Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850-1921)
County of Edinburgh Stranded on Point Pleasant Beach, 1900
Oil on canvas
18 x 30 in. (45.7 x 76.2 cm.)
The Mariners' Museum
A four-masted iron and steel barque built in 1885 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 87,01×12,92×7.38 meters [285'6"×42'5"×24'3], tonnage: 2117 GRT and 1903 NRT. Rigged with royal sails above double top- and single topgallant sails; to be used in the Indian jute trade.
The vessel was en route from Cape Town to New York when blown ashore by high winds in poor visibility. She was refloated 3 days later. The master was Mr. I. Webster. The vessel was eventually wrecked at South Rock, Ireland in 1917. More on the County of Edinburgh
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November 2,
1850 – February 2, 1921) was a
Danish-born American maritime artist known as the "Audubon of Steam
Vessels". He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where he attended the Royal
Academy of Design before heading across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in the
United States in August 1873 and settled in West Hoboken, New Jersey (now Union
City, New Jersey), across the Hudson River from Manhattan and New York Harbor.
Jacobsen got his start painting pictures of ships on safes, and as his
reputation grew, he was asked to do portraits of ships by their owners,
captains and crew members, with many of his works sold for five dollars.
Jacobsen
painted more than 6,000 portraits of sail and steam vessels, making him
"the most prolific of marine artists". Many of his commissions came
from sea captains, and Jacobsen was chosen both for the accuracy of his work
and his low fee. More Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen
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