Collector's Journal — Maritime Art
Potosi: Around Cape Horn in the Final Great Age of Sail
Age of Sail Art Research Cape Horn Chilean Nitrate Trade Collectors Journal Drake Passage F Laeisz Five Masted Barque Flying P-Liners German Maritime History M Job Marine Painting Maritime Art Maritime History Potosi Provenance Research Robert Hilgendorf Sailing Ships Ship Portrait Tall Ships Tayler & Fletcher Windjammer
A dramatic circa 1900 oil painting captures the legendary five-masted barque Potosi driving through mountainous southern seas, revealing the extraordinary story of the Flying P-Liners, the Chilean nitrate trade and the final great age of commercial sail.
Frank Watson Wood and HMS London: A Royal Navy Portrait from the First World War
Art Research British Art British Expeditionary Force British Naval Art Collectors Journal Dardanelles Edmund Walter Anstice First World War Frank Watson Wood Gallipoli HMS London Marine Painting Maritime Art Maritime History Naval Watercolour Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Provenance Research Royal Navy Royal Navy History WW1 Naval Art
A signed First World War watercolour by celebrated marine artist Frank Watson Wood captures HMS London during a pivotal period in Royal Navy history, accompanied by remarkable surviving material connected with future Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Walter Anstice.