William Howard Yorke: The Canadian Ship “Monrovia”

The Canadian Ship “Monrovia” by William Howard Yorke.  Signed lower right “W. H. Yorke/Liverpool.”  Oil on canvas, 23″ x 35-1/2″, in a reproduction marine frame,

The “Monrovia” was built at St. John’s, New Brunswich, in 1878.

See p. 235, Dictionary of Sea Painters by E. H. Archibald.   William Howard Yorke (1847-1921), son of William Gay Yorke (1817-1882), famous English ship painter.  Born St. John’s, New Brunswick, Yorke appears to have been his father’s pupil and was active as a ship portraitist in Liverpool from around 1865.  Represented at The Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England; Mystic Seaport; Peabody Museum; and The Maritime Museum, San Francisco.