Antique 19th Century Marine Seascape Coastal Maritime English Channel Painting by James Webb, 1860 Drawings & Prints This began Sauerwein's unyielding fascination

This began Sauerwein's unyielding fascination with the Southwest and its Native inhabitants

This large and impressive painting exemplifies the work of the artist

the painting has received professional conservation & cleaning by one of North America's most skilled practitioners in art restoration & conservation

1881 and came from a family of artists

Provenance: From the lifelong art collection of a California gentleman

Antique 19th Century Marine Seascape Coastal Maritime English Channel Painting by James Webb, 1860 Drawings & Prints This began Sauerwein's unyielding fascinationA good antique marine oil painting by James Webb (1825 1895), circa 1860, ex Sothebys. The painting depicts a stormy or squally sea, most likely the English channel, the rocky cliffs of the coastal outline to the foreground with seagulls flying low to the water. To the background are three sailing ships, the painting is signed lower roght "J. Webb", the painting is hloused in the loriginal gilded gesso frame. The painting is in excellent condition, to