Lot 416: C. Baervoets (c.1842)

The Divils [sic] - Thumb Ships boring and warping in the pack
signed and dated 'C. Baervoetz. 1842' (lower left) and inscribed 'The Divils Thumb Ships boring and warping/in the pack' (lower centre)
bodycolour, on glass
21 x 26 in. (53.3 x 66 cm.)

This fascinating study of three sealers trapped in the pack-ice off the Devil's Thumb, in the Gulf of Alaska, is an extremely unusual and possibly unrecorded subject for a reverse glass painting. So far untraced, the name of the artist (Baervoets) suggests he may have been a Belgian, perhaps working with or alongside his more famous compatriot Petrus Nefors (1790-1876) who produced many striking glass paintings in the period 1830-50.

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