#35 • Sydney Laurence Oil Painting of St. Ives, Cornwall

Part of March 2025 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $5,400.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art

An early original oil painting by the late Alaska artist Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940), signed lower right as SM Laurence and dated c.1889, the same year he married Alexandrina Fredricka Dupre in New York City and relocated to the English artist's colony of St. Ives, Cornwall. It was several years later, in 1903, that he journeyed back across the Atlantic and made his way to Alaska in search of gold. This early maritime work features a series of docked sailboats, softly illuminated from the nearby buildings under a night sky. The unframed canvas measuring 17" x 21" is noted to have been relined with evidence of minor inpainting.