Danish painter's contemporary view of a tragedy offered in Vienna
A tragic shipwreck provided the Danish marine painter Anton Melbye and his colleague John William Bottomley, a German of Irish origin, with a dramatic subject for their 2ft x 2ft 11in (60 x 90cm) oil painting The Wreck of the Anglo Saxon from 1863.
This was a tragedy that occurred on April 27 of the very same year. The steamship Anglo Saxon, en …