Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler - The "Clementine" at Sea - image-1

Lot 145 Dα

Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler - The "Clementine" at Sea

Auction 1104 - overview Cologne
14.03.2018, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th Century
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.712 € (incl. premium)
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Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler

The "Clementine" at Sea

Oil on canvas. 37 x 50.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: C J Fedeler 1838.

The "Clementine" operated as a freight and passenger ship to North and South America as well as being used as a whaling ship. She sailed continuously for the J. F. W. Iken shipping company of Bremen. The "Clementine" was built in 1834 and decommissioned in 1850. The flags of the city of Bremen and of the Iken shipping company can clearly be seen in Fedeler's detailed depiction.

Provenance

Private ownership, West Germany.

Literature

For information on the ship depicted here, cf.: Peter-Michael Pawlik: Von der Weser in die Welt, vol. 1, 1994, p. 185-186, no. 126 with comparison illustration.