Portrait of the steamship 'Schiedam' in choppy seas

Details

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (American, 1850-1921)
Portrait of the steamship 'Schiedam' in choppy seas
signed, dated, and inscribed 'Antonio Jacobsen NY 1878 257 8^th Ave. cor 2381' (lower right)
oil on canvas
55 x 90 cm.

Literature

Harold S. Sniffen, Curator Emeritus The Mariners' Museum, Antonio Jacobsen --The Checklist, Paintings and Sketches by Antonio N.G. Jacobsen 1850-1921, New York, 1984

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Lot Essay

Built by A. MacMillan & Son, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1874, the SCHIEDAM was registered at 2,236 tons and measured 94m. in lenght and had a 12m. beam. In 1876 a steady increase in inward freights took place. As a result, the SAN MARCOS was purchased by the NASM in 1877, and renamed SCHIEDAM.
She could carry 50 first class passengers and 200 steerage passengers and was in service with the NASM untill 1897.

Together with the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Elwin M. Eldredge a steamship historian and archivist of Brooklyn, compiled a checklist of known works by Antonio Jacobsen. On this list 'The Schiedam' is mentioned six times, but all from a later date. The present lot, created in 1878, is not yet mentioned on the list.

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