Schooner joseph g. Dean, by charles s. Raleigh. This was a direct commissioned portrait of the east coast schooner joseph g. Dean, as the three-masted coastal schooner rides her full sails off the massachusetts coast. Note the fine details of the men on deck, with captain zabina h. Chase onboard. Chase was a primary owner alongside of members of the dean and russell families, all of new bedford, where the ship was built by carpenter david clark in the dean & driggs yard at merrill’s wharf in 1882. Family members owned part of her interest with captain chase, and named her after the shipyard’s founder, joseph g. Dean, who started fitting out new bedford whaleships in 1836. She measures 155. 65 feet in length. Provenance: descended through the dean family by marriage to the russell family of new bedford whalers, from 1883 down to private collection, dana point, california, 2006. Date: 1883.
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