Forteviot

Details

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850-1921)
Forteviot
Signed and dated A. Jacobsen 1896 lower right and inscribed New 31 Palisade Av West Hoboken NJ lower right
oil on canvas
30 x 50¼ in.

Provenance

Owen Gallery, New York
Schillay & Reh's, Inc., New York, 1987

Literature

Harold S. Sniffen, Antonio Jacobsen's Painted Oceans (Newport News, Virginia, 1994), fig. 101, p. 112.

Exhibited

New York, Schillay & Rehs, Inc., Antonio Jacobsen: 1870's, 1880's and 1890's, 21 January-11 February 1988.

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Lot Essay

This four-masted bark sailed for thirty-five years under a variety of names. Built in 1891 by W. H. Potter & Son for Marshall Macvicar in Liverpool, England, she became the Werner Vinner in 1910 when she was owned by E.C. Schramm in Breman, Germany, in 1915 she was sold to Houlder, Middleton Co., London, England and finally in 1925 she was renamed The Bellands of the Bell Line, Hull, England. This ship was one of the last owned by the Bell Line and she was dismantled by shipbreakers in 1926.

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