Sporting Life
Sporting Life
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Montague Dawson
R.S.M.A., R.F.S.A. The Downeaster-W.S. Babcock
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October 25, 02:25 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Montague Dawson
British
1895 - 1973
R.S.M.A., R.F.S.A. The Downeaster-W.S. Babcock
signed Montague Dawson (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 28 by 42 in.; 71.1 by 106.6 cm
framed: 34 by 48 in.; 86.3 by 121.9 cm
Commissioned by Robert I. Ingles, Jr.
Mrs. I. Ingles, Jr.
Private collection
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 9 June 1995, lot 218
Built in New England in 1860 and weighing an astonishing 2,000 tons, The Downeaster-W.S. Babcock, was considered one of the fastest clipper ships afloat at that time.
The painting was commissioned by Robert I. Ingles, an associate with the Ingles Shipbuilding Company of Alabama and Mississippi.