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The Canadian Ship "La Gloire" by John F. Loos (Belgian, Active 1862-1893) Signed and dated lower right "John Loos, Antwerp, 1869." Oil on canvas, 20-¾" x 30-½", in a carved wood frame.
"La Gloire" was built at Hantsport, Nova Scotia, in 1862.
John F. Loos was a Belgian ship portraitist working in Antwerp in the third quarter of the 19th C. The Peabody Museum in Salem, MA, has numerous examples …. See D. E. Brewington's Dictionary of Marine Artists, p. 238; and E. H. Archibald's Dictionary of Sea Painters, p. 140.
Price: $16,500 KR-68-2
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