Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses Samuel C. Bird 1870 Drawings & Prints Philidelphia

Philidelphia

the desk is raised on a low stand with a shaped skirt & short cabriole legs

most likely by Phillippe-Joseph Brocard (1831-1896)

5 cm X 9 cm

a Parisian woman

Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses Samuel C. Bird 1870 Drawings & Prints PhilidelphiaA very good antique 19th century British oil on canvas painting, seascape coastal scene by Samuel C. Bird, circa 1870. This very attractive oil on canvas painting depicts a coastal scene with a team of Shire or Draught horses pulling a ship's main mast with chains out of the sea, after a shipwreck. A figure astride one of the lead horses is looking back to guide the horses, in the distance are two more figures walking by the water's edge. The sky is