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Joseph Heard (Whitehaven 1799-1859 Liverpool)
Lot 113

Joseph Heard (Whitehaven 1799-1859 Liverpool)

The barque Humphrey Nelson flying her recognition flags as she passes a three-masted merchantman off a mid-ocean island

Closed12 June 2013

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GBP 3,250

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Joseph Heard (Whitehaven 1799-1859 Liverpool)
The barque Humphrey Nelson flying her recognition flags as she passes a three-masted merchantman off a mid-ocean island
signed and dated 'Jo Heard 1857' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 33 in. (63.5 x 83.8 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Robert C. Eldred, East Dennis, Massachusetts, 30 July 1999, lot 389.

Specialist note

The wooden barque Humphrey Nelson was built at Dundee in 1855 for Nelson & Co. of Maryport. Registered at 476 tons and measuring 134 feet in length with a 25 foot beam, she began her career sailing out of Liverpool under the command of her owner Captain P. Nelson. Within ten years however, she was trading out of London to China under Captain Chellew but disappears from record in the early 1870s.