PRICE REDUCED: Blackbeard’s Ghost 9 x 12" oil on canvasboard 2011 Before Blackbea

PRICE REDUCED: Blackbeard’s Ghost9 x 12" oil on canvasboard 2011Before Blackbeard was finally brought down by the pirate hunter Lieutenant Robert Maynard, they reportedly had the following exchange:Damn you for Villains, who are you? And, from whence came you? The Lieutenant made him Answer, You may see by our Colours we are no Pyrates. Black-beard bid him send his Boat on Board, that he might see who he was; but Mr. Maynard reply’d thus; I cannot spare my Boat, but I will come aboard of you as soon as I can, with my Sloop. Upon this, Black-beard took a Glass of Liquor and drank to him with these Words: Damnation seize my Soul if I give you Quarters, or take any from you. In Answer to which, Mr. Maynard told him, That he expected no Quarters from him, nor should he give him any.Blackbeard was gunned down, his head severed and hung from the bowsprit. His headless corpse is said to have spitefully swum laps around the ships before sinking.This is a portrait of the pirate king’s waterlogged ghost. The canvas has a copal varnish that makes the surface itself seem wet. The smoking cannon fuses he used to twine in his beard have been replaced with will-o-the-wisp ghostlights, which shine blue on his heavy curls.(via SWEATSHOP.tv — Blackbeard’s Ghost) -- source link

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