19th Century European Art

19th Century European Art

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MONTAGUE DAWSON R.S.M.A., F.R.S.A. | THE PACKET DEVONSHIRE

Auction Closed

May 22, 03:43 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

MONTAGUE DAWSON R.S.M.A., F.R.S.A.

British

1895 - 1973

THE PACKET DEVONSHIRE 


signed MONTAGUE DAWSON. (lower left) 

oil on canvas laid down on board 

36 by 28 in.

91.4 by 71.1 cm

Frost & Reed, London, no. 6620 (acquired directly from the artist, July 17, 1936)

Frederick B. Wells, Sr., Lake of the Isles, Minnesota (by 1937)

Frederick B. Wells (by descent from the above)

Thomas Bucklin Wells (by descent from the above)

By descent from the above to the present owner in 2012

Minneapolis Institute of Art, probably November 1937-July 1940

The present work depicts the packet ship Devonshire. Named for the Duke of Devonshire, it was built in New York in 1848 by Westervelt & Mackey. The first packet ships were built in the eighteenth century and were designed to transport mail between Great Britain and her colonies, as well as passengers and freight. In her first year of frequent sailing between New York and London, Devonshire transported the largest number of cabin passengers ever to cross the Atlantic and garnered much attention as one of the finest examples of naval engineering (Holden's Dollar Magazine, New York, January 1848, vol. I, p. 571).