Tag: artist
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag, SHIPS AT SEA, 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #201
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter born in Groningen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856, and when they inherited a fortune from her father, Mesdag retired at the age of 35 to pursue a career…
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Joseph Steininger; Abaft 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #200
Joseph Steininger is an artist and innovator. Using intricately detailed and hand-cut stencils applied with spray paint, his personal work is influenced by street art culture and printmaking. Using the traditional and time-honored forms of fine art, his pieces are remarkably complex and masterfully represent this contemporary medium. Though spray paint is still seen by many…
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Jock MacInnes; SEAGULLS’ SALUTE. 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #197
Jock MacInnes R.G.I. (Scottish B.1943) studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he graduated in 1966. Like many Artists Jock MacInnes spent his early career teaching Art – in his case at the Glasgow School of Art. Throughout his time teaching Jock continued with his own painting regularly exhibiting and winning art Awards and Scholarships.…
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Joaquin Sorolla; Sewing the Sail 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #193
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was born in Valencia. He and his younger sister were orphaned 2 years later when both their parents died from a cholera outbreak. From an early age it was clear that Sorolla had a passion for art. Instead of academic study, the young Sorolla would spend his…
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Paul SIGNAC, La Rochelle 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #185
La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. La Rochelle was founded during the 10th century and became an important harbour in the 12th century.] The establishment of La Rochelle as a harbour was…
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Moses Kisling; Port of Saint Tropez 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #186
Saint-Tropez is a town on the French Riviera, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southeastern France. Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first town on this coast to be liberated during World War…
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Jacob Adriaensz Bellevois; Stormy Seas 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #183
Jacob Adriaensz Bellevois (1621, Rotterdam – 1676, Rotterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age marine painter. His teacher is not known, but the influence of Julius Porcellis (c. 1609–1645), who worked in Rotterdam, seems apparent in the monochrome tendencies evident in his style. Bellevois presumably lived and worked in Rotterdam at least until after the death of…
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Alicia Savage, Waiting Sails 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #182
Alicia Savage is a Boston fine art photographer and illustrator. Her self-portrait series, “Destinations”, is an organic exploration and evolving documentation of her present and past. Inspired by her curiosity and fueled by her imagination she investigates significant aspects of family history and the subsequent places she finds herself with in her multi-faceted life. Utilizing herself…
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Attributed to Kasper van Eyck, A naval battle 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #172
Gaspar or Casper van Eyck (bapt. 6 February 1613 in Antwerp – bef. December 1674 in Brussels), was a Flemish painter of marine subjects and sea-fights.Van Eyck was received into the Guild of St. Luke in 1632. He traveled to Genova, where he collaborated with Cornelis de Wael. From 1656 until his death he worked…
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Edward Aubrey Hunt; Shipping in a heavy swell 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #146
Edward Aubrey Hunt, 1855 – 1922, was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Educated at Weymouth, Boston, Mass. and entered the architectural firm of Emerson & Fehmer but decided to take art as a career and admitted to L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and studied in there for five years. He returned to London in 1878…
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Montague Dawson, The Q. 9. Mary B. Mitchell 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #170
The Mary B Mitchell was a British and later an Irish schooner, affectionately known as Mary B.. She was a pleasure craft, a war hero, a working schooner, a film star and a transporter of essential cargoes in dangerous waters. Built in 1892 she carried slate from Wales. In 1912 she was acquired by Lord Penrhyn…
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Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, A MERCHANTMAN OFF VEERE 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #219
Veere is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the region of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland. Wolfert Van Borssele established a ferry and ferry house there in 1281. In the same year Wolfert also built the castle Sandenburg on one of the dikes he had built. On 12 November 1282, Count Floris V. thereupon…
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Charles Napier Hemy, The Shrimper’s Return 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #169
Small-scale local fishery for shrimp and prawns has existed for centuries and continues to form a large proportion of the world’s shrimp fisheries. Trawling increased in scale with the introduction of otter boards, which use the flow of water to hold the trawling net open, and the introduction of steam-powered vessels, replacing the earlier sail-powered…
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Wilson Irvine; Low Tide 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #213
Wilson Henry Irvine (28 February 1869 – 1936) was a master American Impressionist landscape painter. Irvine spent his early career near Chicago, a product of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Irvine also painted across Western Europe — where he produced outstanding American Impressionist versions of the local countryside. Irvine is best known for his…
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Adolf Heinrich Wriggers; Port Of Hamburg 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #212
The Port of Hamburg is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. The port is almost as old as the history of Hamburg itself. Founded on 7 May 1189 by Frederick I for its strategic location, it has been Central Europe’s main port for centuries…
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Henry Bacon, La Bretagne 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #211
SS La Bretagne was an ocean liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique from her launch in 1886 to 1912, sailing primarily in transatlantic service on the North Atlantic. Sold to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique in 1912, she sailed for that company under her original name and, later, as SS Alesia on France–South America routes.…
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Allaert van Everdingen, A shipwreck on a rocky coast 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #210
Allaert van Everdingen, (born June 18, 1621, Alkmaar, the Netherlands—died November 8, 1675, Amsterdam), Dutch painter and engraver known for his landscapes recalling the scenery of Scandinavia. According to the Dutch art historian Arnold Houbraken, Everdingen studied under Roelant Savery at Utrecht and under Pieter de Molijn at Haarlem. He eventually settled in Amsterdam. His…
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PELEG FRANKLIN BROWNELL, BONAVENTURE ISLAND 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #207
Though Peleg Franklin Brownell found his favourite sketching grounds close to his home in Ottawa, he also explored and created works set in the areas of the Lower St. Lawrence, the Little Saguenay River and the Gaspé Peninsula. Brownell’s works exhibit great technical ability. His landscapes, which arise out of vigourously applied brushstrokes, are thoughtfully…
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John Lowrie Morrison, PUFFER ON THE CRINAN CANAL 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #198
The Clyde puffer is a type of small coal-fired and single-masted cargo ship, built mainly on the Forth and Clyde canal, and which provided a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides of Scotland. Characteristically these boats had bluff bows, crew’s quarters with table and cooking stove in the focsle, and a single mast…
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John La Farge, FISHING PARTY 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #18g
On October 5, 1890, in the second month of their fifteen month voyage to the South Seas, John La Farge and his friend Henry Adams arrived off Samoa. They spent most of their time on the island of Upolu, where they stayed in a guest house in the village of Vaiala and accompanied many excursions…
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