Tag: Beach
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Adolf von Meckel, FISHERMEN ON LAKE MARIOUT, EGYPT – 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #118
Adolf von Meckel, 1856 – 1893, GERMAN FISHERMEN ON LAKE MARIOUT, EGYPT, c. 1889 Oil on canvas 200 by 270cm., 78¾ by 106in. Private collection Lake Mariout is a brackish lake in northern Egypt. The lake area covered 200 km² and had a navigable canal at the beginning of the 20th century, but at the…
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Willy Tiedjen, Hamburg Harbor, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #40a
Willy Tiedjen (1881 Hamburg – 1950 Munich) Hamburg Harbor with the Kaiserspeicher ( Kaiser Memorial) and St. Michael’s Church Oil on canvas 48.5 x 70.5 Private collection The Port of Hamburg is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. The port is almost as old as…
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Otto von Thoren, Bathing by the sea 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #117
Otto von Thoren (Austrian, 1828-1889) Bathing by the sea, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 25-3/4 x 31-1/4 inches (65.4 x 79.4 cm) Private collection Otto von Thoren (21 July 1828 Vienna, 15 July 1889 in Paris) is an Austrian animal painter. He was the son of son of Francis Casimir Thoron and Constance Marie-Françoise Lochmann Otto von…
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Montague Dawson, The moonlit way – The Invercargill 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #114
Montague Dawson, (British, 1895-1973) The moonlit way – The Invercargill, c. 1938 Oil on canvas 28 x 42 inches (71.1 x 106.7 cm) Private collection THE INVERCARGILL. During the year 1874 Robert Duncan built six ships—the Invercargill, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Nelson, and Dunedin—to the order of Patrick Henderson, for the New Zealand trade. They were all…
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Dutch School, A Dutch Fleet in a Storm 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #110
Dutch School, 17th Century A Dutch Fleet in a Storm Oil on canvas 29 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches (75.5 x 65.5 cm) Private collection The Dutch School were painters in the Netherlands from the early Renaissance to the Baroque. It includes Early Netherlandish (1400–1500) and Dutch Renaissance (1500–1584) artists active in the northern Low Countries and,…
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Hans Bohrdt, Wilhelm Gustloff in the Port of Hamburg, c. 1939 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #104
Hans Bohrdt, (11 February 1857 – 19 December 1945) Wilhelm Gustloff in the Port of Hamburg, c. 1939 Oil on canvas 80 x 120 cm Private collection MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German cruise ship transformed into a military transport ship. She was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea,…
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Amos Sewell, Peg-legged Captain 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #103
Amos Sewell (American, 1901-1983) Peg-legged Captain Oil on board 32 x 24 in. (sight) Amos F. Sewell, (1901-1983), was born in Oakland, California. By 1921 he had a job as a bank clerk and he studied night classes at the California School of Fine Arts. In his spare time he drew unsolicited interior story illustrations…
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Claude Monet, The Museum at Le Havre, 1873 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #108
Claude Monet The Museum at Le Havre, 1873 Oil on canvas 75 x 100 cm The National Gallery, London, UK This is an important work which dates from a key period in the artist’s career. In the early 1870s Monet lived mainly at Argenteuil but made frequent trips to his home town, Le Havre, on…
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NORMAN LINDSAY 1879-1969 – Boarded, c. 1954 01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #126
NORMAN LINDSAY 1879-1969 Boarded, c. 1954 Watercolour on paper 51.5 x 40 cm Private collection Naval boarding is to come up against, or alongside, an enemy ship to attack by placing combatants aboard the enemy ship. The goal of boarding is to capture, or destroy, the enemy vessel. Larger ships carried specially trained and equipped sailors,…
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Abraham de Verwer, (1600 – 1650) Sailing Ships in a Bay 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #128
