Yacht Race In New York Harbor

Name: Painting of Yacht Race In New York Harbor by Buttersworth
SKU: BM8090
Price: 259.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $518.00.Current price is: $259.00.

Artist: James E Buttersworth

A hand-painted oil reproduction of Yacht Race In New York Harbor by James E Buttersworth, rebuilt in layered oil color to keep the brushwork and motion of the original harbor scene.

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SKU: BM8090 Category: James E Buttersworth

Yacht Race In New York Harbor by James E Buttersworth - hand-painted oil reproduction

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Nineteenth-century marine painting found one of its sharpest practitioners in James E Buttersworth, an artist who worked within the realist tradition of ship portraiture while giving his harbor scenes a charge of movement rarely matched by his contemporaries. Yacht Race In New York Harbor sits at the center of that practice, a canvas built around speed, water, and the competitive spirit of American sailing in its great age.

About Yacht Race in New York Harbor

The composition favors the yachts themselves, their sails caught at the angle that best shows hull and rigging against open sky. Buttersworth arranges these forms with a sure sense of scale, letting the lead boats claim the strongest light while trailing vessels recede into softer tone and looser brushwork. Water is handled with particular skill: small, broken strokes suggest chop and current without ever slowing the eye down, and the harbor light, often a cool grey-blue touched with warmer passages near the horizon, gives the whole scene a specific time of day rather than a generic maritime backdrop.

This picture belongs to the period when Buttersworth had settled into the yacht-racing subjects that made his reputation among American collectors, working in a smaller format that rewards close looking as much as broad appreciation. Every rope and reflection is placed with intent, and the pictorial order beneath the surface detail keeps the eye moving through the fleet rather than resting on a single vessel. It is a disciplined kind of realism, precise about rigging and hull form yet loose enough in its water and sky to feel alive.

ByMuseum recreates this composition as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, built layer by layer on artist-grade canvas rather than printed in a single pass. A trained painter matches the palette Buttersworth used for water and sail, keeping the visible brushwork and the raised texture of oil paint that give the original its sense of motion. The result is a museum quality reproduction meant to be examined at close range, where the marks of the hand are still there to find.

The hand-painted reproduction

Hung in a study or a hallway with steady light, the picture keeps offering small rewards: a reflection noticed only after weeks, the exact lean of a hull previously overlooked. That slow unfolding is part of what a painted surface gives that a flat print cannot.

Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed reproduction
Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
Gallery-ready presentation on request
Certificate of authenticity included
Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days

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Yacht Race In New York Harbor

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