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The William Ashburner (c. 1892 Belgium)
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Signed/Inscribed/DatedHenry Loos Antwerp 1892
Dimensions40.25inch wide 30.25inch high (102.23 cm wide 76.83 cm high)
Literature
Loos, Henry (Belgian, 1871-1904) Apparently the younger son of John F. and brother of John, he produced a number of portraits of sailing vessels in a very smooth style and paid particular attention to the ships technical details. Quite often the vessel is depicted in sunny weather with the Belgian or Channel Coast in the background
The William Ashburner was a three-masted schooner, the largest wooden sailing vessel built at Barrow-in-Furness, and the only schooner built by the Ashburner shipyard that traded across the Atlantic or south of the Equator. In her first nineteen years, mainly under the command of Capt. Robert Charnley and Capt. Evans, she voyaged frequently to Uruguay for beef and bonemeal, to the West Indies for sugar, to New York and in the Mediterranean. She later went into the coasting trade and had a long working life that lasted until 1950. The William Ashburner was considered to be a fast ship, it being claimed that she once covered 240 miles in 24 hours with a full cargo of coal.
Painted oil on canvas, signed and dated Antwerp 1892, in a period burr wood frame.
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