Plant Line Steamship Evangeline, 1913

oil on board, 24" x 48"

Signed LR, 1913 Listed on page 107 of The Check List

$15,500

The Steamship Evangeline was built in the Clyde in Scotland in 1912 for the Canada Atlantic Plant Steamship Company of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was described as being the most luxurious passenger steamer on the Atlantic Coast. In the summer she ran from Boston, Massachusetts to Halifax, Port Hawkesbury, and Charlottetown. In the winter she sailed from Key West, Florida to Colon, Panama, Kingston, Jamaica, and Havana, Cuba. Her cruising route even included visiting the Panama Canal then under construction. Danish-born ship portrait painter Antonio Jacobsen painted five portraits of the Evangeline between 1913 and 1915. One is in the collection of the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Virginia, another is in the collection of the Brockton Art Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts. This is a fine example of Jacobsen's work.