Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2757BLocation: BostonDate / Time: October 26, 2014 10:00AM
Description:
William Pierce Stubbs (Massachusetts/Maine, 1842-1909)
Portrait of the Schooner Island Home. Signed "Stubbs" l.l. and dated "1871" l.r. Oil on board, showing the vessel sailing right to left, and a sandy bluff with white lighthouse off the starboard bow, 18 x 24 in. (sight),in a molded giltwood frame. Condition: Board bowed, scattered retouch.
Estimate $1,500-2,500
about 12 spots of retouch, including 3 or 4 to sails, others to background and at frame edges.
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