"Schooner Race off the Needles"

oil on board

PAINTINGS - OIL
marad; paintings
Buttersworth, James E.
England, Isle of Wight
1866-12-25
oil paint; wood
board 7 x 10 in.; frame 12-11/16 x 15-11/16 x 2-1/4 in.

Painting, oil on board, "Schooner Race off Needles", signed lower right "J. E. Buttersworth," (Anglo-American, 1817-1894). Painting features starboard bow view of 2 schooner yachts on port tack passing lighthouse marking the Needles, Isle of Wight. Small open yawl-rigged craft in right foreground.

UNIDENTIFIED schooner yacht
1985.63.1