Frederick (Fred) Pansing (1844 - 1912) Watercolor and gouache on paper, signed lower left, measures 7.5 x 18 inches and 14.5 x 26.5 inches w/frame. Frederick Pansing was born in Bremen, Germany in 1844. His family emigrated to the United States in 1865, when Pansing was a young man, residing in New Jersey and then in New York and finally residing in Hoboken. Little is currently known about Pansing’s early education and artistic training. He joined the merchant sea force as a sailor in 1870, leaving service two years later after relocating to Hoboken, New Jersey in 1872, when he decided to become a painter, lithographer, and photographer in his later career. Pansing is widely known and appreciated for a number of accurately detailed portraits of steamships operating in the Atlantic trade routes..In 1912, Pansing completed eighteen large ship portraits from the Nantucket Steamship Company which helped to further elevate his career as one of the masters of ship portrait painting.

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