Samuel Walters (British, 1811-1882) The fully-rigged ship Inkerman, 1870 ????????
Samuel Walters (British, 1811-1882)
The fully-rigged ship Inkerman off the South Stack lighthouse, Anglesey, probably heading into Liverpool
oil on canvas
58 x 97cm (22 13/16 x 38 3/16in).
Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • PROVENANCE:
    with Colin Denny circa 1971
    Purchased from the above by the present owner

    LITERATURE:
    A. S. Davidson, Samuel Walters - Marine Artist, Coventry, 1992

    Named for the victorious Crimean War battle on 5th November 1854, the full-rigged Inkermann was built, probably as a speculation, in New Brunswick, Canada, and completed in 1855. Registered at 1,307 tons and measuring 214 feet in length with a 39 foot beam, she was purchased by Sinclair & Co. of Belfast and traded out of Liverpool under their colours until disappearing from record after 1870.

    This work, seemingly dated 1870, may have been commissioned to mark the vessel's retirement from the Sinclair fleet where she had spent the first twenty-five years of her career.

    We are grateful to Dr. Sam Davidson for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Category: Fine Art / Marine Art


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