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The steamship 'Glasgow' on fire off Nantucket, 31 July 1865: passengers and crew rescued by the 'Rosamund'
Ship portrait. This painting has a received attribution to 'T. Butterworth' - presumably Thomas Buttersworth, who cannot have painted it since he died in 1842. The American location of the subject at least makes it more likely that it might be by his son and pupil James Edward (1817-94) who emigrated to America at some point in 1845-47 and thereafter worked largely in West Hoboken, New Jersey, but this remains to be confirmed one way or the other. [PvdM 7/11]
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Object Details
| ID: | BHC3365 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Painting |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | British School, 19th century; Buttersworth, James Edward |
| Vessels: | Glasgow 1851; Rosamund 1852 |
| Date made: | circa 1865 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Painting: 455 mm x 610 mm x 11 mm |