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Lot 110

William Wilson Cowell
(1848-1910)
Ships at Sunset (probably Narragansett Bay)

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$3,328 inc. premium

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William Wilson Cowell (1848-1910)

Ships at Sunset (probably Narragansett Bay)
signed and dated 'W.W. Cowell 1876' (lower right); identified on a label from Comenos Fine Arts, Boston (affixed to the backing)
oil on canvas
26 x 42 in. (66.0 x 106.7 cm)
Painted in 1876.

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N.B.
A native of Boston, Cowell studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and worked primarily in the Adirondacks, the Hudson River area, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, and Marblehead, Massachusetts. Cowell moved to Chicago in 1895 - where his mother, Anna Cruise Cowell, had been a well-known actress - but remained active in the northeast's marine painting scene.

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