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I. Tudgay

I. Tudgay, British, fl 1850-1877.



This is a double ship portrait of the American ship, The Frederick Warren, a 363 ton bark originally built in
Portsmouth, NH for Nathaniel Goddard of Boston in 1836. So called a double ship portrait because it features the
same ship in two positions, it was painted in 1851 by I. Tudgay, one of the prestigious Tudgay family of marine
artists who painted such commissions between 1850 and 1877. This was most likely ordered by the captain of the
Frederick Warren for her then current owners George B. Upton and John M. Forbes of Boston after a successful and
profitable journey to the English port of Liverpool. The coastal cliffs of Dover are depicted in the background.

Works exist in public and private collections which are signed I. Tudgay, L. Tudgay, J. & L. Tudgay, J. & F. Tudgay,
and F. Tudgay. The current thought is that I., L. & J. are either brothers or are possibly one and the same, John.
Frederick is known to have been the youngest, born in 1841, perhaps the son of John. This family of marine artists
is distinguished by their careful and accurate draftsmanship. Works by the Tudgay family are in the collections of
the Peabody Essex Museum, MA, the Mystic Seaport Museum, CT, and the National Maritime Museum, England.

Provenance:
Private MA collection
Vose Galleries, 1994
Mrs. J. K. Sterling, Georgetown, MA

"Barque Frederick Warren",
Signed I. Tudgay and dated 1851, lower right.
Oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

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