Ship Alfred of Salem Cap’ Joseph Felt
[Marseille], 1806.
Dimensions : 375 x 550 mm.
Frame dimensions : 530 x 695 mm.
Watercolor and gouache on laid paper.
Signed and dated lower right.
Excellent overall condition, one or two light stains.
Nineteenth-century frame with some modern damage and restoration.
Magnificent, large watercolor depicting the three-masted Alfred of Salem leaving Marseille's Old Port.
She was built in 1805 in Salem, Massachusetts, and carried sixteen guns and a crew of one hundred men. Her captain was Joseph Felt. The ship was captured by the British in 1814.
Nicolas Cammillieri (c. 1773-1860) was a Maltese marine painter active from the late 18th century to the 1850s.
An almost identical version of this watercolor was sold at Bonhams Skinner in Boston in 2009 (American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2444, February 15, 2009, lot n°130).
Dorothy E.R. Brewington. Dictionary of Marine Artists (1982, p.73). - E.H.H. Archibald. Dictionnaire des peintres de la mer. (1989, p.90). - Antonio Espinosa Rodrigues, Nicola Camilleri - Maltese Ship-Painter Melita Historica Vol. XI No.2 (Malte 1993).
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