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Antonio Nicolo Gasparo JacobsenThe Screw-Steamer Westernland.1887
1887
$36,500
£27,841.75
€31,720.18
CA$51,301.08
A$55,968.12
CHF 29,634.78
MX$670,657.50
NOK 377,415.40
SEK 345,118.38
DKK 236,849.81
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Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen’s The Screw-Steamer Westernland captures the imposing presence and engineering prowess of this late 19th-century steamship. The vessel is depicted in motion, cutting through the waters with its towering masts and powerful steam funnel in full display. Jacobsen’s meticulous attention to detail brings the Westernland to life, from the carefully rendered hull and rigging to the soft ripples in the water reflecting the ship’s passage. The backdrop, a moody yet luminous sky, adds to the sense of movement and grandeur, emphasizing the ship’s role in the rapidly evolving maritime industry of the time.
Jacobsen, renowned for his precise and historically significant ship portraits, played a vital role in documenting the era’s most important vessels. His work on The Screw-Steamer Westernland exemplifies his ability to blend artistic finesse with technical accuracy, making his paintings invaluable both as historical records and as masterful works of art. His contributions to maritime painting ensured that the ships of his time would be immortalized with the same grandeur they once commanded on the open seas.
Provenance: Reference:
Antonio Jacobsen - The Checklist: Paintings and Sketches by Antonio N.G. Jacobsen (1850-1921) by Harold S. Sniffen (N.Y. and Newport News, Va.: The Mariners' Museum, 1984), p. 302.
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- Creator:Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850 - 1921, American)
- Creation Year:1887
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:Framed 26" x 40".Price: $36,500
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- Condition:This piece and the accompanying frame are in EXCELLENT Condition and deserve to be in the collection of an owner who truly appreciates them. We welcome all inquiries regarding design, construction, and condition.
- Gallery Location:Jacksonville, FL
- Reference Number:Seller: 274931stDibs: LU2595213678542
Jacobsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where he attended the Royal Academy of Design before heading across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in the United States in August 1873. He settled in West Hoboken, New Jersey (now Union City, New Jersey), across the Hudson River from Manhattan and New York Harbor, its port filled with ships from America and around the world. Jacobsen got his start painting pictures of ships on safes, and as his reputation grew, he was asked to do portraits of ships by their owners, captains and crew members, with many of his works selling for five dollars. Jacobsen painted more than 6,000 portraits of sail and steam vessels, making him "the most prolific of marine artists". Many of his commissions came from sea captains, and Jacobsen was chosen both for the accuracy of his work and his low fee. Exhibitions of Jacobsen's work include a 1996 showing of 45 of his paintings at the National Museum of American History. In 1995, the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia held an exhibition that included 80 paintings by Jacobsen. In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum published a volume by Harold S. Sniffen, the museum's curator emeritus, whose biography titled Antonio Jacobsen's Painted Ships on Painted Oceans, includes some 100 color pictures of the artist's ship paintings.
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