Category: Marine Artr
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #89
Jack Laycox, (1921 – 1984 San Francisco, CA) “Beach at Honfleur”, France Watercolor on Arches paper 22.25″ H x 29.5″ W Private collection Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the…
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02 CLASSIC MARINE PAINTINGS, THE LOWER POOL – WITH FOOTNOTES, #52
Charles Edward Dixon, 1872 – 1934 The Lower Pool, 1902 Watercolour 27 x 78 cm. Private collection 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…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #86
Winslow Homer, (1836–1910) The Fisher Girl, c. 1894 Oil on canvas 71.8 × 71.8 cm (2.3 × 2.3 ft) Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #85
Oswald Achenbach, (German, 1827-1905) View of Ischia with the Aragonese castle Oil on canvas 64.5 x 89cm (25 3/8 x 35 1/16in). Private collection Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the city of Naples. It is…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #84
Samuel Owen, (1769 – 8 December 1857) Unloading the catch Watercolour 14 x 19cm; 5½ x 7½in Private collection Samuel Owen (1769 – 8 December 1857) was an English marine painter and illustrator. Nothing is recorded of him before 1791, when he exhibited “A Sea View” at the Royal Academy. This was followed in 1797,…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #83
Edward William Cooke A pilot boat off the North Foreland Oil on board 18 x 29cm; 7 x 11½in Private collection A pilot boat is used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting. North Foreland[ is a chalk headland on the Kent coast of southeast England;…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #82
Lionel Percy Smythe, RA, RWS, RI, ROI (British, 1839-1918) The mussel gatherer, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 92.1 x 64.2cm (36 1/4 x 25 1/4in). Private collection The best moment to do gather mussels is during a low spring tide. When the water goes as low as a meter under, the surf rocks will be exposed…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #81
Nicola D’Ascenzo (Pennsylvania / Italy, 1871-1954) Harbor scene, c. 1904 Watercolor 17 x 13 in. Private collection Nicola D’Ascenzo (September 25, 1871, Torricella Peligna, Italy – April 13, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an Italian-born American stained glass designer, painter and instructor. He is best known for creating stained glass windows for the Washington Memorial Chapel in…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #80
William Edward Webb, (1862 – 1903) Rough seas near the coast Oil/Canvas 19.25 x 29.25 in Private collection William Edward Webb (British, 1862-1903). A permanent resident of Manchester, he widely frequented the coasts and ports of Great Britain, producing an impressive output of active scenes celebrating the challenges faced by those who plied their trades…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #78
Ivana Vostrakova Czech Republic Little dancer and the sea Photography: Digital, Manipulated and Color on Canvas. 29.5 H x 39.4 W x 0.8 in Private collection Ivana Vostrakova: Minimalist strong composition and clear lines are typical for Ivana Vostrakova’s work. They apply mainly in the minimalist graphical shortcuts. They are, in some cases, moreover enriched by…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #77
Andres Vivo, Uruguay Ketch and Yawls Oil on Paper 8.5 H x 11.8 W x 0 in Private collection A yawl is a two-masted sailing craft whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast). Compared to a similar sized ketch, a yawl’s mizzen mast is set further aft and its mizzen sail is smaller.…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #76
Charles Edward Dixon ‘An Elizabethan Trader’ Watercolour 19 x 13in. Private collection European exploration of other continents began well before the Elizabethan Era, the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) that is often considered to be a golden age in English history. Since Italian explorer Marco Polo (1254–1324) first ventured to Asia…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #74
Raymond Massey, British/American, b. 1938 Ferry to Brooklyn, New Amsterdam in 1660, 1981 Oil on Masonite 25 7/8 x 42 inches (65.8 x 106.6 cm) Private collection New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. The fort was…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #95
A 8-1/2 inch “Mariner” clock for the yacht Sumar Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, MA., for Tiffany and Co., circa 1926 25 x 20 x 8-1/2 in. (63.5 x 50.8 x 21.5 cm.), height x width x depth Signed below the “12” on the dial “Tiffany & Co.”, a Chelsea “Mariner” ship strike, with silvered face,…
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7 Artists Embedded with Napoleon’s Navy in the Indian Ocean. 1803
Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand, Comte de Linois (27 January 1761 – 2 December 1848) was a French admiral during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1803 Napoleon appointed him to command the French forces in the Indian Ocean and, flying his flag aboard the 74-gun-ship Marengo (ex-Jean-Jacques Rousseau), he harried British merchant ships across the ocean and into…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #73
Franz Hünten Hamburg, 1822 – Hamburg 1887 The W. Schernikau off Heligoland, c. 1860 Oil/canvas 50,5 x 71,5 cm Private collection Heligoland is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were at one time Danish and later British possessions. The islands are located in the Heligoland Bight are in the southeastern corner of…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #72
Cezary Kielar, Netherlands Girl at the seaside Oil on Canvas 19.7 H x 23.6 W x 0.8 in Private collection Cezary Kielar, Netherlands: “I take pictures, draw and paint … At the moment I paint portraits, but there is a kind of ambiguity in it. The appearance of the figures has often symbolic value, so there are…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #71
Zena Holloway, United Kingdom Sea Dance 1 Photography 23.2 H x 16.5 W x 0.1 in Private collection Haenyeo (sea women) are female divers in the Korean province of Jeju. Known for their independent spirit, iron will and determination, the haenyeo are representative of the semi-matriarchal family structure of Jeju. Jeju’s diving tradition dates back to 434…
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