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5 Works – Marine art, J. M. W. Turner
Dutch boats are shown on course for collision in stormy weather. Dark clouds contribute to the sense of danger. The painting was commissioned by the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater as a companion piece to a 17th-century Dutch seascape in his possession. More on this painting Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (1775–19 December 1851) was an…
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01 Marine Art, Francisco Hernandez Monjo’s Navy warship, with Footnotes, #310
Francisco Hernandez Monjo, Menorca 1862 – 1937, was born into a family of artists, silversmiths, and goldsmiths. At age 23 he began drawing lessons and his works then were landscapes of Mahon harbor and boats. By 1890 he moved to Barcelona where he completed his artistic training with Eliseo Meifrén at the School of Fine Arts in…
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30 Works, February 24th. is artist Winslow Homer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #055
On the Maine coast, a “nor’easter” is a storm of exceptional violence and duration. When Homer first showed this canvas in 1895, it included two men in foul-weather gear crouching on the rocks below a smaller column of spray. Even though the painting was well received and purchased by a leading collector of American art — George…
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05 Marine Paintings – Edward William Cooke, Joseph Edward Southall, Henry Bernahl, J. M. W. Turner and Edward William Cooke. With Footnotes, #51
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 build a stone harbour during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the foundations were destroyed by the sea in terrible storms. The fishing boats were stored on and launched from…
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01 Painting, Marine Art, Anton Otto Fischer’s Merchant Vessel, With Footnotes, #309
Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 – March 26, 1962) was born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years on a variety of sailing ships. In New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship.” He later served as a…
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01 Work, Marine Art, Anton Otto Fischer’s CLIPPER SHIP, With Footnotes, #309
Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 — March 26, 1962) was born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years on a variety of sailing ships. In New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship.” He later served as a hand…
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01 MARINE ART, DALE BYHRE’S ABERDEEN GREEN, WITH FOOTNOTES, #306
Ships that belonged to the Aberdeen ‘White Star’ line were painted in “Aberdeen Green” with white decks and bottom. They also had a gilded streak and scroll work. Many did their time in the Australian passenger trade. The ships painted in the traditional “Aberdeen Green” enjoyed great popularity all over the world. Dale Byhre, (…
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01 Work, Marine Art, Georges Chavignaud’s Figures in a harbour, With Footnotes, #307
Georges Chavignaud, (1865-1944), was primarily a painter of landscapes in watercolor. He was born in Brittany, France in 1865 and studied in Paris. He came to Toronto, Ontario, in 1884, worked as art director for a publishing firm, and married a Canadian. From 1903-04 they travelled and painted, in Europe. George studied under leading artists…
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01 Marine Art, by Petrus Paulus Schiedges the Elder, With Footnotes, #304
Petrus Paulus Schiedges the Elder (Dutch, 1812–1876). After his study at the Haagsche Teekenacademie, Petrus Paulus Schiedges developed into a painter of sea and river views. In the forties of the 19th century, he received advice from marine painter Louis Meijer. Schiedges was a master at displaying the different ship types that sailed on the Dutch…
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01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305
Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In 1914 she was arrested by HMS Majestic and confiscated as a war prize by the Admiralty. She was renamed Bellhouse In 1915 she was sold…
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01 Marine Art, by Kimber Lee Clark, With Footnotes, #303
Kimber Lee Clark is a self-taught artist and teacher. She owned the Saturday Cove Gallery in Saturday Cove, Maine for 25 years. She is well known for her artful abundance which plays through her paintings with color, wit, and whimsey. Whether it’s a rendition of island living, a lop sided lighthouse or bringing in the…
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12 Works, Today, January 7th is Albert Bierstadt’s day, his story illustrated #007
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 — February 18, 1902) was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when he was one year old. In 1851, Bierstadt returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, painters who started…
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01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #302. Waldo Peirce, Sirens of Searsport
Searsport is an incorporated town and deep water seaport located at the confluence of the Penobscot River estuary and the Penobscot Bay. Searsport is Maine’s second largest deep water port and is ideally located from the point of view of railroad, wood products and other development interests. More on SearsportWaldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an…
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Edmond-Marie Petitjean, BOATS AT THE HARBOR. 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #301
Edmond Marie Petitjean, 1844 – 1925, French, was born at Neufchâteau in the Vosges. His father, a lawyer, did not allow him to study art until he had completed courses at the Faculty of Law at Nancy. From that moment, he abandoned the law and was able to devote himself entirely to his artistic career.…
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Georges Jules Victor Clairin; A Sunday by the sea; 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #300
Georges Jules Victor Clairin (11 September 1843, Paris – Pouldu, Clohars-Carnoët 2 September 1919) was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah…
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Attilio Pratella; Fishing boats on the Neapolitan coast; 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #299
Attilio Pratella (born 1856 in Lugo di Romagna, Italy; died 1949 in Naples, Italy) was an Italian painter. Pratella studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. He won a scholarship, so he went to Naples to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, where he spent the rest of his life.His favourite subjects…
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Malcolm Cheape, IN HARBOUR; 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #297
Malcolm Cheape was born in 1964. He is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. Malcolm Cheape’s primary subject matter is the contemporary and historical world of commercial, industrial and naval shipping. The Scottish east and west coast gives Malcolm the ideal background from which to capture the grace…
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Hippolyte Arnoux, Steamship Queen Elizabeth on the Suez Canal, c.1880, 01 Marine Photograph, With Footnotes, #295
I could not find any information on this vessel!Hippolyte Arnoux (active ca. 1860 – ca. 1890) was a French photographer and publisher. He was one of the first photographers to produce images of Egypt and documented the Suez Canal project with extensive photographs and a publication. Very little is known about this photographer, other than that he…
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Hippolyte Arnoux, Port Said & Suez Canal, 01 Marine Photograph, With Footnotes, #296
Hippolyte Arnoux (active ca. 1860 – ca. 1890) was a French photographer and publisher. He was one of the first photographers to produce images of Egypt and documented the Suez Canal project with extensive photographs and a publication. Very little is known about this photographer, other than that he was active in the Nile Valley from about…
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Walter Elmer Schofield, Cornish Harbour, 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #294
Cornish Harbours were once the centre of Cornwall’s pilchard fishing industry and the old cob and slate buildings bear testimony to a time when large shoals of pilchards were the livelihood of the whole village. More on Cornish HarboursWalter Elmer Schofield, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / 1869 – 1944), was born in Philadelphia in 1867. He attended Swathmore College and the…
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