Application and embroidery. 'Robert af Nordmaling Capt. S.P. Svensson'. Original mahogany frame. Labelled on verso. Total 66 x 91 cm.
Not examined out of frame. Minor damages. Faded.
Thomas Willis was a Danish-American based in New York who specialised in creating ship portraits in silk, so-called "silk pictures."
The barkentine Robert was built at the Skeppsholmen shipyard in Nordmaling in 1875 for NS AB.