Tag: Adolf von Meckel
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Anthony Thieme, Harbour Scene 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #220
Anthony Thieme (20 February 1888 – 6 December 1954) was a landscape and marine painter and a major figure of the Rockport (MA) School of American regional art. Born in Rotterdam on 20 February 1888, Thieme studied at the Academie of Fine Arts in Rotterdam for two years and then, briefly, at the Royal Academy, the Hague.…
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Adolf von Meckel, FISHERMEN ON LAKE MARIOUT, EGYPT – 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #118
Adolf von Meckel, 1856 – 1893, GERMAN FISHERMEN ON LAKE MARIOUT, EGYPT, c. 1889 Oil on canvas 200 by 270cm., 78¾ by 106in. Private collection Lake Mariout is a brackish lake in northern Egypt. The lake area covered 200 km² and had a navigable canal at the beginning of the 20th century, but at the…