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Vigilant vs. Valkyrie II In The 1895 America’s Cup
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: James E Buttersworth
Two racing yachts cut through open water in this Buttersworth marine scene, offered as a hand-painted oil reproduction with the tonal restraint and brushwork of the original preserved on canvas.
Description
Description
Spray breaks white against dark hulls as two yachts drive hard on the wind, sails taut, rigging strained to its limit. This is the moment James E Buttersworth fixes in Vigilant vs. Valkyrie II In The 1895 America’s Cup, a scene built from motion rather than stillness.
About Vigilant Vs. Valkyrie Ii in the
Buttersworth made his name painting yachts at the exact instant of competition, and this canvas shows why racing owners and newspapers alike sought his work. The two boats are set close together, their hulls angled against a restless sea, so the eye reads speed before it reads detail. Sky and water share a narrow tonal range, grey through pale blue, and the painter lets the white of the sails carry the light. That restraint in colour is deliberate. It keeps attention on the shapes cutting through the water rather than on decorative effect.
The brushwork is quick where the sea demands it and steady where the hulls and rigging need precision. Buttersworth worked in an era when marine painting served as a kind of visual record, and his method reflects that: close observation of rig and trim, combined with a painters instinct for how wind moves across canvas sails and water alike. This picture belongs to the mature phase of his career, when America’s Cup racing gave him subjects with built-in drama and a public eager to see them rendered accurately.
ByMuseum recreates this scene as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, worked by a trained artist directly onto canvas rather than printed by machine. The palette is matched stroke by stroke against the original, the impasto of the sails and the finer glazing of the sky are preserved, and the surface keeps the texture of real oil paint, not the flat sheen of ink on paper. The result is a museum quality reproduction meant to be seen up close, where brushwork still shows.
The hand-painted reproduction
What carries across from the original is the balance Buttersworth struck between two competing boats, the tonal restraint of sea and sky, and the physical presence of paint itself, the same qualities a print can only approximate.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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