Tag: Charles Edward Dixon
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01 Marine Painting – Charles Edward Dixon’s The lady, She’s a Liner, with Footnotes, #356
Charles Edward Dixon (8 December 1872 – 12 September 1934) was a British maritime painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work was highly successful and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Several of his paintings are held by the National Maritime Museum and he was a regular contributing artist to magazines and…
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02 CLASSIC MARINE PAINTINGS, THE LOWER POOL – WITH FOOTNOTES, #52
Charles Edward Dixon, 1872 – 1934 The Lower Pool, 1902 Watercolour 27 x 78 cm. Private collection 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…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #76
Charles Edward Dixon ‘An Elizabethan Trader’ Watercolour 19 x 13in. Private collection European exploration of other continents began well before the Elizabethan Era, the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) that is often considered to be a golden age in English history. Since Italian explorer Marco Polo (1254–1324) first ventured to Asia…
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03 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #64
Joe Selby, (American, 1893-1960) Steamship Mary Weems, c. 1926 Oil on board 18 x 25 in Private collection The Mary Weems was the first passenger steamer to enter the Port of Palm Beach, and a big deal was made of the event. She was greeted by the mayors of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Riviera Beach…
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04 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #60
Charles Edward Dixon, 1872 – 1934 OFF NEW BRIGHTON , 1899 Watercolour 37 x 55.5cm Private collection New Brighton is a seaside resort forming part of the town of Wallasey within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside. Up to the 19th century, the area had a reputation for smuggling and wrecking, and secret underground cellars and…