The Beautiman/Beautyman mariners and whalers and their ships

The Beautiman (or Beautyman) family of Northumberland enter my family tree in 1834 with the marriage of Margaret BEAUTYMAN to Wrightson GIBSON in St Hilda's Church, South Shields. Margaret and Wrightson are my 4xgreat-grandparents. Margaret was baptised in 1810 in Tynemouth, daughter of Cuthbert BEAUTYMAN and his wife Margaret (SHORT).  A few years ago, a contact via this MyRoots blog, Maureen, provided a wealth of information on Cuthbert and his father and brothers , variously mariners, whalers and Customs Officers.  This year another contact, Lesley, has filled in more gaps.  With my own researches, including finding Benjamin BEAUTYMAN's will at TNA, I now have a small collection about their seafaring life.  Whilst I am still trying to unpick discrepancies in baptism dates (or perhaps just a plethora of Williams and Cuthberts in the various branches of the family), it seems that two brothers called William and Cuthbert BEAUTYMAN bought two boats called 'The British Queen' and 'The Grenville Bay'. Both Maureen and Lesley point to a painting in the Torre Abbey Museum in Torbay, Devon by John Wilson CARMICHAEL, apparently commissioned by William's son and called 'Whalers entering the Tyne'.  Both provided a photo of the painting and an excerpt about it from the Museum's catalogue:

WHALERS ENTERING THE TYNE

John Wilson CARMICHAEL

Oil on Canvas (74cmx123.5cm). Torre Abbey Museum, Torbay, Devon

A Newcastle marine painter, Carmichael was the friend and pupil of T M Richardson, senior. He exhibited at
the Northern Academy of Arts in Blackett Street, Newcastle, which was next door to his studio and his paintings are mostly set in the North East of England.

The sight of whaling ships in the Tyne was commonplace throughout the 18th & 19th centuries.

This painting was thought to commemorate the whaling careers of the Beautyman brothers. Cuthbert was a Tyneside whaler Captain during the early 1800s, and from 1821-1830 was Master
of a French whaler operating out of Dieppe. His brother, William was also a whaler Captain, principally at Hull in the 1790s. In 1816, the brothers
undertook a joint venture, and this picture is thought to depict the two whalers returning to the Tyne after their voyage.

“The Grenville Bay” in the foreground was commanded by William, while the “British Queen” was commanded by
Cuthbert. The event would have been remembered with pride by William Beautyman, junior, who was first mate of his
Uncle’s “British Queen”, and who may have commissioned this painting some years later."