Samuel Walters 1811-1882
Star of the East, hove-to in Beaumaris Bay awaiting the pilot for Liverpool
signed and dated 'S. WALTERS 1854' (lower left)
oil on canvas
33 x 51 in. (83.8 x 129.5 cm)
37 ¾ x 56 in. (96 x 142 cm) framed
37 ¾ x 56 in. (96 x 142 cm) framed
£36,000.00
Provenance
Messrs Gracie, Beazley and Co., Liverpool, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 November 1991, lot 112.
with Richard Green, London, 1993.
Literature
F.C. Beazley, F.S.A., Four Liverpool Clippers, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1925, pp.3-5, illustrated p.3.
A.S. Davidson, Samuel Walters - Marine Artist; Fifty Years of Sea, Sail, & Steam, Coventry, 1992, p.156, illustrated.