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Puritan And Genesta
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: James E Buttersworth
Own Puritan And Genesta by James E Buttersworth as a hand-painted oil on canvas, its racing yachts and choppy seas rendered with genuine brushwork and depth.
Description
Description
In the late nineteenth century, the great yacht races off New York and Newport gave American marine painters their finest subject, and few captured that world with more precision than James E Buttersworth. Puritan And Genesta records one of the celebrated contests of the era, when two rival yachts, built for speed and national pride, met on open water before crowds who understood exactly what was at stake. This picture belongs to that moment when the artist, working from a lifetime spent watching hulls cut through chop and canvas fill with wind, turned a sporting event into a lasting image.
About Puritan and Genesta
The composition sets the two vessels in close dialogue, their sails angled to catch every current of air, the sea beneath them built from short, broken strokes that suggest movement without ever losing structure. Buttersworth had an exacting eye for rigging and hull form, and here that precision serves the drama of the race itself: one boat pressing forward, the other answering close behind, both rendered with the kind of detail that only comes from genuine familiarity with sailing vessels rather than invention at a distance.
Light plays across the water in patches, brightening the sails while leaving the sea in cooler shadow, and this contrast is what gives the scene its sense of speed and weather. The palette stays disciplined, built from blues, greys, and the warm white of canvas sail, so that nothing distracts from the tension between the two competitors. It is a small picture in scale but not in ambition, painted with the kind of restraint that lets the subject carry its own excitement.
When our artists reproduce this scene, they work in oil on canvas rather than through any mechanical process, matching the palette of Buttersworth stroke by stroke and preserving the texture of the original brushwork, from the choppy sea to the taut curve of sail. The result is a genuine oil painting reproduction, an oil on canvas reproduction built by hand rather than printed, carrying real depth and surface where a flat print never could.
The hand-painted reproduction
Live with this painting for a while and you begin to notice how much motion is packed into so still an image, the lean of a mast, the churn just behind a hull, the exact moment before one yacht pulls ahead. Hung where the light shifts through the day, it rewards a second and third look, the kind of picture that a serious collector keeps returning to rather than simply passing by.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed reproduction
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- 90 day returns, full refund or free replacement, no restocking fee
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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