There’s something special about seeing two historic ships sharing the same stretch of water, and Anthony D. Blake captures that magic perfectly in his painting of the yacht America passing the USS Constitution near Newport, Rhode Island in 1865. Blake, a New Zealander born in 1951, has a real gift for maritime art. He’s known […]
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