The steam-packets âLionâ and âCalderâ of Selby off Goole
Griffin was apprenticed to Thomas Meggitt, a house painter in Hull with a side-line in pictures. This is one of many works Griffin painted for T. Meggitt & Co. It depicts the âLionâ, built in Hull in 1834 and sold abroad the following year. Griffinâs pictures are largely derivative, showing passages identically cribbed from his fellow apprentices and other artists associated with the Hull School of marine painting.
