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The photograph below shows a group which includes (on the left) the Looe painter Lindsay Symington, who was a model for the painter Henry Scott Tuke (seated with hat and moustache). I know Tuke's family were involved with the company who made the wine. I would love Symington to be so related to the well-known family of British BOB port producers (oh and they make.. nearly everything else as well..)

Symington is the boy holding onto the boat in this painting by Tuke, August Blue, 1893-4, which is in the Tate collection.

You got that second picture off my iCloud and I'm going to sue. If me and a few friends want to spend some time relaxing in Cornwall with manly pursuits...

But seriously Daniel, thank you for posting this, even if it is only obliquely port related it is most interesting. And there is something rather louche about the group in the first photo, even the moustache is provocative.

Thank you. I knew it would stir your artistic interests.

I like to think they enjoyed some excellently manly old TH the night after the photo was taken, even if somewhat louchely.

It is interesting that there are so many sailing ships in the background given the date of 1893. But Maybe they were waiting for all the old sailing ships to wear out before buying newfangled ones with propellers and stovepipes.

I think this is somewhere near Falmouth. I believe these clippers and cutters etc were still common until early in the 20th century. But he may also have decided that these were more pleasing to his setting and left out the old tramps. As it were.