Category: Marine Artr
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01 Marine Work, Henry Scott’s Night watch – Foochow, With Footnotes #323
Sold for US$14,025 in May 2022 Fuzhou, alternately Romanised as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong (lit. Eastern Fujian) linguistic and cultural area. Henry Scott F.R.S.A, 1911-2005, British, was a painter…
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01 Marine Work, Werner Drewes’ Maine Harbor, With Footnotes, #322
Sold for $7,500.00 in May 2019 Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional…
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01 Marine Work, George Savary Wasson’s Seascape with Ships, With Footnotes, #319
Sold for $800.00 in May 2019George Savary Wasson 1855-1932; was from a shipbuilding and seafaring family in Brooksville, Maine, George Wasson’s father was a prominent Transcendentalist minister whose church was that of Thoreau and Emerson. His grandfather and uncle built and owned ships. From 1873- 1875, when his father went to Germany to study religion,…
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01 Marine Work, William Edward Norton’s Marine View, With Footnotes, #318
Sold for $2,500.00 in May 2019William Edward Norton (1843-1916), American. Born in Boston to a New England family of shipbuilders, Norton’s interest in ships led him initially to a career at sea. After his sea service, he enrolled at both Harvard Medical School and the Lowell Institute, where his interest in art led him to study under…
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01 Painting, Marine Art, The Art of War, Yevgeny Kravtsov’s The Naval Battle of Athos, with Footnotes, #40
During the Russo-Turkish War, fought between 1806-1812, the Naval Battle of Athos occurs on June 19th 1807. A Russian fleet commanded by Admiral Dmitry Nikolayevich Senyavin, attacked and destroyed an Ottoman fleet of some 20 naval vessels under Kapudan Pasha (Ottoman Admiral) Seyit-Ali, between the Athos peninsula and the island of Lemnos, in Greece. As a…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Chikanobu Yôshû’s Japanese Fleet Landing Weiheiwei, with footnotes
The Battle of Weihaiwei took place between 20 January and 12 February 1895, during the First Sino-Japanese War in Weihai, Shandong Province, China, between the forces of Japan and Qing China. In early January 1895, the Japanese landed forces in eastern Shandong positioning forces behind the Chinese naval base at Weihaiwei. Through a well-coordinated offensive of…
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02 Works, The art of War, Francesco Verio’s Journey in vain hopes, with Footnotes
More than 2,500 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, while approximately 186,000 people have arrived in European countries during the same period… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Work, GEORGE SAVARY WASSON’s USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, With Footnotes, #320
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War. The significantly more powerful US Navy squadron, consisting of four…
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03 Marine Works, Frederick (Frank) William Scarbrough’s Pool of London, With Footnotes #317
The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse. Part of the Tideway of the Thames, the Pool was navigable by tall-masted vessels bringing coastal and later overseas goods — the wharves there were the original part of the Port of London… Please follow link for full post
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01 MARINE ART, AFÉLIX ZIEM’S L’ESCAUT À ANVERS, WITH FOOTNOTES #316
Sold for USD 6,300 in Apr 2022L’Escaut à Anvers is a 350-kilometre-long river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea. Félix Ziem (February 26, 1821 – November 10, 1911) was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School. He was born…
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01 Marine Art, ANGE-JOSEPH-ANTOINE ROUX’s ACTION BETWEEN FRIGATES, With Footnotes #315
Bayonnaise was a 24-gun corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1793. Bayonnaise was being built as a privateer when the Ministry of Marine requisitioned her in 1793 before she sailed. The Ministry assumed the construction contracts and purchased her in March 1794. Her hull was coppered in 1795 in Brest. She was officially renamed Brême…
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01 Painting, Marine Art, ANGE-JOSEPH-ANTOINE ROUX’s ACTION BETWEEN FRIGATES, With Footnotes #314
Sold for $1,200 in August 2017 HMS Ambuscade was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in 1773. The French captured her in 1798 but the British recaptured her in 1803. She was broken up in 1810. On 13 December 1798, Ambuscade captured a French merchantman, Faucon, with a cargo of sugar and coffee bound for…
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01 MARINE ART, PAUL SIGNAC’S ROSCOFF , WITH FOOTNOTES #313
Sold for 63,000 EUR in March 2022In the 19th century, Roscoff traded in cloth, salt and wood… even onions exported to England. Everything in its historic centre evokes the wealth of maritime trade: from the church hidden away in its garden to the opulent granite dwellings; from the boats sculpted out of stone to the turrets in…
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01 Marine Art, Feliks Wygrzywalski’s Girl Waiting for a Fisherman , With Footnotes, #312
Sold for PLN 48,000 in October 2021 Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski (20 November 1875, Przemyśl – 5 September 1944, Rzeszów) was a Polish painter; remembered primarily for his Orientalist scenes and portraits. He also created a significant number of nudes. Thanks to a scholarship from the Malinowski Foundation, he was able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts…
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05 Marine Paintings, Henryk Epstein’s Port in Erbalunga, Cap Corse on Corsica, With Footnotes #311
Erbalunga or Erbalonga is an ancient fishing village on Cap Corse, in the municipality of Brando in the French department of Haute-Corse, Corsica. The village of Erbalonga is the most northerly coastal settlement of Cap Corse, with vertiginous roads and sloping maquis beyond… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Art, The Battle of the USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack (Virginia), With Footnotes #310
Julian Oliver Davidson (December 27, 1853–April 30, 1894) was a 19th-century American marine artist and illustrator from Nyack, New York. He best known works of the famous naval battles of the American Civil War. Davidson’s works were exhibited at the Hudson River Museum, New-York Historical Society and the National Academy of Design in the 1870s and…
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01 Painting, Marine Art, Carlos Nadal’s Dieppe. With Footnotes #309
Sold for £21,420 in Mar 2022 Dieppe is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. A port on the English Channel, at the mouth of the river Arques, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century…
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01 Marine Art, James Browning Wyeth’s Surf Watchers, with Footnotes #308
Sold for 151,200 USD in May 2022 Surf Watchers depicts the artist’s wife, Phyllis Mills Wyeth, leaning out of the Dutch door at the front of their house on Monhegan Island in Maine, where the work was painted. More on this painting James Browning Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew…
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01 Marine Painting, John Jack Robert Charles Spurling’s P. & O. Steamship ‘Soudan, with Footnotes #288
Soudan SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 6,677 tons built in 1931 by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow, for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company as the SOUDAN SS. She was powered by a Steam turbine with Bauer Wach exhaust system. Soudan struck a mine and sank off Cape Town. The mine was probably…
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01 Marine Painting, Thomas Whitcombe’s Action between Aigle & Sirene, with Footnotes #287
This painting is unusual in depicting ships engaged in battle while carrying full sails, including their studded sails. It was difficult to man the guns and set the full complement of sails. Full sail was needed here because the ships were engaged in a chase. Aigle (a 5th rate ship with 36 guns; under the command of…