Arnold Böcklin
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
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This painting is ice white, black and warm wood, and a cheap copy flattens the ice. Our Collier Henry Hudson print was graded from a high-resolution master so the iceberg and the faces stay sharp.
Stretched canvas. Printed on cotton canvas and stretched taut over a frame. The edges are mirror-wrapped, so the picture continues around the sides and none of it is lost to the fold.
Framed canvas. The same canvas, set in a black, white, natural wood or dark wood frame 0.83 in deep. The frame gives the work a finished edge and a little more presence on the wall.
Framed print. Printed on fine art matte paper and framed in solid pine, behind shatterproof plexiglass, in black, white, natural wood or dark wood. It arrives ready to hang. Framed sizes are measured on the outside of the frame.
Fine art print. Printed on 310gsm fine art matte paper, for framing your own way. It travels rolled and protected. From 18x24 inch.
16x20 inch, 24x30 inch, 32x40 inch. Framed sizes are measured on the outside of the frame, so the visible painting is a little smaller.
Its tall shape suits a study, a hallway or a living room wall. The whites and browns look rich with cream, slate and walnut, and a black or natural oak frame suits it.
About the painting
In June 1611 Henry Hudson’s crew mutinied in Hudson Bay. They set him, his son and a few others adrift in a small boat. No one knows what became of them.
Collier shows Hudson in black, grey-bearded, at the rudder, staring ahead and holding his son’s hand. Beside them a man huddles under a fur. Behind rise an iceberg and snowy mountains.
Collier painted it in 1881, when the search for the Northwest Passage still fascinated Britain. It has been in the Tate since that year.
A small open boat drifts among the ice. At the tiller sits a grey-bearded man in black, staring ahead. At his feet a boy holds his hand. Beside them a sailor huddles under a fur. Behind them rises a great white iceberg, and snowy mountains.
The man is Henry Hudson, the English explorer, searching for a passage through the Arctic.
In June 1611, in the bay that now carries his name, his crew mutinied. They put Hudson, his young son and a few others into a small boat, and sailed away.
No one knows what happened to them. It is thought they died of cold or hunger.
John Collier painted this scene in 1881. He was thirty-one, a judge's son trained in Paris and Munich, about to become one of the best-known portrait painters in Britain.
At the time, the search for the Northwest Passage still gripped the British public. The painting went into the Tate the year it was painted.
Look at Hudson's hand in his son's.
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson. John Collier, 1881.
Faithful to the original, and made to be felt on your wall.
We compare every work with the original as we grade it, keeping the artist’s colours true while bringing back their depth and glow. Every mark stays the artist’s own.
Printed to order on cotton canvas or fine art paper, then framed if you chose a frame, in 1 to 3 business days.
It arrives 5 to 12 business days later, tracked and free anywhere in the US. Framed pieces come ready to hang.
No. The original hangs in a museum. What you receive is a fine art reproduction, remastered from the original and printed for you, with every mark where the artist left it.
This is where most reproductions disappoint, and it is where we spend the most time. Each work is graded side by side with the original: faithful to the artist’s colours, with the depth and warmth brought back, so it moves you on the wall the way it was meant to. Canvas reads a touch softer than a backlit screen, and every screen shows colour a little differently.
Each size is a standard frame size, so we fit the painting by trimming a little from its edges. We never stretch or squash it, and we check every size by eye so no face, figure or signature is cut. On canvas the edges are mirror-wrapped, which keeps the whole picture on the front.
Aim for about two-thirds the width of the furniture beneath it. Over a sofa or a sideboard, one of the two largest sizes will hold the wall. The size guide lists every size in inches and centimetres, with the kind of wall each one suits.
Your piece is printed in 1–3 business days, then spends 5–12 business days in transit, tracked all the way. Delivery is free anywhere in the US. We are unable to deliver to PO boxes.
Send us a photograph and we will remake it and send it again. There is nothing to return.
Yes, within 30 days of delivery. Our returns policy has the details.
Printed to order
Graded against the original, then printed for you on cotton canvas or fine art paper in 1–3 business days.
The whole painting
Every mark is the artist’s own, and canvas edges are mirror-wrapped so the whole picture stays on the front.
Free US shipping
On every order, tracked, 5–12 business days in transit.
30-day returns
Returns and exchanges within 30 days of delivery.