£420
W** KNESTON (Fl.c.1900)
THE SCREW STEAMER `ABEONA`
Signed, oil on canvas
43 x 68cm.
* The 275.3ft general cargo steamer was built by William Gray & Co, Hartlepool in 1886 and torpedoed by a U-Boat off Dungeness en route to Bilbao in March 1918.
Provenance: By descent in the family of a Tyneside shipwright.
++ Lined; evident craquelure; retouched damage in sea lower centre
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