Tag: marine
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #82
Lionel Percy Smythe, RA, RWS, RI, ROI (British, 1839-1918) The mussel gatherer, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 92.1 x 64.2cm (36 1/4 x 25 1/4in). Private collection The best moment to do gather mussels is during a low spring tide. When the water goes as low as a meter under, the surf rocks will be exposed…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #81
Nicola D’Ascenzo (Pennsylvania / Italy, 1871-1954) Harbor scene, c. 1904 Watercolor 17 x 13 in. Private collection Nicola D’Ascenzo (September 25, 1871, Torricella Peligna, Italy – April 13, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an Italian-born American stained glass designer, painter and instructor. He is best known for creating stained glass windows for the Washington Memorial Chapel in…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #78
Ivana Vostrakova Czech Republic Little dancer and the sea Photography: Digital, Manipulated and Color on Canvas. 29.5 H x 39.4 W x 0.8 in Private collection Ivana Vostrakova: Minimalist strong composition and clear lines are typical for Ivana Vostrakova’s work. They apply mainly in the minimalist graphical shortcuts. They are, in some cases, moreover enriched by…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #77
Andres Vivo, Uruguay Ketch and Yawls Oil on Paper 8.5 H x 11.8 W x 0 in Private collection A yawl is a two-masted sailing craft whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast). Compared to a similar sized ketch, a yawl’s mizzen mast is set further aft and its mizzen sail is smaller.…
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07 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The beautiful and damned women of history
Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856 MARY STUART SWEARING REVENGE Oil on canvas 25 1/2 by 21 1/4 in Private Collection While Chassériau’s precise inspiration for Mary Stuart Swearing Revenge is unknown, it is possible that the work was based on Friedrich Schiller’s play of 1800 or Donizetti’s opera, Maria Stuarda, written in 1845. It has been suggested…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #73
Franz Hünten Hamburg, 1822 – Hamburg 1887 The W. Schernikau off Heligoland, c. 1860 Oil/canvas 50,5 x 71,5 cm Private collection Heligoland is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were at one time Danish and later British possessions. The islands are located in the Heligoland Bight are in the southeastern corner of…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #72
Cezary Kielar, Netherlands Girl at the seaside Oil on Canvas 19.7 H x 23.6 W x 0.8 in Private collection Cezary Kielar, Netherlands: “I take pictures, draw and paint … At the moment I paint portraits, but there is a kind of ambiguity in it. The appearance of the figures has often symbolic value, so there are…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #70
JOY LAVILLE Figures on sand bar and fish, c. 1984 Gouache on paper 43 x 64 cm / 16 x 25 inches. Private Collection Joy Laville (born September 8, 1923) is an English/Mexican artist whose art career began and mostly developed in Mexico when she came to the country to take art classes in San Miguel…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #69
Backhuysen, Ludolf, Dutch, 1630 – 1708 Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast, c. 1667 Oil on canvas 114.3 x 167.3 cm (45 x 65 7/8 in.) National Gallery of Art The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #67
Kasia Derwinska, Spain He promised to come back Photography Size: 15.7 H x 15.7 W x 0.4 in Private collection Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences,…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #66
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER Imaan Hammam, Desert Calm, Tierra Atacama, Vogue, 2015 Archival Pigment Print 36 × 44 in, 91.4 × 111.8 cm Private collection Imaan Hammam (born 5 October 1996) is a Dutch model of Egyptian and Moroccan descent. She has appeared on the cover of American Vogue thrice. Imaan Hammam was born in Amsterdam to an…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #65
Edward (Edwin) Henry Eugene Fletcher. (1857-1945) Dock scene at Rochester, Kent, early 20th century Oil painting on canvas 24″ high, 36″ Private collection Dock scene at Rochester, Kent with ships and a castle in the background. Rochester is a town and historic city in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, England. It is at the…
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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, #56
J. M. W. Turner, (1775–1851) The Fish Market at Hastings Beach, c. 1810 Oil on canvas Height: 908.05 mm (35.75 in). Width: 1,206.5 mm (47.5 in). Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Hastings is a town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England. It gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took…
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11 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #33
Montague Dawson, (1890–1973) The British Clipper Ship Thermopylae Watercolor and gouache on paper 16 1/4 x 26 in. Private Collection Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. In 1872, Thermopylae raced the clipper Cutty Sark from Shanghai back to London.…
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13 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #31
FOLLOWER OF ANGE-JOSEPH-ANTOINE ROUX, (french 1765-1835) “ACTION BETWEEN H.M FRIGATE ”AMBUSCADE” AND THE FRENCH FRIGATE ”BAYONNAISE”” Oil on canvas 23 3/8 x 30 in. (59.4 x 76.2cm) Private Collection HMS Ambuscade was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in 1773. The French captured her in 1798 but the British recaptured her in…
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15 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #29
Henri Le Sidaner, 1862 – 1939 BATEAUX DANS LA LAGUNE/ BOATS IN THE LAGOON, ETAPLES, c. 1885 Oil on wood panel 6 1/4 by 10 1/2 in., 15.9 by 26.7 cm Painted in 1885. Private Collection Étaples or Étaples-sur-Mer is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is a fishing and leisure port on…
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14 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #23
Frederick Tudgay, John Tudgay Battle of Heligoland, c. 1864 Oil on canvas 35-1/2 x 58-3/4 in. (90.1 x 149.2 cm.) Private Collection The Battle of Heligoland (or Helgoland) was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second War of Schleswig between the navy of Denmark and the navy of Austria. The latter’s ally, Prussia, sent…
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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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