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Henga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henga)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/7 "2016-01-24T15:42:27Z")
Look for paintings by Bernard Finnigan Gribble. He was born in the 1870s and lived into the 1960s and spent his life painting mostly maritime scenes. From what I’ve seen of his work it has a blurry style that reminds me of impressionism. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/8 "2016-01-25T01:48:47Z")
Thanks. I checked Gribble on Google Images and came up with nothing like I was thinking of, but did find this great World War I destroyer picture, “The Return of the _Mayflower_,” I remember from many years ago. It is (or has been) displayed at the Pentagon in the office suite of the Secretary of the Navy: [http://herreshoff.org/programs/lecture\_series\_67\_3034456882.jpg](http://herreshoff.org/programs/lecture_series_67_3034456882.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Henga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Henga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henga)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-painting-of-people-relaxing-on-a-yacht-under-a-canopy-of-flags/744004/9 "2016-01-25T15:32:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Thanks. I checked Gribble on Google Images and came up with nothing like I was thinking of, but did find this great World War I destroyer picture, “The Return of the _Mayflower_,” I remember from many years ago. It is (or has been) displayed at the Pentagon in the office suite of the Secretary of the Navy: [http://herreshoff.org/programs/lecture\_series\_67\_3034456882.jpg](http://herreshoff.org/programs/lecture_series_67_3034456882.jpg) Franklin D. Roosevelt was the original buyer of this painting and he’s the one who came up with the name according to Wikipedia. The painting was in the White House when FDR was president. I just recently learned of this painting and the artist when it was mentioned in Erik Larson’s book Dead Wake about the sinking of the Lusitania. The painting commemorates the arrival of the first U.S. Navy ships to combat the Germans’ U-boats.