ARTIST: T Bailey (Massachusetts, 19/20 century)
NAME: Sail Ship
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 20 x 25 inches / 50 x 63 cm
FRAME SIZE: 23 x 28 inches / 58 x 71 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
T. Bailey is a fictitious name for a a marine and ship painter, made up by Morris Hambro (1860-1938). British born, Hambro was a sign painter and salesman who came to the U.S. in 1865 and began selling T. Bailey paintings up and down the East Coast after 1910. A typical T. Bailey painting shows a tall ship in the high seas, sail unfurled. Several artists' names are associated with these paintings, including Vivian Forsythe Porter, Max Berman, Sears Thompson, J.G. Cloudman, Mae Bennet Brown, Melbourne C. Hardwick and most notably, William Frederick Paskell. Hambro sold the paintings mostly to businesses, traveling from Boston to Worcester, Portland, Maine and Cape Cod. Extremely successful, Hambro sold many of the paintings to galleries as well, and they were hanging in boardrooms from Boston to New York.