Oil on canvas in original frame
Circa 1895
34” wide x 261/2 ” high (including frame)
Dr David Jenkins, Principal Curator at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea kindly supplied the following:
This is the 469 gross ton barquentine ‘Daisy’, completed at Grand River on Prince Edward Island in May 1893 by
James Yeo junior, youngest son of the remarkable James Yeo who emigrated from north Devon to the island in 1827
and came to dominate the island’s business and political life through a combination of sheer hard work – and not a
little subterfuge! The family is admirably covered in the fascinating book ‘Westcountrymen on Prince Edward’s Isle’
by Basil Greenhill & Ann Giffard
Comparative literature: West Countrymen in Prince Edward’s Isle: A fragment of the Great Migration. By Basil Greenhill
and Ann Giffard. University of Toronto Press 1979
The Pierhead Painters: Naive Ship-portrait painters, 1750 – 1950 by Roger Finch, Hutchinson 1983

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