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Bark GEORGE KINGMAN off South Rock Lighthouse

Catalog no. 0000835

MediumOil on Paper Laid Down on Canvas
Size19 Inches x 31⅛ Inches
SignedSigned LR: J. Sempill Belfast 1874
Date1874

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About the artist

One of the pivotal British Pierhead painters, Joseph Semple painted portraits in oil of some of the last wooden sailing ships ever built. Nineteenth century shipyards in America and Belfast continued to build capable sailing ships in the traditional methods with wood while British yards were primarily working in iron and then steel. Semple held to the traditional methods of his profession. His commissioned paintings show broadside views of ships in action off his home of Belfast, Ireland. While scenes of Liverpool and other Irish sea ports have also been discovered, possibly staying true to…

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