Ship portrait, signed. Oil painting of the clipper 'Leander' (with her name on the bow) in starboard-broadside view. To the right a pilot cutter approaches, with other vessels and a distant headland beyond. This appears to bear twin lighthouses, but the location (certainly British) remains to be firmly identified: twin lights exist (or have done) on Lizard Point, the North Foreland, and at Whitby. It is more likely to be one of the first two, if either. The same feature appears in Spencer's painting of the 'Minero' (BHC3491). 'Clipper' is a somewhat elastic term for a fast full-rigged sailing ship of this period, though appropriate here. The ship has double topsails which suggest an 1870s date though a little either way is possible. For details on the artist, see BHC3286.