Abraham de Verwer, (1600 – 1650) Sailing Ships in a Bay Oil on canvas 33 x 42 cm Private collection Abraham de Verwer (1585, Haarlem – 1650, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter of cityscapes, (river) landscapes and seascapes. He was also called Abraham de Verweer van Burghstrate. He travelled in northern France and when he…
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Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, Coastal Landscape with a Warship at Anchor 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #127
Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen Coastal Landscape with a Warship at Anchor Oil on panel 49.5 x 84.5 cm Private collection Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen (c. 1576 – 29 December 1633) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He was born and died in Haarlem. He was the son of a Haarlem captain He specialized in paintings depicting ships…
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Auton Nowak, 1865 – 1932, Gdańsk, A Polish Shipyard 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #125
Auton Nowak, 1865 – 1932 Gdańsk, A Polish Shipyard Oil On Canvas 47″H x 37″W Private collection Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland’s principal seaport and the centre of the country’s fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic…
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George Albert Thompson, Fishing boats 01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #21c
George Albert Thompson, (1868 – 1938) Fishing boats Oil on canvas 19-1/2 x 23-1/2 in. (49.5 x 59.7 cm.) Private Collection George Albert Thompson, (1868 – 1938), best known for Connecticut landscapes and coastal scenes including atmospheric nocturnes, George Thompson frequently painted around Bridgeport, Mystic, and New Haven. He was an art teacher at the Yale School of Fine…
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Édouard Adam (French, 1847-1929), The ships La Pacicique and Tropique passing at sea 01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #21c
Édouard Adam (French, 1847-1929) The ships La Pacicique and Tropique passing at sea Oil on canvas 24 x 36 in. (60.9 x 91.4 cm.) Private Collection Édouard Adam (French, 1847-1929) was the name of both a father and son who painted ship’s portraits in the port of Le Havre around the same time. There is much confusion…
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Henry Malfroy, Martigues 01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #21b
Henry Malfroy ( b. January 15, 1895, in Martinique; died in 1944) Martigues Oil on canvas 60 x 92 cm Private Collection Martigues is a commune northwest of Marseille. It is part of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region on the eastern end of the Canal de Caronte. Nicknamed the “Provençale Venice”, Martigues is a…
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Joaquín Sorolla, 1863 – 1923, SPANISH, RETURN WITH THE CATCH, c. 1908 17 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #21a
Joaquín Sorolla, 1863 – 1923, SPANISH RETURN WITH THE CATCH, c. 1908 Oil on canvas 25.5 by 37.5cm., 10 by 14½in. Private Collection Painted on El Cabañal beach, Valencia, in 1908, the present work takes up a theme that preoccupied Sorolla like no other: returning fishermen attended by their wives and daughters carrying baskets in which to carry…
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Montague Dawson, British, 1895-1973 Night Suspect (A British Coast Guard Cutter in Pursuit) 01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #125
Montague Dawson, British, 1895-1973 Night Suspect (A British Coast Guard Cutter in Pursuit) Signed Montague Dawson(ll) Oil on canvas 25 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm) Private collection The painting depicts the dramatic chase on a moonlit night by the British Coast Guard, firing a canon at suspected smugglers in the English Channel. More on this…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21G
Joaquín Sorolla, 1863 – 1923, SPANISH CHILDREN ON THE SHORE, ,c. 1905 Oil on canvas 33.5 by 63cm., 13 by 24¾in. Private Collection This scene combines one of Sorolla’s most jewel-like renditions of the sea and cliffs of Cabo de San Antonio, Jávea, with a portrayal of a personal family moment. Depicting, from left to right, his three…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21F
Ernest Buttura CÔTE NORMANDE, MER DÉCHAÎNÉE Oil on canvas 200 x 100 cm Private Collection The Normandy coastline stretches for nearly 640km via a series of smaller “côtes” with incredibly evocative names: Côte d’Albâtre (Alabaster Coast), Côte Fleurie (Flower Coast), Côte de Nacre (Mother of Pearl Coast), and so on. Its cliffs form an imposing wall of…