Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2585BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 04, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
School of Thomas H. Willis (American, 1850-1925)
Portrait of the Bark Cassandra of Liverpool, D.S. Cromarty, Master. Unsigned, vessel indentified on hull and in inscriptions l.r. Oil, silk, silk threads, and velvet on canvas, 20 x 32 in., in a later gilt-gesso frame. Condition: Minor fraying to one sail, a few breaks in the rigging, fading to threads.
Estimate $1,500-2,500