Lot 1012

ND c.1960 Framed Color Picture Of The Bath Built "Abner Coburn" By Charles Patterson

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ND c.1960 Framed Color Picture Of The Bath Built "Abner Coburn" By Charles Patterson

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by The Book Barn
August 13, 2026 5:00 PM EDT
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353 Indian Village Road
Shapliegh, ME, US 07076

VINTAGE ND Circa 1960 Framed Color Picture Approximately 14 1/2X17 Of The Bath Maine Built Sailing Ship "Abner Coburn" By Marine Artist Charles Robert Patterson.

Color Print of the Bath Maine built "Abner Coburn". Approximately 14 1/2 inches high by 17 inches wide measured to outside of frame. Image is approximately 13 1/2 inches high by 16 inches wide, so wood frame is approximately 1/2 inches wide. Period framed under glass with a printed description of the ship's history on a sticker is on the back. Signed in the image on lower right: "CHARLES ROBERT PATTERSON". Hanging Hardware & wire attached; ready to hang.

CHARLES ROBERT PATTERSON (1878-1958) was a noted British born merchant seaman, newspaper and magazine illustrator, photographer and painter. Born in England to a family of shipbuilders, Charles Robert Patterson became known for his oil and watercolor marine paintings, often ships sailing on turbulent seas depicted in highly accurate historical detail. His painting abilities combined with his life adventures, as he went to sea by age 13, sailed the seven seas aboard many kinds of vessels, and rounded Cape Horn four times. In the 1920s, Patterson settled in New York City in order to focus on his art career. He became an active member of the National Arts Club, American Watercolor Society, Allied Artists of America and the Salmagundi Club. In addition to painting, he did lithographic prints and photographs, and during the 1930s, he did two mural paintings for Memorial Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He is also represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Butler Institute of American Art, OH; Detroit Historical Museum, MI; Los Angeles Art Association, CA; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MAA; The Navy Museum, US Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, MD. In May 2006, the Heritage Museums & Gardens Art Museum of Sandwich, Massachusetts, opened a solo exhibition of his work titled "Saving our Ships: The Sea Paintings of Charles Robert Patterson". The exhibit was an examination of Patterson's career as a merchant seaman, newspaper and magazine illustrator, photographer and painter."

USS "ABNER COBURN" (1882-1930) was a noted international Commerical sailing ship named for a prominent Maine businessman and Governor. The U.S.S. "Abner Coburn" operated from 1882 to 1925 in International Trade & was burned in 1930 to salvage her metal fittings. The ship is also the subject of paintings by various famous marine artists. It was also mentioned by Basil Lubbock, noted marine historian, "the beautiful "Abner Coburn" in one of his sailing ship nautical histories."

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