Ship and Castle, Old Folk Art Oil on Wood Panel Painting removed face As with early primers

As with early primers

4 1/16" t x 2 7/8" w x 1 1/2" d

of fine Lisbon sugar cost me 58l

I purchased this directly from a seller in Russia when it was still winter

--and in a really nice old black-painted wooden frame

Ship and Castle, Old Folk Art Oil on Wood Panel Painting removed face As with early primersPart of what I love about this oil on wood panel painting is its succinctness: just a ship sailing across the sea toward a castle on the coast. Perhaps at sea for quite a long time and just about to achieve its destiny, or perhaps it will sail on by, as that fortress looks rather formidable! (And, indeed, it seems a bit like a metaphorical dual between darkness and light, progress and stasis, going on here.) Late 19th early 20th c. I'd think and