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New York Pilot Schooner #17- FANNIE

Catalog no. 0000604

MediumOil on Canvas
Size11 Inches x 15 Inches
SignedUnsigned
DateCirca 1870

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About the artist

Precious little is known about marine artist Conrad Freitag. Those points which are remembered are well worth noting. Best known as the portrait painter of New York harbor's pilot ships, he was a professional acquaintance of William Garner, a vice-commodore of the New York Yacht Club and owner of New York's People Line. Garner commissioned numerous works by the artist, many of which now belong to the collections in the N.Y.Y.C. and the Museum of the City of New York. Garner, his wife and two others were lost in 1875 while sailing off Staten Island onboard the schooner MOHAWK, which capsized…

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