Artist: A. Fulton (20^th Century) British

Title: Untitled

Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed lower left

Size: 21” x 25.5” Framed

Fulton paints this ship with the fore and port visible as it appears to trim or anchor in the waves of the ocean. The birds flap and gather around the deck and it looks like the crew are throwing food slops overboard under a calm blue sky. The piece is finished in a gold and linen mount and a carved gilt frame.

Marine art was especially popular in Britain during the Romantic Era. The tradition of British marine art as a specialized genre with a strong emphasis on the shipping depicted began in large part with the Dutch in the 17th century, when it was commissioned mostly by merchant seamen and naval officers and created by marine art specialists. Fulton found his niche in the ship portraiture genre tradition of Montague Dawson.