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James Edward Buttersworth Art

American, 1817-1894
Born in 1817 in Middlesex County, Great Britain, James Edward Buttersworth was the son of important English sea painter Thomas Buttersworth. Settling in New York in 1845, he soon established himself as one of America's leading marine artists. For the most part he signed his works J.E. Buttersworth. During the next period of his life, many of his works were chosen by Currier & Ives as subjects for lithographs. His images were also used in magazines and newspapers that reported the yachting events of the day. New York Harbor and the surrounding areas became a favorite background for his vessels which he portrayed faithfully with an eye for precise detail. His reputation sprang from his accurate representations of the great sailing yachts of his time. In order to accent the speed and grace of these vessels, he would often elongate the hulls and sails to create a feeling of motion portrayed along a low horizon line. With dramatic skies, churning seas and accurate detail, he ennobled and romanticized sailing ships with what have become historically important paintings that are both beautiful and refined.
(Biography provided by Vallejo Gallery)
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Artist: James Edward Buttersworth
Steam Ship Washington rescuing from the Winchester off Boston 1854
By James Edward Buttersworth
Located in Woodbury, CT
James Edward Butteerworth Owning a painting by James Edward Buttersworth depicting the heroic rescue of passengers from the ship 'Winchester' by the inscribed steamship 'Washington...
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1850s Victorian James Edward Buttersworth Art

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Oil, Board

SAPPHO, DAUNTLESS and GRACIE Racing at Cape May 1871
By James Edward Buttersworth
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
James E. Buttersworth's most sought-after artworks emerge from his depictions of American racing yachts going head to head in the major regattas...
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1870s American Realist James Edward Buttersworth Art

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Canvas, Oil

William Astor's Schooner AMBASSADRESS Leads the Regatta
By James Edward Buttersworth
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
William Astor Pilots the New York Yacht Club Run A superior and graceful schooner as grand as any ever built, AMBASSADRESS was William Backhouse Astor, Jr's "floating home" from its launch in 1877 until he sold it in 1884 and purchased his massive steam/sail yacht...
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1870s American Realist James Edward Buttersworth Art

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Canvas, Oil

VOLUNTEER Off Sandy Hook, Heading Out to Race in the Goelet Cup
By James Edward Buttersworth
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This atmospheric painting by James E. Butterworth depicts a group of yachts leaving New York Harbor on the annual New York Yacht Club cruise. In 1887, when this was painted, upon arr...
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1880s Other Art Style James Edward Buttersworth Art

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Oil, Board

The Start of the Great 1866 Transatlantic Yacht Race
By James Edward Buttersworth
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
A beautiful painting with historic importance, three schooner yachts line up before the Sandy Hook Lightship for the start of the world's first Transatlantic Yacht Race held in 1866. In his book, "J.E. Buttersworth, 19th Century Marine Painter", biographer Rudolph J. Schaefer has noted six views by the artist of this event. This is largest of the known works of this important benchmark in American yacht racing. Identification of the racing schooners is assisted by the special colored flags worn by the yachts. Foremost in the painting, wearing the Blue was HENRIETTA, owned by renowned newspaper publisher and infamous yachtsman James Gordon Bennett, Jr. White was atop the mast of VESTA, owned by tobacco baron and racehorse aficionado Pierre Lorillard, who initiated the competition with a dinner party boast over turtle soup...
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1860s James Edward Buttersworth Art

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Canvas, Oil

American Steam Schooner Meets British Frigates Crossing the English Channel
By James Edward Buttersworth
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Three ships - an American Three-Masted Steam Schooner, a British Sailing Royal Navy Frigate and a British Sidewheel Steam Naval Frigate - are all challenged by a tempestuous sea in this English Channel crossing scene. The British sailors work in unison to reef and employ sails on both frigates, running with the heavy, wind-driven sea towards Ramsgate, while the fore-and-aft rigged steam schooner burns her boilers while keeping her sails up to help stabilize the pitch and roll of the American ship, headed to continental Europe. Buttersworth has expertly detailed the actions of the men, their ships and the dramatic setting. Many other ships lay at anchorages off the Kent coast, showing from the Cliffs of Dover to the fortifications of Ramsgate. This early visit by an American sail/steam vessel to England is remarkable. The first such transatlantic voyage happened in 1819, by the historic S.S. SAVANNAH, and it’d take almost 20 years to be repeated. Among the first names of American Steam Schooners to make British ports, ASP, HARRIET, and BRUTUS are among those recorded. MIDAS, a steam schooner owned by Robert Bennett Forbes, was the first American steamship to China, in 1844. Showing a varied and illuminated sky that is recognized as a signature of Buttersworth’s artistic talent in his paintings, the stormy clouds are split by a sunburst opening, reflective light creating an emotional, positive hope for the subjects. The English Channel is at its narrowest width in this stretch off Kent, home to the Cinque Ports regulating trade and naval protection in the English Southeast for centuries. Buttersworth is soon bound for life in America, making this one of his last, and in our opinion, best British scenes painted in England. Sight Size: 18 x 24 Inches Signed LR: J.E. Buttersworth Provenance: India House...
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1830s James Edward Buttersworth Art

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Canvas, Oil

SAPPHO Leading DAUNTLESS Around the Mark
By James Edward Buttersworth
Located in Greenwich, CT
Seascape of a sailing race Literature: J.E. Buttersworth: 19th Century Marine Painter by Rudolph J. Schaefer SAPPHO leading DAUNTLESS Around the Mark, pg. 140 (2010 edition) and pg....
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19th Century Realist James Edward Buttersworth Art

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