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Lot 28

Augustus Rockwell
(1822-1882)
A Ship Off a Steep Rocky Coast

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

US$5,000 - US$7,000

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Augustus Rockwell (1822-1882)

A Ship Off a Steep Rocky Coast
unsigned; in original frame with presentation plaque
oil on canvas
28 1/4 x 50 1/4 in. (71.8 x 127.6 cm)

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Provenance
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts, February 11, 2022, lot 519.
The present private collection.

N.B.
Little is known about the life of Augustus Rockwell, beyond that he lived and worked around Buffalo, New York, for most of his career. His landscapes display much of the same delicate light and precise brushwork of the Hudson River School artists, and he was also a well-known portraitist. The hazy, glowing light in the present work and its reflections on the ocean and rocks evoke the seascapes of Rockwell's contemporary Sanford Robinson Gifford, who was also working in New York at the time.

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