Tag: marine
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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…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21E
Helene Schjerfbeck, 1862 – 1946, FINNISH ON THE JETTY Oil on canvas 38.5 by 35cm., 15¼ by 13¾in. Private Collection The present work was painted in 1879, the year Schjerfbeck completed her studies under Adolf von Becker in Helsinki, and exhibited for the first time with the Finnish Fine Arts Society. Although distinct from the…
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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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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21B
Egon Schiele Sailing Ship With Dinghy, c. 1908 Oil on cardboard Private Collection Egon Schiele (German: 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #21A
Maurice VAUMOUSSE (1876-1961) Le bassin à Honfleur Oil on canvas 37 x 55 cm Private Collection Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. Its inhabitants…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #99
Eugène Boudin, (1824–1898) Navires dans le Port à Honfleur/ Ships in the Port at Honfleur, c. 1856 Oil on wood panel Height: 20.3 cm (8 in). Width: 26.5 cm (10.4 in). Princeton University Art Museum Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5e
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Julius Hübner, 1806 – 1882 The Fair Melusine, c. 1844 Rudolf…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5d
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Gustave Wertheimer, (Austrian, 1847–1904) A nude woman on ship/ The enchanted sleeper…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5c
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Knut Ekvall, (1843–1912) The Fisherman and The Siren Oil on canvas…
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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5b
Ilya Repin, (1844–1930) Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, c. 1876 Oil on canvas canvas Height: 3,225 mm (126.97 in). Width: 2,300 mm (90.55 in). State Russian Museum Sadko is the principal character in a Russian medieval epic bylina. He was an adventurer, merchant, and musician from Novgorod. One day, as Sadko was playing his gusli/zither on the…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5a
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Arthur Hopkins, 1848-1930 A FANTASY OF THE DEEP, c. 1903 Watercolour…
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01 CLASSIC WORK OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #52D
Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, (c. 1576 – 29 December 1633) The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar, c. 1621 Oil on canvas h 136.8cm × w 187cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam On 25 April 1607, thirty Dutch ships took the Spanish fleet by surprise in the Bay of Gibraltar. The Spanish vessels, which…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #52C
Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom, The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies, c, 1599 Oil on canvas h 102.3cm × w 218.4cm The Dutch first reached the Indonesian archipelago in 1596. But it was the second attempt, in 1598, that was a commercial triumph. As stated in the inscription on the frame, ‘trade…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #52B
Henri Matisse, 1869 – 1954 , France Étretat, c.1926 Oil on canvas 55 x 66 cm Modern Museum, Stockholm Étretat is a commune in the Seine-Maritime in Normandy, north-western France. It is best known for its chalk cliffs, including three natural arches and a pointed formation called L’Aiguille or the Needle, which rises 70 metres (230 ft) above the sea.[1]…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #52A
William Joy, (Great Yarmouth 1803-1867 Chichester) A stiff onshore breeze with a dismasted merchantman foundering on the rocks, c. 1856.’ Watercolour with scratching out, on paper 11¼ x 15¼ in. (28.6 x 38.8 cm.) Private collection George William Joy (July 7, 1844 in Dublin, Ireland – October 28, 1925 in Purbrook, Hampshire) was an Irish painter in…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #98
William Lee-Hankey Honfleur oil on canvas 25 x 30 ½ in. (63.5 x 77.4 cm.) Private Collection Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie.…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS, GORDON HOPE GRANT – WITH FOOTNOTES, #97
Gordon Hope Grant, (American, 1875-1962) The Tea Clipper oil on canvas h. 24-1/2 w. 21-1/2 in. Private collection A Tea Clipper is a clipper built for tea trade, mainly from China The boom years of the clipper ship era began in 1843 as a result of a growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea…
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