Gilbert Tucker Margeson was born in Nova Scotia and moved to Boston as a child. He was the first artist to open a studio in Rockport, Massachusetts and was well known for his marine paintings.
Margeson claimed descent from Edmund Margeson, a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and he intended this painting to be a salute to him, although Edward Margeson died the first winter, apparently without issue.

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