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01 Marine Painting – Charles William Bush’s The Pearl River – Canton China, With Footnotes, #346
The Pearl River is an extensive river system in southern China. The river is so named because of the pearl-colored shells that lie at the bottom of the river in the section that flows through the city of Guangzhou. More on The Pearl River Born in Melbourne, Charles William Bush studied under Mcinnes (q. v.) and Wheeler at the National Gallery…
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01 Marine Painting – Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott’s Shipping, Sydney Harbour with City Skyline, with Footnotes, #345
Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects. Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott was born in Paignton near Brixham, Devon, UK, son of Alfred Elliott. Fred Elliott immigrated to Queensland in 1876 when his father was appointed teacher at…
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17 Engravings – Marine Art, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Sailing Vessels, with foot notes
Armed Three-Master on the Open Sea, accompanied by a Galley; large ship with guns at full sail in centre, seen from left; a large imperial pennant flaps from its mast; smaller galley to the left. More on this work Bruegel was born at a time of extensive change in Western Europe. Italy was at the…
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01 Marine Painting – John Charles Allcot’s American Clipper Ship ‘Wavertree’, with Footnotes, #344
Wavertree is a historic iron-hulled sailing ship built in 1885. Now the largest wrought iron sailing vessel afloat, it is located at the South Street Seaport in New York City.Wavertree was built in Southampton, England in 1885 and was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. She was built for the Liverpool…
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01 Marine Painting – Newell Conver’s Wyeth’s Morgan’s men are out for you, with Footnotes, #342
Sir Henry Morgan, (born 1635, Llanrhymney, Glamorgan—died August 25, 1688, probably Lawrencefield, Jamaica), Welsh buccaneer, most famous of the adventurers who plundered Spain’s Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century. Operating with the unofficial support of the English government, he undermined Spanish authority in the West Indies. More on Sir Henry Morgan Blackbeard, (born c. 1680, Bristol?, England—died…
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01 Marine Painting – Jean Dufy’s Port de Copenhague/ Port of Copenhagen, with Footnotes, #339
The Port of Copenhagen is the largest Danish seaport and one of the largest ports in the Baltic Sea basin. It extends from Svanemølle Beach in the north to Hvidovre in the south. The Port dates back to the Middle Ages. Originally owned by the Danish Royal Family. Christian IV moved Naval Shipyard from Gammelholm to…
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01 Marine Painting – Montague Dawson’s Q-Ship Mary B. Mitchell, with Footnotes, #338
Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. This gave Q-ships the chance to open fire and sink them. The use of Q-ships contributed to the abandonment of cruiser rules restricting attacks on unarmed…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings, János Miklós Vaszary’s BEACH IN ITALY – With Footnotes, #220
János Miklós Vaszary (30 November 1867 – 19 April 1939) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.His art studies began at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In 1887, he went to Munich. After seeing an exhibition of paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, he moved to Paris in 1899 and enrolled at the Académie Julian. Although he…
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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings, Edmond Marie Petitjean’s Ships at the Port of Antwerp – With Footnotes, #219
Antwerp’s potential as a seaport was recognized by Napoleon Bonaparte and he ordered the construction of Antwerp’s first lock and dock in 1811. Called the Bonaparte Dock, it was joined by a second dock – called the Willem Dock after the Dutch King – in 1813. When the Belgian Revolution broke out in 1830, there…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, John Singer Sargent’s Nancy Witcher Langhorne, Viscountess Astor, with Footnotes. #140
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (22 July 1803, in Paris – 25 April 1886, in Montévrain) was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style. He was born to Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a well known painter who enjoyed the patronage of the Imperial Family. Originally, he wanted to be a sailor, but his father insisted that…
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01 Marine Painting – Kasia Derwinska’s Neighborhood, with Footnotes, #378
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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01 Marine Photograph, Captain F. L. Grundy’s H.M.S. Aboukir at Port Royal, Jamaica, with Footnotes, #336
HMS Aboukir was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy launched in 1848. The navy refitted her with screw propulsion in 1858 and sold her in 1877. Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Aboukir, after Abu Qir Bay, the site of the Battle of the Nile. This…
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01 Marine Painting – Jules Achille Noel’s Before the gale at Le Tréport, with Footnotes, #335
Le Tréport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-eastern France. A small fishing port and light industrial town situated in the Pays de Caux, some 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Dieppe. The mouth of the Bresle river meets the English Channel here, in between the high chalk cliffs and…
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01 Marine Painting – Charles Maarten Kemper’s Waalhaven, With Footnotes, #334
The Waalhaven is one of the dug harbors on the left bank of the Maas in Rotterdam. With its area of 310 ha. it is the largest dug harbor basin in the world. The Waalhaven flows into the Nieuwe Maas and is therefore directly connected to the sea via the Scheur and the Nieuwe Waterweg. More on…
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01 Marine Painting – Edwin Henry Eugene Fletcher’s Leaving Port, wth Footnotes, #333
Edward Henry Fletcher was born in Hammersmith on the 23rd July 1857. He was the son of a Bengal river pilot, and having spent his early years in India, the family returned to England while he was still a boy. He was educated at the Christ’s Hospital and later at the Chelsea School of Art.…
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01 Marine Painting, Edwin Henry Eugene Fletcher’s On the Thames at Blackwall, with Footnotes, #332
Blackwall is a locale in East London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and also forms part of the Port of London and the conservation area of Coldharbour. Blackwall’s name presumably derives from the colour of the river wall, built in the Middle Ages with its stairs. It was known as Blackwall by at…
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01 Marine Photograph – Kasia Derwinska’s He promised to come back, with Footnotes, #331
Melancholy: The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sea 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…
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03 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – Ports of Call, with Footnotes
Palazzo donn’anna, in the background, is a historical residence palace in naples, italy Rubens Santoro (October 26, 1859 in Mongrassano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria — 1942 in Naples) was an Italian painter. He moved to Naples at 10 years of age, to study literature, but his inclination was painting. He only briefly enrolled at the Neapolitan Academy,…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Sir Frank Brangwyn’s THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE, with Footnotes
The Battle of Flores was a naval engagement of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 fought off the Island of Flores between an English fleet of 22 ships under Lord Thomas Howard and a Spanish fleet of 53 ships under Alonso de Bazán. Sent to the Azores to capture the annual Spanish treasure convoy, when a stronger…
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11 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #21
SS La Bretagne was an ocean liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) 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…
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