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The Yacht Race
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: James E Buttersworth
The Yacht Race by James E Buttersworth arrives as a hand-painted replica on canvas, its rigging and spray rebuilt stroke by stroke for lasting surface presence.
Description
Description
Collectors of nineteenth-century marine art have long returned to The Yacht Race for the way it seems to hold the wind still for a moment, a scene that reads as spontaneous but was built with real deliberation by an artist who understood sailing vessels from the inside. Generations of admirers of the work of James E Buttersworth have praised its clarity of incident: the boats are never mere shapes on water but bodies in motion, caught at a moment when speed, light, and rivalry all align.
About Yacht Race
The composition sets its yachts at an angle that pulls the eye across the canvas, sails caught mid-luff and hulls tipped just enough to suggest the pressure of wind against canvas. Buttersworth built his reputation painting exactly this kind of contest, and by the period this work belongs to he had refined a shorthand for water and sky that reads as both precise and alive: broken passages of white and grey describing chop, a horizon kept low so the vessels dominate, cloud handled in soft transitions that let the sunlight fall unevenly across the scene. The palette stays close to the maritime register of blues, greys, and warm off-whites, but it is the placement of a single bright accent, a flag or a sunlit sail, that carries the eye and holds the composition together.
Look closely at the surface and the technique becomes the real subject: short, confident strokes for spray and rigging, longer sweeps for the body of the water, a restraint in the sky that keeps the drama at sea level where it belongs. The result is a painting built from calculated contrasts of edge and tone rather than incident alone, which is precisely why it has held the attention of collectors who care about how a marine picture is actually made, not just what it depicts.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum recreates this work as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, produced by a trained painter working in oil on artist-grade canvas rather than printed by machine. Every passage of water and sail is rebuilt stroke by stroke, so the raised texture of impasto and the visible movement of the brush survive in the finished piece, and the result functions as a genuine hand-painted replica rather than a flat facsimile. Hung above a mantel, in a study, or along a hallway that catches morning light, the painting rewards the kind of steady, low, indirect illumination that lets its tonal shifts show rather than glare off a varnished surface. It suits rooms built around calm, ordered objects: a library, a den, a coastal house where the subject matter already belongs, somewhere it can be lived with daily rather than glanced at once.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed reproduction
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall it is intended for
- Gallery-ready presentation, finished and ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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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.
Framed — Ready to Hang
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For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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