Lot 85: OOC 4-Mast Schooner Ellen Little SFM Badger

OOC - Circa 1904, oil on canvas depicts a broadside view of the four masted schooner 'Ellen Little' under full sail and flying a flag from each mast. She is sailing towards twin lights at Thacter's Island, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Signed lower left S.F.M. Badger (Samuel Finley Morse Badger, MA, 1873-1919), and inscribed along lower border 'Schooner 'Ellen Little' H.L. Rawding Master', signed verso 'S.F.M. Badger 5 Trenton St. Charlestown, Mass'. Set into a 19th c. style fluted cove frame with compo base and 23K gold leaf surface. SS: 22 1/4" x 36", OS: 32 1/4" x 46 1/4", painting recently cleaned and placed on new stretcher, unlined, in excellent condition. Note: The 'Ellen Little' was built in Rockland, Maine by Cobb, Butler & Co in 1904, was owned by Crowell & Thurlow and sailed out of Boston. Vessel was 188.2 feet in length, 39.2 feet in breadth and drew 11.7 feet.