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Description: | Seascape. Maritime scene featuring trading vessels with icebergs in the distance.
The 'City of Quebec'
An Aberdeen Clipper of 80 years ago. Gifted to the college by a governor 1926.
Oil on canvas
110.4 x 59.6 cm
Maritime scene with trading vessels and icebergs. On plaque "City of Quebec - An Aberdeen clipper of 80 years ago. Gifted to the college by a Governor 1926".The following information is from P and J 27 March 1926 and correspondence in the paper thereafter (noted by G M Fraser in his notebooks): The painting of the Aberdeen clipper "The City of Quebec" from 80 years ago was presented to Robert Gordon's anonymously by a governor. (This is confirmed by the Governors' Minutes and the inscription on it). It is almost certainly by Arthur Smith. Smith began as a painter at 32 Marischal Street, 1835-6. He moved to the Shiprow and in the middle forties he opened a shop at 30 Regent Quay.There he carried on the business of a ship painter and marine artists until 1882-3. The clipper was engaged in the Aberdeen and Quebec timber trade. The painting is to be hung in the Navigation School. (There was also a letter by someone who had an almost identical painting of the same ship but having seen the Robert Gordon's one he concluded that it was not a copy of his one. Apparently Smith did often paint more than one painting of a particular ship.)
Painting | Publisher: | MLA:ABDRG | Rights holder: | MLA:ABDRG | Subjects: | Fine Art: Paintings 1801-1900 | Temporal: | 1801-1850 | Source: | Robert Gordon University | Creator: | Smith, Arthur | Identifier: | ABDRG665 | Language: | en-GB |
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