Live Auction 2899American Art
Mary Blood Mellen (1817-1882)
Lot 123 Property of an Arizona Private Collection

Mary Blood Mellen (1817-1882)

Ship at Sea

Closed19 November 2014

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USD 37,500

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Mary Blood Mellen (1817-1882)
Ship at Sea
signed 'M.B. Mellen' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.)

Private collection, Arizona.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

In the present work Mary Mellen captures the same scene her mentor Fitz Henry Lane painted in his A Storm, Breaking Away, Vessel Slipping Her Cable (1858, Private collection).