Tag: artist
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Virginie Demont-Breton, FISHERMAN’S WIFE COMING TO BATH HER CHILDREN 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #194
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter. Her artistic career got off to an early start due to her having family ties with painters. By the age of twenty, she was exhibiting at the Salon where she received an Honorable Mentions and, four years later,…
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Egon Schiele, TRIESTE FISHING BOAT 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #195
Trieste is a city and a seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of Italian territory lying between the Adriatic Sea and Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city. It is also located near Croatia. Egon Schiele (German: 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was…
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Andrzej Wroński; Return 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #196
Andrzej Wronski, born in Chrzanow in 1942. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1968.. Involved in painting, graphics. His works were displayed at both individual and group exhibitions, e.g. Art Studio Lines in Austria (1975), Galsbruck Gallery, Switzerland (1976), Grote Gallery, Belgium (1977), Home Art Gallery, USA (1979). He created…
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Abraham Storck, the Four Days Battle 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #158
The Four Days’ Battle was a naval battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Fought from 1 June to 4 June 1666 in the Julian or Old Style calendar then used in England off the Flemish and English coast, it remains one of the longest naval engagements in history. The Dutch inflicted significant damage on the English…
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Mary Stubberfield; Camara de lobos 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #163
Fishing boats at the harbour of Camara de Lobos near Funchal in Madeira, where Winston Churchill painted. Câmara de Lobos; literally, Portuguese chamber of the sealions, is a municipality, parish and town in the south-central coast of the island of Madeira, Portugal. The location of the modern town is believed to be the original landing point…
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Kasia Derwinska, Imagination is the only escape 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #191
Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that…
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John Charles Allcot, The Pamir in Sydney Harbour 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #127
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium’s inability to…
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William Lentz Weiss, Boston Harbor Scene 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #189
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeastern United States. Since its discovery to Europeans by John Smith in 1614, Boston Harbor has been an important port in…
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Jean Dufy, Port of Le Havre 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #187
The Port of Le Havre is the Port and port authority of the French city of Le Havre. It is the second-largest commercial port in France in terms of overall tonnage, and the largest container port, with three sets of terminals. It can accommodate all sizes of world cruise liners, and a major new marina is…
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Michael Zeno Diemer, Homeward Bound 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #132
Michael Zeno Diemer, (1867 – 1939) Homeward Bound, Oil on canvas 26.75″h x 37.25″w Private collection Michael Zeno Diemer (* 8. February 1867 in Munich ; † 28. February 1939 in Oberammergau ) was a German painter. He studied from 1884 in Munich with Gabriel Hackl and Sándor Liezen-Mayer . Diemer was known for his impressive…
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Maurice de Vlaminck, LE GARAGE À BATEAUX 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #176
Rueil-Malmaison is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of France. It is located 12.6 kilometres (8 miles) from the centre of Paris. It is one of the wealthiest suburbs of Paris. More on Rueil-Malmaison Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain…
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Felix Bonfils, Port of Beirut 01 Photograph, Marine Art – With Footnotes, #178
The Port of Beirut is the main port in Lebanon located on the eastern part of the Saint George Bay on Beirut’s northern Mediterranean coast, west of the Beirut River. The name of Beirut Port has been mentioned since the fifteenth century BC in the mutual letters of the Pharaohs and the Phoenicians, and during the…
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Aginor Asteriadis, Hydra 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #179
Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strip of water. In ancient times, the island was known as Hydrea, a reference to the natural springs on the island. There is one main…
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Georgij Aleksandrovic Lapsin, Red Sails 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #180
The typical, rusty-red colour of the flax sails was due to the dressing used to treat the sails that were permanently aloft, traditionally made from red ochre, cod oil, urine and seawater. The red ochre was there to block the ultra-violet in the sunlight from degrading the sails (much as lamp-black was used in the…
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Joe Duncan Gleason, Young America 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #177
The Young America was built by William H. Webb of New York. She was launched in 1853, at the height of the clipper construction boom. She sailed in the California trade, on transatlantic routes, and made voyages to Australia and the Far East. She set a record for the passage from Liverpool to San Francisco in…
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Spyros Vassiliou, Masts and boats 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #175
Spyros Vassiliou (1903- 03.22.1985) was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient of a Guggenheim Prize for Greece (in 1960), Spyros Vassiliou’s works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, in the…
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Wassily Kandinsky, RAPALLO: GRAUER TAG 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #174
Rapallo is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, located in the Liguria region of northern Italy. Rapallo has been known for its climate that made it over the years the winter residence of preference for most of the affluent Italians living in the North West of Italy. Its proximity to the coast makes for…
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Pavlos SAMIOS, Fishermen in a boat 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #173
Pavlos Samios (born 1948) is a Greek painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Samios was born on October 28, 1948 in Athens, Greece. As a teenager he worked at Dionysios Karoussos icon-painting studio and at the same time he attended drawing lessons under Panos Sarafianos so that he could pass the exams…
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Jack Lorimer Gray, Nova Scotian Schooner 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #171
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. The most common type has two masts, the foremast being shorter than the main. While the schooner was originally gaff-rigged, modern schooners typically carry a Bermuda rig. More on schooners Jack Lorimer Gray (April 28, 1927 — September, 1981) was a Canadian artist, known particularly…
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