Tag: artist
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Hayv Kahraman’s The Kawliya Dance, with Footnotes, #60
Sold for GBP 118,750 in 2018 Dance of El Kawliya is a dance of improvisation. The movements are full of power, earthiness, passion and a zest for life. Iraqi Gypsy dancers have kept their traditional dances alive by maintaining their simple lifestyle and by not allowing modern elements from ballet or from any other modern dance…
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1 Work , The Art of War, Philip Francis Stephanoff’s An armourer’s shop, with footnotes
Sold for GBP 1,008 in Jul 2022 Philip Francis Stephanoff, sometimes Francis Philip Stephanoff (1787/88–1860) was an English painter. He was born in Brompton Row, London. His father, Fileter N. Stephanoff, was a Russian who settled in England and worked painting ceilings and stage scenery, until he committed suicide around 1790; his mother Gertrude Stephanoff…
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01 Marine Painting, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen’s La Champagne, With Footnotes, #322
Sold for $8,500 USD in May 2022 The La Champagne was a French steel steamer commissioned in 1885 by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) in St. Nazaire alongside her sister ships La Bourgogne, La Bretagne, and La Gascogne. These four steamers would service CGT’s route between Le Havre and New York. La Champagne was built to accommodate…
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01 Work, Marine Art, Barry Hilton’s Sleeping Galleons, With Footnotes, #316
A traditionally serene example of Barry Hilton’s marine artworks, often depicting large Galleons of the 18th century in a similarly traditional style. The artwork conveys a tranquil tone with a mysterious tone that underlies the large scale oil on canvas. Barry’s dark and earthy tones and muted palette convey an eeriness that he seamlessly captures…
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01 Work The Artist’s Studio, Eduardo Sívori’s In the workshop, with Footnotes #90
Eduardo Sívori (October 13, 1847 – June 5, 1918) was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country’s first realist painter. Sívori ha arbored artistic leanings during childhood that, for family reasons, went unfulfilled. Asked by his father to join him on a business trip to Paris in 1874, Sívori took the opportunity to frequent Parisian…
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03 Marine Works, Aiden Lassell Ripley’s Scrubbing the Hull, With Footnotes, #321
An outdoorsman as well as a painter, Aiden Lassell Ripley was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1897. He trained briefly at the Fenway School of Illustration before joining the Army in 1917… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Marine Art, Walter Langley’s perils of fishing life in a Cornish Village, with Footnotes, #87
Walter Langley devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events at sea impacting on people at home… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Work, Henry Scott’s Night watch – Foochow, With Footnotes #323
Sold for US$14,025 in May 2022 Fuzhou, alternately Romanised as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong (lit. Eastern Fujian) linguistic and cultural area. Henry Scott F.R.S.A, 1911-2005, British, was a painter…
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01 Marine Work, Werner Drewes’ Maine Harbor, With Footnotes, #322
Sold for $7,500.00 in May 2019 Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional…
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01 Marine Work, George Savary Wasson’s Seascape with Ships, With Footnotes, #319
Sold for $800.00 in May 2019George Savary Wasson 1855-1932; was from a shipbuilding and seafaring family in Brooksville, Maine, George Wasson’s father was a prominent Transcendentalist minister whose church was that of Thoreau and Emerson. His grandfather and uncle built and owned ships. From 1873- 1875, when his father went to Germany to study religion,…
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01 Marine Work, William Edward Norton’s Marine View, With Footnotes, #318
Sold for $2,500.00 in May 2019William Edward Norton (1843-1916), American. Born in Boston to a New England family of shipbuilders, Norton’s interest in ships led him initially to a career at sea. After his sea service, he enrolled at both Harvard Medical School and the Lowell Institute, where his interest in art led him to study under…
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01 Painting, Marine Art, The Art of War, Yevgeny Kravtsov’s The Naval Battle of Athos, with Footnotes, #40
During the Russo-Turkish War, fought between 1806-1812, the Naval Battle of Athos occurs on June 19th 1807. A Russian fleet commanded by Admiral Dmitry Nikolayevich Senyavin, attacked and destroyed an Ottoman fleet of some 20 naval vessels under Kapudan Pasha (Ottoman Admiral) Seyit-Ali, between the Athos peninsula and the island of Lemnos, in Greece. As a…
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04 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Manal Deeb art, With Footnotes # 8
Manal Deeb is a Palestinian-American artist who was born in Ramallah, Palestine, and currently resides in the Washington DC area, USA… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Work, GEORGE SAVARY WASSON’s USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, With Footnotes, #320
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War. The significantly more powerful US Navy squadron, consisting of four…
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03 Marine Works, Frederick (Frank) William Scarbrough’s Pool of London, With Footnotes #317
The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse. Part of the Tideway of the Thames, the Pool was navigable by tall-masted vessels bringing coastal and later overseas goods — the wharves there were the original part of the Port of London… Please follow link for full post
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01 MARINE ART, AFÉLIX ZIEM’S L’ESCAUT À ANVERS, WITH FOOTNOTES #316
Sold for USD 6,300 in Apr 2022L’Escaut à Anvers is a 350-kilometre-long river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea. Félix Ziem (February 26, 1821 – November 10, 1911) was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School. He was born…
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01 Marine Art, ANGE-JOSEPH-ANTOINE ROUX’s ACTION BETWEEN FRIGATES, With Footnotes #315
Bayonnaise was a 24-gun corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1793. Bayonnaise was being built as a privateer when the Ministry of Marine requisitioned her in 1793 before she sailed. The Ministry assumed the construction contracts and purchased her in March 1794. Her hull was coppered in 1795 in Brest. She was officially renamed Brême…
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01 Painting, of The amorous game, Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet’s A Choice, With Footnotes #8
Estimated for 10,000 – 15,000 USD in February 2018 Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet (12 April 1840, Uzès – 11 April 1920, Paris) was a French painter and engraver; best known for his historical and costume genre scenes. His father was the owner of a café and a liqueur manufacturer who moved his family to Lyon in 1846. He…
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01 Painting, Marine Art, ANGE-JOSEPH-ANTOINE ROUX’s ACTION BETWEEN FRIGATES, With Footnotes #314
Sold for $1,200 in August 2017 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 1803. She was broken up in 1810. On 13 December 1798, Ambuscade captured a French merchantman, Faucon, with a cargo of sugar and coffee bound for…
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01 MARINE ART, PAUL SIGNAC’S ROSCOFF , WITH FOOTNOTES #313
Sold for 63,000 EUR in March 2022In the 19th century, Roscoff traded in cloth, salt and wood… even onions exported to England. Everything in its historic centre evokes the wealth of maritime trade: from the church hidden away in its garden to the opulent granite dwellings; from the boats sculpted out of stone to the turrets in…
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