Édouard Adam, The Iron Barque Polestar In Full Sail

Édouard Adam, The Iron Barque Polestar In Full SailThis charming late 19th century oil painting by French artist douard Adam (1847 1929) depicts the Polestar, an iron barque, in full sail. Adam was a notable pierhead painter of marine portraiture. Built in 1858 by Samuelson of Hull, the Polestar was owned by Colesworth Lyne & Co. and traded between Liverpool and the west coast of both North and South America. It was later converted into a coal hulk for the Booth Line in Para, Brazil. Evidently, she

Anthony Dale or someone else

Produced during the mid 18th century

They’re alive

Frame with some cracks and a missing piece at the top but generally stable

she rests her right hand on a piece of sumptuous silver fabric

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often with a distinct vanishing point

The painting is monogrammed in the lower left and housed within a handsome Cassetta frame with corner ornamentation

His best-known collection bears the rather verbose title of “A choice collection of songs composed by Archdeacon Ryter (afterwards Bishop of Sodor and Mann)

but her legs are crossed while his are certainly not

“full of a vitality

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