Category: Marine Artr
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04 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #55
Charles Edward Dixon ‘Victory Opening Fire’ at Trafalgar, 1907 Watercolour 18 x 28 cm Private collection The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on the 21st of October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar on the Spanish coast, between the combined fleets of Spain and France and the Royal Navy. It was the last great sea action of…
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03 CLASSIC MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #53
Marc-Aurèle Fortin, ARCA (1888-1970) “Port de Montréal”, c. 1928 Watercolour 9″ × 9¾” Private collection The Port of Montreal is a port and transshipment point on the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On the Saint Lawrence Seaway 1,600 kilometres inland from the Atlantic Ocean, it is on the shortest direct route from Europe and 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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05 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #48
Thomas Buttersworth, Jr, (1807-1842) Chasing a Pirate Ship Oil on canvas 15 x 20 in Private collection Thomas Buttersworth, Jr. (1807-1842), was named after his father, the well known marine painter Thomas Buttersworth Senior (1766-1841), who was to have a considerable influence on his son’s painting career. There exist few details about Thomas Junior’s private life. What…
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11 Classic Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #21
Harry Hudson Rodmell, (1896–1984) Gale Force 8: Trawler in a Rough Sea, mid-20th C–late 20th C Oil on paper marouflage on board 457 x 55.9 cm National Maritime Museum, London Harry Hudson Rodmell (28 May 1896 – 3 March 1984) was an English painter and Commercial artist, specialising in marine art. He studied at Hull School of…
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05 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #47
Edward William Cooke, RA (British, 1811-1880) ‘French Sloop entering the harbour of Tréport’ , c. 1869 Oil on canvas 81.3 x 134.6cm (32 x 53in). Private collection Le Tréport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-eastern France. A small fishing port and light industrial town situated in the Pays de…
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07 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #45
Unknown artist SS ‘Nottingham,’ c. 19th C Oil on panel 25.5 x 31.5 cm Hull Maritime Museum SS Nottingham was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1891. The ship was built by Swan Hunter in Wallsend and launched on 13 March 1891. She was placed on the Grimsby to…
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07 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #44
Charles Edward Dixon, (British, 1872–1934) Title: The white star liner “Cymric” steaming off the south coast of Ireland , 1918 Watercolor htnd w/ white 7.5 x 15 in. (19 x 38.1 cm.) Private collection White Star Line Cymric was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1898. She saw “on and off” service as…
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12 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #41
Christophe J Guise, (American, 20th C) Whaling ships Acrylic on board 61″ x 19″ Private collection A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching or processing of whales. The sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early 20th century and the floating factory. There have also been vessels which…
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09 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #42
Hernando Gonzalo Villa, (American 1881-1952) The Men Ol on canvas, 25″ x 18″ Private collection Hernando Gonzalo Villa (born 1881, died 1952) was a prominent commercial artist and muralist whose work primarily depicted Native Americans, Mexican vaqueros, California missions, Spanish colonialists, and coastal views. Villa was born in Los Angeles to Esiquia and Miguel de Villa. His…
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10 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #38
Charles Dixon Off Tilbury, c. 1912 Waterclor on paper on canvas 28.3×77.3 cm Private collection Tilbury is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England. It was established in the late 19th century, on land that was mainly part of Chadwell St Mary. It contains a 16th century fort and an ancient cross-river ferry. Tilbury…
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08 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #39
Charles Edward Dixon, (British, 1872-1934) ‘Oak, Hemp, and Powder, Trafalgar, 1805′ , c. /1920’ (lower right) Gouache 118.5 x 241cm (46 5/8 x 94 7/8in) Private collection The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the…
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08 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #37
Thomas Somerscales, 1842-1927 A SHIP OF THE LINE 100 YEARS AGO, c. 1900 Oil on canvas 70 by 106cm., 27½ by 42in. Private collection The author Alex Hurst commented, the ship’s hull paint suggests she is a little earlier than 1800, however she has double dolphin strikers which were not introduced into the British Navy until…
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10 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #36
Brian Coole, b. 1939 USS Franklin Enters New York Harbor Oil on Board 15″ x 22 1/2″, frame 23″ x 29″ Private collection USS Franklin of the United States Navy was a 74-gun ship of the line. Built in 1815, she was the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Franklin sailed…
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10 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #34
Montague Dawson, 1890 – 1973 Ships That Pass oil on canvas 28.25 x 42 in Private collection Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was a British painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries. Montague was the son of a…
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11 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #33
Montague Dawson, (1890–1973) The British Clipper Ship Thermopylae Watercolor and gouache on paper 16 1/4 x 26 in. Private Collection Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. In 1872, Thermopylae raced the clipper Cutty Sark from Shanghai back to London.…
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11 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #32
Frederick Judd Waugh, American, 1861–1940 Mid Ocean Oil on canvas 40 × 50 1/4 in. (101.6 × 127.6 cm) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Frederick Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 in Bordentown, New Jersey – September 10, 1940) was an American artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed ship…
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13 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #31
FOLLOWER OF ANGE-JOSEPH-ANTOINE ROUX, (french 1765-1835) “ACTION BETWEEN H.M FRIGATE ”AMBUSCADE” AND THE FRENCH FRIGATE ”BAYONNAISE”” Oil on canvas 23 3/8 x 30 in. (59.4 x 76.2cm) Private Collection 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.…
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13 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #30b
Charles Dixon, 1872 – 1934 The Pool, 1928 Watercolour and gouache 430 mm x 750 mm 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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