Tag: Harbor
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01 Marine Painting – Robert Russ’ Boats in the Mist, With Footnotes, #323
Sold for $1,700 USD in June 2022 Robert Russ (1847, Vienna-1922, Vienna) was best known for watercolors, architectural views, urban genre scenes and landscapes with figures painted in the pure, classical style. Russ was born into a family of artists – both his father, Franz Russ and brother, the portrait and genre painter Franz Seraph Russ.…
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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, Joseph Milne’s Tayport, With Footnotes, #324
Sold for £956.25 in May 2022 Tayport, also known as Ferry-Port on Craig, is a town and burgh, and parish, in the county of Fife, Scotland, acting as a commuter town for Dundee. Tayport lies close to the north east tip of Fife. To the north it looks across the River Tay to Broughty Ferry and…
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01 Marine Painting, William Bradley Lamond’s Carting Seaweed, With Footnotes, #323
William Bradley Lamond RBA (1857–1924) was a Scottish painter, born at Newtyle, Angus. He had no formal art training and worked for the Caledonian Railway company for many years. He initially specialised in portraits and later worked on landscapes which have been described as “vigorous impressionistic scenes in oil – with a strong use of colour”.…
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01 Painting, Marine Art, The Art of War, Yevgeny Kravtsov’s The Naval Battle of Athos, with Footnotes, #40
During the Russo-Turkish War, fought between 1806-1812, the Naval Battle of Athos occurs on June 19th 1807. A Russian fleet commanded by Admiral Dmitry Nikolayevich Senyavin, attacked and destroyed an Ottoman fleet of some 20 naval vessels under Kapudan Pasha (Ottoman Admiral) Seyit-Ali, between the Athos peninsula and the island of Lemnos, in Greece. As a…
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01 Marine Art, ANGE-JOSEPH-ANTOINE ROUX’s ACTION BETWEEN FRIGATES, With Footnotes #315
Bayonnaise was a 24-gun corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1793. Bayonnaise was being built as a privateer when the Ministry of Marine requisitioned her in 1793 before she sailed. The Ministry assumed the construction contracts and purchased her in March 1794. Her hull was coppered in 1795 in Brest. She was officially renamed Brême…
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09 Paintings, Marine Art, On this date in 1620, English colonists aboard the Mayflower set sail for America, with Footnotes #310
Mayflower was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Art, The Battle of the USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack (Virginia), With Footnotes #310
Julian Oliver Davidson (December 27, 1853–April 30, 1894) was a 19th-century American marine artist and illustrator from Nyack, New York. He best known works of the famous naval battles of the American Civil War. Davidson’s works were exhibited at the Hudson River Museum, New-York Historical Society and the National Academy of Design in the 1870s and…
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01 Marine Painting, Ester Almqvist’s Gothenburg Harbour with Boats in the Ice, With Footnotes #384
The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg is the largest port in the Nordic countries. The port is situated on both sides of the estuary of Göta älv in Gothenburg. The north shore, Norra Älvstranden, is on Hisingen island and the south shore, Södra Älvstranden, is on the mainland. It is a combined river and coastal port. More…
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Paul Aizpiri, The Harbor 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #242
Paul Augustin Aizpiri (14 May 1919 – 22 January 2016) was a French artist. Aizpiris art is largely influenced by expressionist and Cubist elements. The motives have often been vases and clown portraits , but he also has taken motifs from the more typical French, among other Mediterranean cities. His artwork is often characterized by a distinctive use…
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William Lentz Weiss, Boston Harbor Scene 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #189
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, Boston Harbor has been an important port in…
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20th Century School, Passenger Ship Entering New York Harbor 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #150
Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for…
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William Edward Webb, View of a Harbor 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #109
William Edward Webb, English, 1862-1903 View of a Harbor Oil on canvas 22 x 38 inches (56 x 96.5 cm) Private collection William Edward Webb (British, 1862-1903). A permanent resident of Manchester, he widely frequented the coasts and ports of Great Britain, producing an impressive output of active scenes celebrating the challenges faced by those who…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21D
Egon Schiele – 1890 – 1918 Harbor of Trieste, c. 1907 Oil on cardboard Height: 25 cm (9.84 in.) Width: 18 cm (7:09 in.) Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum (United States) The Port of Trieste is a port in the Adriatic Sea in Trieste, Italy. In the period between the beginning of 1700 and 1850, Trieste was…
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