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Eugene Segal, Yachting Scene 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #131
Eugene Segal Yachting Scene, c. 2010 Oil on canvas. 97cm x 127cm Private collection Eugene Segal was influenced by the works of artists such as Rembrandt, Velasces, Van Deik, France Hals and fellow countrymen Vrubel and Serov. Segal paints with a pallet knife, directly on canvas. Born in 1967 Russia, Segal made the decision to become…
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Franklin Stanwood, Passing Montauk Point 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #138
Franklin Stanwood, (American, 1852-1888) Passing Montauk Point, c. 1880 Oil on canvas 18″h x 30″w Private collection Montauk Point State Park is located in the hamlet of Montauk, at the eastern tip of Long Island in New York. Montauk Point is the easternmost extremity of the South Fork of Long Island. The park contains the Montauk…
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Nicholas Harding, Beach Life 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #139
Nicholas Harding (b. 1956) Beach Life (goggles and thong) Etching and aquatint on paper 71 x 50 cm Private collection Nicholas Harding (b. 1956) is a highly regarded British-Australian artist known for his large scale painted portraits and pen and ink drawings. Harding came to Australia from England as a six-year-old. After studying for a BA…
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Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen, County of Edinburgh 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #130
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850-1921)County of Edinburgh Stranded on Point Pleasant Beach, 1900Oil on canvas18 x 30 in. (45.7 x 76.2 cm.)The Mariners’ Museum A four-masted iron and steel barque built in 1885 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions: 87,01×12,92×7.38 meters [285’6″×42’5″×24’3], tonnage: 2117 GRT and 1903 NRT. Rigged with royal sails above double…
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Marshall Joyce, Rowboat on the shore 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #129
Marshall Joyce, (1912-1998)Rowboat on the shore with boathouses and figure in the distanceOil on board18″ x 24″Private collection Marshall Woodside Joyce, painter and teacher born in Medford , MA in 1912, is best known for his seascapes, ships, landscapes, and coastal scenes. His interest in the sea was nurtured by his sea-captain father and the…
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Dixie Selden, Gloucester Harbor 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #128
Dixie Selden, (1868-1935)Gloucester HarborOil on canvas16×20Private collection Gloucester, on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Massachusetts’ North Shore. An important center of the fishing industry and a popular summer destination, Gloucester consists of an urban core on the north side of the harbor and the outlying neighborhoods. More…
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John Charles Allcot, The Pamir in Sydney Harbour 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #127
John Charles Allcot (1888-1973)The Pamir in Sydney Harbour Oil on Canvas Board 50x60cmPrivate collection 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…
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Ivan Aivazovsky, Rainbow 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #137
Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900) Rainbow, 1873 Oil, canvas Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, The above artwork is one of the most important by Ivan Aivazovsky – it overviews the major creative periods, and highlights the greatest achievements by the artist. The painting portrays survivors tossed in a tempestuous sea, as their ship sinks in the background after a…
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Jorn Fox 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #126
Jorn FoxUnknownOil on canvas48 x 24 inchesPrivate collection Jorn Fox was exposed to art at an early age by his father, an art instructor and abstract painter. Even through Jorn had studied in College he believes that his real education came from many hours he spent painting in his studio. There his canvases offered him unlimited…
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Laurits Bernhard Holst, Shipping off Gibraltar 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #125
Laurits Bernhard Holst, Danish 1848-1934 Shipping off Gibraltar, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 42.8x70cm Private collection Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered to the north by Spain. In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of…
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Hamilton Hayes, Pilot House Vineyard Haven 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #124
Hamilton Hayes, Georgetown, MA, United States Pilot House Vineyard Haven Oil on Canvas 36 H x 36 W x 1 in Private collection A Pilot House or Deckhouse is for a ship’s helmsman; containing the steering wheel, compass, and navigating equipment Vineyard Haven is the main port of entry to Martha’s Vineyard. The Steamship Authority wharf is located in…
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Jean-Pierre Kunkel, Pool No. 21 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #123
Jean-Pierre Kunkel, Germany Pool No. 21 Oil on Canvas 39.4 H x 39.4 W x 1.6 in Private collection Jean-Pierre Kunkel was born 1950 in France. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany). He worked for 40 years as a freelance advertising illustrator…
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Linda Weir, ST. IVES HARBOUR 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #118
Linda Weir SPRING LIGHT, ST. IVES HARBOUR Oil on canvas 23 1/5 × 38 in; 59 × 96.5 cm Private collection St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially…
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Tommaso de Simone, HMS Pallas coming into port, c. 1884 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #121
Tommaso de Simone, Italian 1805-1888 The sail and steamship HMS Pallas coming into port, c. 1884 Oil on canvas 26×39.5 Private collection HMS Pallas was a purpose-built wooden-hulled ironclad of the Royal Navy, designed as a private venture by Sir Edward Reed, and accepted by the Board of Admiralty because, as an economy measure, they wished…
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John H. ‘Jock’ Wilson, Seascape with Boats and Figures 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #122
John H. ‘Jock’ Wilson, (1774–1855) (attributed to) Seascape with Boats and Figures Oil on canvas 46 x 61.2 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne John H. “Jock” Wilson (1774 in Ayr – 1855 in Folkestone) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter, president of the Society of British Artists in 1827. Wilson was apprenticed at age…
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Julian TAYLOR, THE PONTOON 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #120
Julian TAYLOR, Born in Paris in 1954 LE PONTON (DOUARNENEZ), THE PONTOON (DOUARNENEZ) Oil on canvas 20 1/10 × 25 3/5 in; 51 × 65 cm Private collection Douarnenez is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The legendary city of Ys, of Breton folklore, is believed to lie beneath Douarnenez Bay. The port is…
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Jakub Schikaneder, Utonulá/Drowned, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #116
Jakub Schikaneder Utonulá/Drowned, c. 1893 Pastel height 455 mm, width 880 mm National Gallery in Prague Jakub Schikaneder (February 27, 1855 in Prague – November 15, 1924 in Prague) was a painter from Bohemia. Schikaneder came from the family of a German customs office clerk. Despite the family’s poor background, he was able to pursue his…
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Charles Ernest Cundall, REGATTA 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #119
Charles Ernest Cundall REGATTA Oil on canvas 24 2/5 × 40 1/5 in; 62 × 102 cm Private collection A regatta is a series of boat races. The term typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft. A regatta often includes social and promotional activities which surround the racing event, and except in the…
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J. M. W. Turner, The Fish Market at Hastings Beach 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #51c
M. W. Turner, (1775–1851) The Fish Market at Hastings Beach, c. 1810 Oil on canvas Height: 908.05 mm (35.75 in). Width: 1,206.5 mm (47.5 in) Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Hastings and the sea. In the 13th century Hastings had suffered over the years from the lack of a natural harbour. Attempts were made to…
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Edward William Cooke, Vessels on the Sands at Hastings 06 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #51b
Montague Dawson, RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) GLEAMING FOAM, CHARIOT OF FAME oil on canvas 61 by 91.5cm., 24 by 36in Private collection Chariot of Fame, a handsome clipper of 1639 tons built in America and flying the flag of the famous White Star Company. She had excellent accommodation for passengers, and before she was chartered by the…
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