Lot 6040
  • 6040

Robert Salmon (1775 - c. 1845)

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Salmon
  • Calm & Sunset, Shipping; Tynemouth Point and Boat
  • inscribed No. 651/Painted by R. Salmon/Boston on the reverse
  • oil on panel
  • 16 1/4 by 25 3/4 in.
inscribed No. 651/Painted by R. Salmon/Boston on the reverse

Provenance

Tayloe Collection;
Mrs. Price, Troy, New York;
Mrs. L. Grow;
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1969;
Marine Arts, Salem, Massachusetts, 1971;
Acquired by the present owner before 1977.

Literature

John Wilmerding, Robert Salmon: Painter of Ship and Shore, Boston, Massachusetts, 1971, no. 651, p. 91 (as Calm and Sun Sett, Shipping; Tinemouth Point and Boat).

Condition

There are several discolored dots of inpainting in the sky and frame abrasion at all 4 edges. Under UV: there are small specks of inpainting in the sky, the rock at left, the water and the boat at right. The work retains an old varnish.
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