Lot 1444
W** KNESTON (Fl.c.1900) THE SCREW STEAMER `ABEONA` Signed, oil on canvas. 43 x 68cm. * The 275.3ft general cargo steamer was built by William Gray & Co, Hartlepool in 1886 and torpedoed by a U-Boat off Dungeness en route to Bilbao in March 1918.
Provenance: By descent in the family of a Tyneside shipwright.
++ Lined; evident craquelure; retouched damage in sea lower centre
