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01 Marine Painting, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen’s La Champagne, With Footnotes, #322
Sold for $100,000 USD in Nov 2022 Though Moran spent a great deal of time painting the American frontier, it is his dreamy, jewel-toned depictions of Venice that perhaps best epitomize his intent to imaginatively capture the romantic, picturesque beauty and the unique sensory experience of a locale, rather than depicting reality in topographically accurate…
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01 Marine Work, George Savary Wasson’s Seascape with Ships, With Footnotes, #319
Sold for $800.00 in May 2019George Savary Wasson 1855-1932; was from a shipbuilding and seafaring family in Brooksville, Maine, George Wasson’s father was a prominent Transcendentalist minister whose church was that of Thoreau and Emerson. His grandfather and uncle built and owned ships. From 1873- 1875, when his father went to Germany to study religion,…