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Commissioning The S.S. Merrimac

by Joseph B. Smith

Circa 1862
Oil on Canvas
30 x 60 Inches, 36 x 66 Inches Framed

Vallejo Gallery

Newport Beach, CA

Smith, Joseph B.notes
A historic painting marking the iron screw steamers rise to dominance in the American passenger trade, the MERRIMAC was the twin to the S.S. MISSISSIPPI, the first all-iron American ships. Birthed from Harrison Loring and Companys Boston yard and Samuel Pooks design, the order came from the Union Steamship Company. Since no local mills were capable...
Schooner Aurelia P. Howe

by Joseph B. Smith

Circa 1850s
Oil on Canvas
25 3/4 x 35 5/8 Inches, 35 5/8 x 45 1/4 Inches Framed

Vallejo Gallery

Newport Beach, CA

Smith, Joseph B.notes
This is an extremely well done narrative ship portrait by one of the more elusive American marine painters, Joseph B. Smith. The schooner AURELIA P. HOWE, named after the daughter of a Manhattan business family, launched in 1845 out of Baltimore, Maryland and worked in the Chesapeake and Atlantic coastwise trade. Shown in her early glory, the...
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