Collections
Oil on canvas, 41 x 51cm
This atmospheric portrayal shows the Booth Line Hildebrand in a starboard quarter view on the Amazon. The vessel is in the centre of the canvas, framed by the trees and shrubs on the riverbanks.
Hildebrand was built in 1911 for the Booth Steamship Company of Liverpool. She was named after the German ecclesiastic who became Pope Gregory VII. She was for many years the largest ship in the fleet and was the mainstay of the passenger service to Para and Manaos in Brazil, with accommodation for 218 first class and 406 third class passengers. After serving as an armed merchant cruiser during the First World War, she was laid up in 1932 and broken up two years later.