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Huge Oil Painting Queen Elizabeth 2 Transatlantic Cunard Liner Ship

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Calling all maritime aficionados! Get your hands on this 1 breathtakingly huge British oil painting of the legendary Queen Elizabeth 2 Transatlantic Cunard Liner Ship! Put it on your mantle and steer your conversations to the sea in style! Seriously, this eye-catching masterpiece will make a big splash at your nautical-themed events!.
Subject seascape marine portrait of the known ship QE2 in full side profile view on the high seas at sunset, sailing steaming along relatively dark water calm seas, facing right, you can see the rigging lines on the single tall mast near the bow. With views of the many cabin portholes and lifeboats along the side. You can also see the bridge and the name of the ship on the bow, also Cunard is shown further back. With dark gray skies with spots of golden light coming through overhead, with ensign flags hoisted flying high and 3 seagulls also flying above further over to the left.
Title "QE2 at Sunset".
Oil on board.
Circa late 20th century.
Set in a beautiful traditional impressive gilt frame.
Unsigned British school.
Impressive size with the frame being 127 cm wide and 88 cm high.
Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a retired British ocean liner converted into a floating hotel. Originally built for the Cunard Line, the ship, named as the second ship named Queen Elizabeth, was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was then laid up until converted and since 18 April 2018 has been operating as a floating hotel in Dubai.
Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed for the transatlantic service from her home port of Southampton, UK, to New York, United States and was named after the earlier Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth. She served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded by Queen Mary 2 in 2004. Queen Elizabeth 2 was designed in Cunard's offices in Liverpool and Southampton and built in Clyde bank, Scotland. She was considered the last of the transatlantic ocean liners until "Project Genesis" was announced by Cunard Line in 1995 after the business purchase of Cunard by Mickey Prison; chairman of Carnival and Carnival UK. Project Genesis was intended to create new life in the ocean liner saga, and in 1998, Cunard revealed the name: Queen Mary 2.
Queen Elizabeth 2 was refitted with a modern diesel power plant in 1986–87. She undertook regular world cruises during almost 40 years of service, and later operated predominantly as a cruise ship, sailing out of Southampton, England. Queen Elizabeth 2 had no running mate and never ran a year-round weekly transatlantic express service to New York. She did, however, continue the Cunard tradition of regular scheduled transatlantic crossings every year of her service life.
Queen Elizabeth 2 retired from active Cunard service on 27 November 2008. She had been acquired by the private equity arm of Dubai World, which planned to begin conversion of the vessel to a 500-room floating hotel moored at the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai. The 2008 financial crisis intervened, however, and the ship was laid up at Dubai Dry docks and later Mind Rashid. Subsequent conversion plans were announced in 2012 and then again by the Oceanic Group in 2013, but both plans stalled. In November 2015, Cruise Arabia & Africa quoted DP World chairman Ahmed Sultan Bin Slayer as saying that QE2 would not be scrapped and a Dubai-based construction company announced in March 2017 that it had been contracted to refurbish the ship. The restored QE2 opened to visitors on 18 April 2018, with a soft opening.
The QE2's length is 963 ft (293.5 m), and her beam is 105 ft (32 m). Her gross tonnage was registered as 65,863 tons, and she was able to carry 2000 passengers. Its steam turbine engines gave it a top speed of 32.5 knots (though its service speed was 28.5 knots). In 1982 the QE2 was briefly requisitioned as a troop carrier in the Falkland Islands War.
An exceptional sought after nautical collectible artwork.
Provenance from a private marine collection, ship biography verso.
Such a delightful scene to the eye a great conversation piece.
Highly sought after due to the collectible nature of subject marine matter such elaborate detail.
With 2 metal hanging wall brackets on the back.
Incredible conversation piece for your guests.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Front painting surface in good order. Having some foxing staining in places. The frame which has general wear, scuffs, scratches, stains, cracking, some chips losses in places commensurate with usage & age.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (88 cm)
Wide (127 cm)
Depth total thickness of frame (5 cm)