19th Century Seascape with Ship in a Storm, by John Erik Christian Peterson (Danish American: 1839 – 1874), circa 1867
19th Century Seascape with Ship in a Storm, by John Erik Christian Peterson (Danish American: 1839 – 1874), circa 1867
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19th Century Seascape with Ship in a Storm, by John Erik Christian Peterson (Danish American: 1839 – 1874), circa 1867, an oil on canvas stormy seascape with ship scudding under fore and main coarses, reefed topsails and furled royals and topgallants, with crew visible aloft busy on the yards, signed and dated 1867 lower right, painted when the artist was residing and working in Boston.
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19th Century Seascape with Ship in a Storm, by John Erik Christian Peterson (Danish American: 1839 – 1874), circa 1867, an oil on canvas stormy seascape with ship scudding under fore and main coarses, reefed topsails and furled royals and topgallants, with crew visible aloft busy on the yards, signed and dated 1867 lower right, painted when the artist was residing and working in Boston. A dramatic and beautiful painting, with brilliantly rendered sea.
The painting is in good condition, relined, with some stable craquelure and some tiny bits of loss, mostly along the margin of frame.
Measures: 13-5/8 in H x 21-1/2 in W
Framed: 17-1/2 in H x 25-5/8
John Erik Christian Peterson studied fine art at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. He also studied with noted marine painters Daniel Herman Anton Melbye and Niels Carl F. Dahl, and served as an officer during Denmark’s short-lived war with Prussia and Austria in 1864. He emigrated to America in 1865 and settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He worked out of a studio at 12 West Street and became known for his dramatic, carefully rendered depictions of sailing vessels along the coast and on the high seas.
