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Merchantman Off The Greenock Customs House

Catalog no. 0001182

MediumOil on Canvas
Size19 1/4 x 30 Inches
DateCirca 1817

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About the artist

Robert Salmon is undoubtedly one of the most important painters in marine art history. He played a crucial role in the development of maritime art in America. He is widely considered the father of American luminism with a style of painting that was to influence the likes of Fitz Hugh Lane, William Bradford and many other young New England artists of the 19th century. Born in England in 1775, he painted mainly in Greenock, Liverpool and other ports. He left a successful career in England to emigrate to the United States where he settled in Boston in 1828. It was in this New England seaport…

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