1020. (painting) Packet Ship Blackball Line in Storm in the Style of John Hughes (British 1806-1880)
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1020. (painting) Packet Ship Blackball Line in Storm in the Style of John Hughes (British 1806-1880)
- (painting) Packet Ship Blackball Line in Storm in the Style of John Hughes (British 1806-1880). Vessel may be the packet ship “Isaac Webb” of the Black Ball Line. Built at New York by William H. Webb and launched in 1851, the “Isaac Webb” was a pioneer of packet service between New York and Liverpool. A self-taught artist of the Liverpool School, John Hughes was born in that seafaring town in 1806. He was a very competent marine painter, the majority of whose works were done for export to America. Hughes acquired a sizeable reputation with American sea captains and he developed particularly good contacts with the visiting American ships. His paintings also generated many favorable reviews in the local Liverpool press, adding to his growing reputation. The Black Ball Line was the most famous of New York’s packet firms. The Black Ball ships carried a large painted black ball below the close-reef band in their foretop-sails. Painting is oil on canvas 18” x 26”, on original wood stretcher in original gilded wood frame. Also bears some similarity to works by Clement Drew (1806-1889) or possibly Samuel Walters (1811-1882). $9,400.