Category: Marine Artr
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14 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #32
Claude Monet, (1840 – 1926) Study Of Boats (Aka Ships In Harbour), 1873 Oil on canvas 91 cm wide by 74 cm high (36” by 29”) Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions…
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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…
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09 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #30
Joseph Mallord William Turner Ships a Sea, getting a Good Wetting, 1844 Oil on canvas J. Paul Getty Museum Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated…
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15 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #29
Henri Le Sidaner, 1862 – 1939 BATEAUX DANS LA LAGUNE/ BOATS IN THE LAGOON, ETAPLES, c. 1885 Oil on wood panel 6 1/4 by 10 1/2 in., 15.9 by 26.7 cm Painted in 1885. Private Collection Étaples or Étaples-sur-Mer is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is a fishing and leisure port on…
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10 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #28
Adolf Fessler, 1826 – 1885, RUSSIAN THE ENTRANCE TO THE GOLDEN HORN, CONSTANTINOPLE Oil on canvas 44.5 by 97cm., 17½ by 38¼in. Private Collection Fessler Adolf Ivanovich, 1826 – 1885 was born in Bohemia, but began studying in Feodosia Aivazovsky. After graduating from the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture never returned to the city.…
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12 Paintings, tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes # 3
John William Whiteley, (1859 – 1936) A Sail, c. 1898 John William Whiteley, 1859 – 1936, was a British artist at the beginning of the last century. He is known for his paintings of nude figures and landscapes. He exhibited nine works at the Royal Academy between 1882 and 1900 including ‘Under the Cliffs’, ‘A…
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11 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #28
Pierre Bonnard , French, 1867 – 1947 The Port Of Cannes, Le Port de Cannes, c. 1926 – 1927 Oil, canvas Private Collection Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune of France located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes…
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10 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #27
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1863 – 1923 Arrival of the Boats, c. 1898 Oil on canvas Private Collection Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by…
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12 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #26
William H. Yorke, (British, 1847-1921) Canadian Brigantine *Aeronaut* from Nova Scotia, ca. 1888 Oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm (24 by 36 inch) North American Collection The Aeronaut flies the Canadian Merchant ensign with a crest in the middle of the red field. The crest, adopted in the mid 1880s, differentiates it from the British…
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14 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #23
Frederick Tudgay, John Tudgay Battle of Heligoland, c. 1864 Oil on canvas 35-1/2 x 58-3/4 in. (90.1 x 149.2 cm.) Private Collection The Battle of Heligoland (or Helgoland) was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second War of Schleswig between the navy of Denmark and the navy of Austria. The latter’s ally, Prussia, sent…
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14 Classic Works of Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, # 25
Franz Emil Krause, 1836-1900 Cutter in Harbour with sailing boat approaching, Oil on canvas 24 x 39.4 cm (9.5 x 15.5 ins) Private collection A cutter can be either a small- or medium-sized vessel whose occupants exercise official authority. Examples are harbor pilots’ cutters and cutters of the U.S. Coast Guard, or UK Border Force……
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10 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #22
WILLIAM FORMBY HALSALL, (American, 1841-1919) ON THE HIGH SEAS Oil on canvas 30 x 62 in., frame: 45 x 77 in. Private collection William Formby Halsall (born 1841) was a marine painter born in Kirkdale, England. He lived at Provincetown, Massachusetts and died as a US citizen in 1919. Halsall was educated in Boston, Massachusetts and…
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