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14 Classic Works of Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, # 25
Franz Emil Krause, 1836-1900 Cutter in Harbour with sailing boat approaching, Oil on canvas 24 x 39.4 cm (9.5 x 15.5 ins) Private collection A cutter can be either a small- or medium-sized vessel whose occupants exercise official authority. Examples are harbor pilots’ cutters and cutters of the U.S. Coast Guard, or UK Border Force……
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13 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 37
Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Botticelli, and Studio, FLORENCE 1445 – 1510 THE MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST oil on panel, a tondo diameter: 34 1/4 in.; 87 cm. This tondo by Sandro Botticelli likely dates to the second half of the 1480s, when the artist had returned to Florence from Rome. The…