The steamship 'Glasgow' on fire off Nantucket, 31 July 1865: passengers and crew rescued by the 'Rosamund'<br><p>Ship portrait. This painting has a received attribution to 'T. Butterworth' - presumably Thomas Buttersworth, who cannot have painted it since he died in 1842. The American location of the subject at least makes it more likely that it might be by his son and pupil James Edward (1817-94) who emigrated to America in 1845-47 and thereafter worked largly in West Hoboken, New Jersey, but this remains to be confirmed one way or the other. [PvdM 7/11]<br></p>
The steamship Glasgow on fire off Nantucket 31 July 1865: passengers and crew rescued by the Rosamund
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:James_E._Buttersworth" class="extiw" title="w:en:James E. Buttersworth"><span title="British artist (1817-1894)">James E. Buttersworth</span></a>
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circa 1865 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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