Lot 16: PETRUS WEYTS (FLEMISH, 1799-1855) Lady Sale of Dundee signed and i

PETRUS WEYTS (FLEMISH, 1799-1855) Lady Sale of Dundee signed and inscribed ‘P. WEYTS. ANTWERP.’ (lower right) and further inscribed and dated ‘LADYSALE OF DUNDEE. ROBERT LAW. MASTER PASSING FLUSHING. 1847.’ (lower centre) reverse oil on glass 54 x 71.4cm (21 1/4 x 28 1/8in).

The snow Lady Sale was built in Dundee in 1843 and owned by T Erskine. Registered at 202 tons, she was intended to trade from Dundee to Havana but when Captain Law took her over in 1846, she also sailed out of Liverpool to Rio de Janeiro as well as ports nearer to home. The vessel was named in honour of Lady Florentina Sale, the redoubtable wife of Colonel Sir Robert Sale, G.C.B., the ‘hero’ of Kabul in 1842, who having survived capture in Afghanistan, published her memoirs to public acclaim in 1843