Charles Sidney Raleigh (1830March 28, 1925) was a British-American painter born in Gloucester, England.
Early life and career Charles Sidney Raleigh was born in 1831 in Gloucester, England; he ran away when he was ten years old to sea and boarded a naval ship commanded by his uncle. He served in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and later became a merchant navy. In 1887 he got married and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Raleigh was a self-taught artist who was an expert in ship portraits in the folk art tradition.
He also became a house painter and decorator. Raleigh often advertised himself as a “house, sign, ornamental, and carriage painter", although he painted over six hundred paintings of vessels. Raleigh's most famous painting is the Law of the Wild, painted in 1881.
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