Lot: 9456
Date of sale: 1. Sat Apr 2023
Petersen, Lorenz. 1803 Flensburg - 1870 Altona. Captain's painting of the Hamburg brig J.H.
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Petersen, Lorenz. 1803 Flensburg – 1870 Altona. Captain’s painting of the Hamburg brig J.H. Bockelmann. 1863. oil/canvas, bottom right signed a. dated L. Petersen 1983 as well as bottom left inscribed Capt. F.J. Napp, 46.5 x 64 cm, minimal chipping at the lowest center margin, framed 57 x 74.5 cm.- Built in 1848 by the Oltmanns shipyard in Brake she was launched in 1849 as Oceanus and was first sold to Russia, but in the same year sold to Johann Finke in Bremen and renamed Marie. Sold to H. Pego & Co. in Hamburg in 1863, she was given the name J. H. Bockelmann and from then on sailed under Captain Felix Jacob Napp to East Asia between Far Eastern ports. In 1865 she was the victim of a pirate attack. Sold in Bremerhaven in 1866, she sailed under the Norwegian flag as Amanda from 1874. Her further fate is unknown. Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt, II, p. 462 f.
Category: Fine art
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