Lai Fong, attributed (Chinese Active circa 1870-1910)
Barque Jane Sprott Entering Hong Kong
oil on canvas, unsigned, Chinese School circa 1870-80
Provenance: N.R. Omell Gallery, 6 Duke Street, St. James's London, 21st Annual Marint Paintings Exhibition No. 40, purchased June 11, 1991
Size: 18 h x 23 1/2 w in (with frame 22 7/8 x 28 ½ in)
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The Jane Sprott was an iron barque with number 58900, built at Harrington in 1868 by R.W. Williamson & Son for J.B. Sprott of Mannering Road, Liverpool. She was 688 tons with dimensions 176' x 30' x 19'. Her signal letters were HPVJ. After 1890 she was owned by Jackson & Metcalf, also of Liverpool. She was bought by the Adelaide Steamship Company circa 1902, renamed Copeland Island, and then Copeland. She was used as a hulk in Albay until 1928, when she was scuttled on May 18, 1928 at Gull Rock, near Albany, Australia.
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