Robert Spring: Put to the Torch, CSS Florida and Clippership Jacob Bell Large Certificate of authenticity available upon

Certificate of authenticity available upon request

Framed in archival materials January 2025

The composition rises from small figures along the foreground shore to the clustered village buildings and ultimately to the soaring abbey silhouette above

archival materials

‘Femme en Chemise’ is the first work by this important artist exclusively for patrons of Associated American Artists

Robert Spring: Put to the Torch, CSS Florida and Clippership Jacob Bell Large Certificate of authenticity available uponOriginal watercolor signed by artist. The merchant ship Jacob Bell was in the West Indies, bound from Foochow, China, to New York, with a valuable cargo when she was captured by CSS Florida on 12 February 1863. She was burned the next day.