James E. Butterworth

Buttersworth was born in Middlesex County, England, 1817, and his first art training was under his father who was a noted British marine painter. Today it is hard to distingish between their paintings, their style so overlaped. He moved to the U.S. when he was twenty-eight, and settled in West Hoboken, New Jersey. He is a classic example of a ship portraitist, his best are of clipper ships. Later in the 19th-Century, Currier and Ives modeled their work on his compositions. (Source: SHIP PORTRAIT ARTISTS by Karsten Buchholz, published by Buchholz Art Information Systems, Hamburg, 1997, quoted on the Barnard Electronic Archive and Teaching Library, , Accessed July 7, 2004)