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Oil on canvas (lined), circa 1900, unsigned, inscribed "Lyndhurt" at lower center, presented in a later appropriate frame.
SS 17 x 22.75 in.; DOA 24.5 x 30 in.
From the Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Trumbull, Hillsborough, NC Quester Gallery, Stonington, CT (accompanied by the original receipt dated July 7, 1992)
The "Lyndhurst" was a four-masted steel barque built in 1886 and sold to the Anglo-American Oil Company in 1899. On August 21, 1911, she suffered a large explosion and was sunk by gunfire near Mossel Bay in South Africa three days later.
Stable craquelure with associated re-touch.
$1,000 - 3,000