Tag: artist
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Ian Hansen, Tall Ship at Sea 01 Marine Painting – Ian Hansen, With Footnotes, #273
Ian Hansen, born in South Australia in 1948, spent his childhood years on the shores of Hervey Bay. It was here that his deep love of the sea and ships began. By the age of eight, he was actively painting with watercolours, moving to oils when he was eleven. His first oil work still hangs…
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, he Basque Port of Guetaria 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #272
Getaria is a coastal town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain. This coastal village is located on the Urola Coast, with Zarautz to the east and Zumaia to the west. Getaria is known for being Juan Sebastián Elcano’s hometown, a seaman well-known for being…
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Boats at Sea 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #271
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter born in Groningen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856, and when they inherited a fortune from her father, Mesdag retired at the age of 35 to pursue a career…
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Gilbert Galland; Boats at low tide 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #270
Gilbert Galland, born Paul Numa Gilbert Galland the 25 February 1870 in Lyon 5 th , and died on 14 August 1950 in Algeria) was a French orientalist . In Algiers, in 1889, Gilbert Galland was the pupil of Hippolyte Dubois, painter from Nantes, director of the Beaux-Arts of Algiers. He liked to paint boats, harbors and scenes…
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Henry Scott; The Wool Clipper ”Oberon” 01 Marine Painting – Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #269
Oberon proved herself one of the swiftest thoroughbreds in the so-called ‘Wool Fleet’. Her best-ever passage was Melbourne to London in 77 days when, after leaving Australian waters on 15th November 1874, she docked in London on 31st January 1875 having made – by a handsome margin – the fastest time of the season. Changing owners…
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Leslie A. Wilcox; The American Clipper ”Mischief” 01 Marine Painting – Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #268
Mischief was an extreme clipper ship built in 1853 by James M. Hood, at Somerset, MA. Dimensions 144’/146’×29’×16’6″ and tonnage 548 tons/560,69 tons; reported to have had the sharpest ends of any clipper at the time. Mischief was employed in the California/China trade. In command of Captain Martin Townsend. Mischief was damaged off Cape Horn and…
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Linda Weir; St Ives harbour 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #288
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, UK. The town lies on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular holiday resort, notably achieving…
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Carlos Nadal, (La plage/The Beach 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #267
Carlos Nadal (24 April 1917 – 6 June 1998) was a Spanish painter of the Fauvist school Nadal was born in Paris on 24 April 1917, but moved to Barcelona in 1921. His father, Santiago Nadal had a commercial design studio, where Carlos learnt to paint, and met modern artists including Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy and…
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Edward William Cooke, A riverside town 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #266
Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. (27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880) was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener. Cooke was born in Pentonville, London. He was raised in the company of artists. He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for…
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Nebojsa Ruzic Varda; Limani 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #286
“Limania” is a Greek word meaning harbors. Nebojsa Ruzic Varda; “I was born on March, 16. 1955. in Otocac – Lika. I finished schooling in Belgrade, as well as the Faculty of Fine Arts. My main interests are in: drawing, painting, caricature and photography. In the previous period I also dealt with: graphics, film and architecture.…
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Charles Murray Padday, The Harbour at Bougie, Algeria 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #265
Béjaïa is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria. According to Al-Bakri, the bay was first inhabited by Andalusians. Béjaïa stands on the site of the ancient city of Saldae, a minor port in Carthaginian and Roman times it was founded as a colony for old soldiers by emperor Augustus. According to…
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Eugène Galien-Laloue, Navire au port/ Ship at the port 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #264
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages,…
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Antoine Renault, Quincy Davis 01 Marine Painting – Dorothy Braund, With Footnotes, #263
Quincy Rose Davis (born May 18, 1995) is a surfer born in Montauk, New York. She started surfing when she was seven years old. With the shore as her backyard, Davis spent long summer days at the beach with her family who were always surfing. Davis started attending local surf events with older friends and would…
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Dorothy Braund, Bathers I 01 Marine Painting – Dorothy Braund, With Footnotes, #260
Dorothy Braund was born in Melbourne in 1926 and studied at the National Gallery School, and the George Bell School. Her travel studies in the 50s and 60s took her across Europe, Greece, Italy, Pakistan, Persia, and Turkey. Braund’s restrained figurative style has, at its core, the natural world, people and activity, observed with distinctive wit…
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Linda Weir, (Men Coming Home. St Ives Harbour 02 Marine Paintings – Linda Weir, With Footnotes, #260
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 dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a…
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Donald Hamilton Fraser; Study for Seascape 02 Marine Paintings – Donald Hamilton Fraser, With Footnotes, #259
Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats. There has always been a need for small tender boats for transporting goods and personnel to and from anchored sailing ships. Together with other smaller work craft such as fishing and light cargo, small inshore craft have always been in evidence. Charles II of England had a private…
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Arthur Hayward, Smeatons Pier, St Ives 02 Marine Paintings – Arthur Hayward, With Footnotes, #259
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 dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a…
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Charles Meere, Australia, ustralian beach pattern 02 Marine Paintings, With Footnotes, #258
Charles Meere was one of a group of Sydney artists whose work modernised classical artistic traditions as a means of depicting national life during the inter-war period. The epitome of his vision is Australian beach pattern, a tableau of beach goers whose athletic perfection takes on monumental, heroic proportions. Meere created a crowded and complex…
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William Lentz Weiss; Boston Harbor Scene 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #257
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,[2] Boston Harbor has been an important port…
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Edgar Yaeger, Trans Atlantic 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #256
Edgar Louis Yaeger (1904–1997) was an American modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan. Yaeger studied at the Detroit School of Fine and Applied Arts, by which he was awarded the Founder’s Society Purchase Prize. Subsequently, with the backing of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Traveling Scholarship, Yaeger embarked on a study tour of eight European countries, from France…
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