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Glory of the Seas
Oil on canvas, 102 x 142cm
Signed. Title inscribed on stretcher verso.
C.R.Patterson was born into a shipbuilding and seafaring family. 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.
€ 3,000 - 5,000
TABLE,
the plain top above a central tablet and with beaded rim on a turned centre pillar and
splayed sabre legs with cast brass toe caps and casters. 92 x 45.5cm
€ 800 - 1,200