£400 - £600
LAI FONG OF CALCUTTA (CHINESE, ACT. 1870-1910)
The ship 'County of Linlithgow' running under shortened sail in high seas
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Lai Fong/Calcutta/1898' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
24 x 34in. (61 x 86cm.)
Sotheby's London: Marine Pictures and Nautical Works of Art, 11th May 1994, lot 176.
County of Linlithgow was a 2,300 ton four-masted cargo ship built by Barclay Curle & Co in 1887 for R & J Craig of Glasgow. In 1919 she was sold and converted to a twin screw tanker for vegetable oil. Sold on to Greek owners in 1923 for use as a petroleum carrier, she was renamed Katerina in 1937 and sunk as such in an air raid on Methana, Piraeus on 23rd April 1941.
Extensive craquelure, very little retouching, relined.
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