At Sea – ABNER COBURN

Catalog no. 0000770

MediumOil on Canvas
Size24 x 20 Inches
SignedSigned LR: Charles Robert Patterson

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About the artist

Patterson was born into a family of the sea. His father was president of the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company of Southampton, his uncle was a ship master and his brother was also a mariner. At thirteen, Patterson was apprenticed and went to sea as ship's boy. As a deep water sailor, Patterson rounded Cape Horn four times. While sailing before the mast, he discovered his ability to depict his love of ships and the sea through painting, initially on his shipmates' sea chests. He studied art briefly in Chicago and then moved to settle and open a studio in New York while still in his twenties…

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