Oil on canvas
22" x 35-1/2"
$28,000
Oil on board
19" x 35"
$20,000
Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921)
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Antonio Jacobsen became one of America's best known and most prolific painters of marine subjects. Jacobsen studied at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen before settling in Hoboken, New Jersey by 1880.
He emigrated to New York in 1871 to avoid serving in the Franco-Prussian War and got a job decorating safes. At that time, he began painting portraits of the vessels of the Old Dominion Steamship Line, creating about 6000 ship portraits in the New York Harbor between 1876 and 1919. Many of Jacobsen’s patrons were ship masters or boat owners in search of an accurately detailed record of their vessel. Jacobsen made detailed sketches in pencil, which he documented in catalogued notebooks before beginning his painting.