$35,550
American School, 19th Century Portrait of America's Cup Racing Yacht America with Distant Steamer and Shi Unsigned, vessel identified on the bow. Oil on canvas, the back of the canvas bears the stamp of a New York City artist supply firm "GOUPIL & CO./Artist's Colourmen/366 Broadway/New York," 22 x 30 in., in a period molded gilt-gesso frame. Condition: Minor minute paint losses in sky, sails, and water, craquelure, surface grime. Note: On August 22, 1851, the racing yacht America was the first to win the international sailing trophy now known as the America's Cup. She won by eighteen minutes in the Royal Yacht Squadron's 53-mile regatta around the Isle of Wight.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-03-04
