Details
John Wilson Carmichael (1800-1868)
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signed and dated 'J.W.Carmichael/1854'
oil on canvas
40 x 66in. (101.5 x 168cm.)
Provenance
Ventura County Maritime Museum, Channel Islands Harbour, Oxnard, California
Formerly in the Collection of Boothe Tarkington, the distinguished American author and playwright
The Kennebunkport Marine Museum, Maine, U.S.A.
Literature
Diana Villar, John Wilson Carmichael, pages 72 & 73. Published in 1995
The Art Journal of 1st June 1854 describes it thus "......among all the nautical pictures of our time, we have never seen vessels so well set in the water"
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1854, No. 4
Engraved
