Image Lot Price Description

2043
$11,500.00

SOLON FRANCIS MONTECELLO BADGER (American, 1873-1919) PORTRAIT OF THE SCHOONER “DAISY FARLIN”. Oil on canvas ship portrait shows the green hull schooner sailing right to left in full sail in front of a distant sandy bluff with lighthouse and buildings believed to be Headland Light, Cape Cod and Signal Station. There are five crewmen on deck and the name is emblazoned on the bow and also on the back mast on a red, white and blue pennant. The middle mast has a company red pennant with an “H” and a blue field star flag on front mast. United States flag flies off back. A blue white tip ocean under a gray and white cloud sky with blue in left corner. Signed lower left “S F M Badger”. Reverse of original canvas signed “S F M Badger, Charlestown, MA”. Also an old pen inscribed label “Built by Kelly and Spear, Bath, ME for Captain E.L. Dunton”. Also a typed label. Housed in its original mahogany frame. SIZE: 19″ x 30″. CONDITION: Very good with some surface dirt. 9-20281 (8,000-12,000)


Auction: Fine Art, Antiques & Asian - August 2010
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