Thomas Willis: Shamrock III and Reliance Crossing the Line, America’s Cup, 1903

Thomas Willis: Shamrock III and Reliance Crossing the Line, America’s Cup, 1903. This mixed media picture is oil on canvas with silk and velvet fabric embroidered with silk thread. It shows the 1903 America’s Cup yacht race outside New York Harbour between Reliance and Shamrock III. The spectator boat Edward J. Bergwind occupies the centre of the picture. The scene is meticulously detailed with stitched silk rigging, a velvet hull overlaid with silk to depict the spray of the waves and a velvet smokestack with a tuft of silk streaming behind as smoke. Signed and dated ‘T. Willis, N.Y., 1904’. American.

Estimate:£18,500

View all items fromWick AntiquesorArts & Graphics