Susan Emma Brock (American, 1852-1937)

Lived/Active: Nantucket, Massachusetts

Clipper Ship Midnight off Cape Horn, 1880

Signed and dated (l.r.): S. Brock, 80

Oil on canvas

16” x 24”, 22” x 28” (frame)

Overall in fine condition, some craquelure and stretcher mark along upper edge, light abrasion lower left, relined, no visible inpainting under UV light.

Provenance: From the collection of Donald F. Moylan

Susan Emma Brock (American, 1852-1937) was the daughter of mariner George H. Brock (1826-1908), who captained the whaling vessel Midnight around Cape Horn around 1858, with six-year-old Susan aboard. She became a scholar, music teacher, and later, a cofounder of the Nantucket Historical Association, serving as its curator and emerita from 1897 until 1929. Her recollections of her childhood voyage are compiled in Doubling Cape Horn, first published in 1926 by the Inquirer and Mirror Press, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

$15,000