Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses Samuel C. Bird 1870 Decorative Arts seeking a cure

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Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses Samuel C. Bird 1870 Decorative Arts seeking a cureA very good antique 19th century British oil on canvas painting, seascape coastal scene by Samuel C. Bird, circa 1870. This very attractive oil on canvas painting depicts a coastal scene with a team of Shire or Draught horses pulling a ship's main mast with chains out of the sea, after a shipwreck. A figure astride one of the lead horses is looking back to guide the horses, in the distance are two more figures walking by the water's edge. The sky is