Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1850-1921 Hoboken, New Jersey)
Lot 37

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1850-1921 Hoboken, New Jersey)

The English snow Fairfield in heavy seas

Closed12 June 2013

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GBP 10,625

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Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1850-1921 Hoboken, New Jersey)
The English snow Fairfield in heavy seas
signed and dated 'A. Jacobsen 1889. N.Y.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 36 in. (55.8 x 91.4 cm.)

Specialist note

The wooden snow Fairfield was built at Aberdeen by Nicol Reid for J. Lumsden and launched on 19th March 1825. Registered at 248 tons gross and measuring 90 1/3 feet in length with a 25¼ foot beam, she began her career sailing out of London, under the command of J. Wark, with passages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. However, by 1828, she was trading out of Liverpool. Registered in London in 1834, under the ownership of Glendenning, she traded from London to Jamaica, but disappears from record in the early 1840s.