Pictorial Supplement 11

Robert Salmon, 19th-Century Marine Artist

Within the last ten years the marines of English-born-Robert Salmon have stirred fresh interest both in the United States and in Great Britain. Polished in style and expert in technical knowledge, they are now eagerly sought after by collectors and museums alike. Salmon was baptized at Whitehaven in 1775. Between the years 1800 and 1828 he painted in the environs of Liverpool and Greenock; then, in 1828, he came to America and settled in Boston where during the next fourteen years he completed over 400 oils. About 1842 he returned to Britain and is believed to have died there sometime toward the end of the decade. During the course of his career he executed over 1,000 paintings, only a small portion of which have yet come to light. Through the kindness of Professor John Wilmerding whose study of Salmon, Robert Salmon, Painter of Ship and Shore, is to be published by the Boston Public Library, a selection of the artist's work is presented here. The arrangement is chronological.

British Ship off Liverpool, 1807
Courtesty, Peabody Museum of Salem