Chinese School, 19th Century Portrait of the British Barque Marlborough Hill

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Chinese School, 19th Century

Portrait of the British Barque Marlborough Hill. Unsigned, vessel identified on bow and pennant. Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in., in a gilt gesso frame. Condition: Relined, scattered retouch.

Note: The Marlborough Hill was an iron four-masted barque built in 1885 by W. H. Potter and Sons, of Liverpool, for the Sailing Ship Marlborough Hill Co., Ltd., also of Liverpool. She had a gross tonnage of 2,531, and measured 300.5 feet in length.
Estimate $2,500-3,500

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