Attributed to Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman (Massachusetts, 1830-1904) Representation of the Bark Cadet

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Attributed to Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman (Massachusetts, 1830-1904)

Representation of the Bark Cadet. c. 1850. Indistinctly signed l.r. and signed in pencil on the stretcher "Tuckerman for." Oil on canvas, identified on the pennant flag and the forward starboard side of the hull near the bowsprit as it sailed carrying an American flag off its stern before Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 18 x 30 in., unframed.

Condition: Craquelure, minor paint loss and varnish discoloration.

Note: Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman was born in Boston in 1830. He was a pupil of Boston artist William Morris Hunt. While in England, he studied drawing and returned to Boston to lead the New England School of Design. He taught drawing in Boston from 1861-64. After 1874 he spent much time in Europe. Two of his paintings are part of the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Bostonia Society in Boston.

Note: The Cadet was known as an "opium vessel." Here, she is pictured in Gloucester Harbor off Ten Pound Island which is similar to a painting of the Cadet by Fitz Hugh Lane illustrated in the book Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane, by John Wilmerding, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Abrams, 1988, figure 10. In this painting, Tuckerman explores the compositional and Luminist style of Lane.
Estimate $4,000-6,000

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