Adam, Edouard. 1847 Brie-Comte-Robert - 1929 Le Havre. Attributed to. The four-masted full rigged ship ''H. Bischoff'' under full sail. Circa 1890. oil/canvas, unsigned, 62 x 92 cm, small hole, restored, framed 71 x 102 cm.- Built in Glasgow in 1865 as an iron steamer and three-masted full-rigged ship ''Ville de Paris'', the ship underwent conversion to a four-masted full-rigged ship in 1888 at Blyth in England. The H. Bischoff shipping company bought the ship, which sailed on the North Atlantic route as a passenger and merchant ship from 1890 under the name H. Bischoff. On October 28, 1900, the ship, loaded with saltpetre, got into distress during a heavy storm, stranded off the mouth of the Elbe on the Großer Vogelsand and broke up.12 men lost their lives during the rescue operation. Cf. similar painting of the ship in: Ships from Bremen, Pictures and Models in the Focke Museum, p. 187.

Category: Painting-Graphics 19th-20th Century.