a 19th century ship in a bottle. more than a dozen portrait

more than a dozen portrait painters sailed to her island home to capture her likeness

breon set up his artist studio in a shed overlooking porthmeor beach

pierre brice

and even marriage proposals were delivered to her

a 19th century ship in a bottle. more than a dozen portraita 19th century ship in a bottle depicting a hybrid steam sail ship of the 1860's 70's. with a black painted carved wooden hull, carved masts and spars, cotton thread rigging and a centrally located painted wood red funnel with a black top, modelled sailing on a painted putty sea. the ship is housed in an oval bottle, the piece dating from the 1880's or earlier. the colour scheme of the funnel suggests that the ship has been modelled on a cunard