Featured Nautical Oil - Age and Signature... Period Costumes?

This is just getting ready to pop right off the canvas, but mostly intact. Looking closely at the crew - are they wearing some kind of dusters?? With goggles? I'd think dusters would put it circa 1900?

Nice details on sails and Flags, but somewhat clunky and primitive. Very dirty.

Size 16" x 20"

On signature I see John H Richards

 

I'm seeing James H Richards

 

O, right - you are correct

 

@Jivvy
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I see James H. Ri??ar?s.

 

Any opinions on age, subject or clothing on those creepy guys?

 

I guess "sailboat" would work better than "nautical"

 

The back of the canvas looks newer than I would have guessed.

guys make me think of:

 

Right?? Very swarthy. I think not Mainliners...

Two masted schooner?

Don't know anything about boa... er, SHIPS I'll ask a friend.

Looks old irl (canvas)

Thanks, @Jivvy

 

The resident sailboat man guesses that the weird coats are a poor representation of foul weather gear.

He also suggested that the artist had never been on a sailboat.

 

Nor I, obviously lol

I think dusters (of that era) were a kind of apron for physical or "athletic" escapades, like cycling or driving an auto-mobile..



In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both men and women wore dusters to protect their clothes when riding in open motorcars on the dirt roads of the day.[1] wiki

Earlier they were used by cowboys on the range

 

Thanks! @i need help

Not sig?

 

Not sure sig really matters... If I could figure out the locale, maybe.

To me, this type of sailing would be a leasure activity, indulged in by people of means and time...

 

I can agree with Jivvy's sailboat man. "Artist" was never on a sailboat - and can't draw or paint the human body either.

 

They look like Cuban slickies running whiskey in the prohibition era!

 

Nice bit o' folk art - Naive school.

 

Thanks @blooey

The lack of realism doesn't bother me, at all