02 Marine Works - David Thimgan's Abbott Lawrence, with Footnotes, #375

David Thimgan, (1955 - 2003)

Abbott Lawrence

Oil on canvas

16"h. 20"w. Frame 23.5"h.

Private collection

This work was sold for $2,520.00 on March 21, 2020 

LAWRENCE, Abbott (1792-1855). Was an American merchant, legislator, and diplomat. He was born in Groton, Mass.; was educated in a district school, and at the Groton Academy. He moved to Boston in 1808, and there served an apprenticeship in the warehouse of his elder brother, Amos, with whom in 1814 he founded the famous firm of A. & A. Lawrence. Lawrence also took an active interest in several railroad enterprises; was president of the Essex Company, which in 1845 founded Lawrence, Mass. (named in his honor), and toward the latter part of his life was largely engaged in the China trade. From 1834 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1840, when ill health forced him to resign, he was a member of Congress; and in 1842 he was one of the commissioners of Massachusetts, who coöperated with the commissioners of Maine, and with Daniel Webster, then Secretary of State, in negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (q.v.) concerning the northeast boundary of the United States, with England's representative, Lord Ashburton. 

He was United States Minister to England in President Taylor's Administration, in which capacity he rendered important services to the country, and became widely popular with the English people, though in 1852, wishing to devote his attention wholly to his business interests, he was recalled at his own request. He made many donations to charitable institutions, and in 1847 contributed $50,000 for the establishment of a scientific school at Harvard, which was named in his honor, and to which by will he subsequently contributed another $50,000. He left a like sum for the erection of model lodging-houses for the poor, the surplus income from which was to be forever applied to charitable purposes. Consult Hill, Memoir of Abbott Lawrence (Boston, 1883). More on Abbott Lawrence

Abbott Lawrence

David Thimgan, (1955 - 2003) was one of the leaders of a new generation of marine artists. Specializing in re-creating scenes of America’s seafaring past with emphasis on the West Coast and Pacific Rim waterways.

His uncanny ability to portray the fluidity and texture of the sea’s many moods combined with an artist’s eye for color and a historian’s knowledge of the way of a ship generated some of the most strikingly accurate and appealing marine paintings by a modern maritime artist.

Showing his artistic talent at an early age, David created pencil sketches and watercolors as a child that hinted of the precision that was to follow.

In 1978, at age 23, he embarked on a career as a full time artist. With no formal art training, David’s approach was to start painting what he loved the best--ships and the sea. His marine pictures were the most popular with his growing collectors and what he enjoyed painting the best.

A member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1981, David Thimgan’s reputation as one of America’s leading historical marine painters grew rapidly. His work is in numerous public and private collections. He had exhibitions at the prestigious Mystic International Show for many years as well as the Mystic Invitational Art Show. His paintings have been displayed at both the Museum of Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore and the Ventura Maritime Museum in Oxnard, California. More on David Thimgan

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