Tag: fishing
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02 Marine Paintings, Richard Hayley Lever’s Fishing Boats at St. Ives, With Footnotes, #324
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Painting, Maurice MacGonigal’s CURRACHS FISHING – With Footnotes, #348
A currach is a type of Irish boat with a wooden frame, over which animal skins or hides were once stretched, though now canvas is more usual. It is sometimes anglicised as “curragh”. The currach has traditionally been both a sea boat and a vessel for inland waters. The River currach was especially well known for…
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Fishing Boats caught in a Storm 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #146
Private collectionsJoseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one…
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George Willem Opdenhoff, FISHING BOATS ON SCHEVENINGEN BEACH 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #129
George Willem Opdenhoff, 1807-1873, DUTCH FISHING BOATS ON SCHEVENINGEN BEACH Oil on canvas 48 by 68.5cm., 19 by 27in. Private collection Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands. The earliest reference to the name Sceveninghe goes back to around 1280. The village was continuously hit by storms. After this last storm, the villagers decided to…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #84
Samuel Owen, (1769 – 8 December 1857) Unloading the catch Watercolour 14 x 19cm; 5½ x 7½in Private collection Samuel Owen (1769 – 8 December 1857) was an English marine painter and illustrator. Nothing is recorded of him before 1791, when he exhibited “A Sea View” at the Royal Academy. This was followed in 1797,…
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