Tag: marine
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edwin Long’s The Assyrian Captive, with Footnotes. #178
Cheryl Cusick consistently won or achieved major placing, in every competition she has recently entered. Her list of awards is truly outstanding and a testament to both her popularity and talent. As far back as 1969, Cheryl has been involved in the Arts. Working as an art teacher Cheryl has taught all ages. She has been…
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02 Marine Paintings – Tristram Hillier’s Portuguese Trawlers, with Footnotes, #362
The Portuguese-class trawlers of World War II were naval trawlers, built in Portugal for the Royal Navy. These vessels were built in several Portuguese yards, and offered by Portugal to the Royal Navy. This aid to the British war effort solicited protests by Nazi Germany, since, officially, Portugal was a neutral country… Please follow link…
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01 Marine Painting – Jack Lorimer Gray’s Nova Scotian Schooner, with Footnotes, #361
Of all the wooden vessels that have sailed in Nova Scotia waters, perhaps the best-known and best-loved is the schooner. Regardless of size or various sail configurations and rigs, the Nova Scotian Schooner and its graceful silhouette are instantly recognizable, imbedded in the popular imagination as quintessential symbols of maritime life and the salt-water trade. The schooner’s…
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01 Marine Painting – Ernest Fiene ‘s Docked Boat, with Footnotes, #360
Ernest Fiene (November 2, 1894–August 10, 1965) was a 20th-century American graphic artist known primarily for his varied printed works, including lithographs and etchings. Fiene was born in Germany . He fled Germany in 1912 to avoid military service in what would become World War I. Traveling first to the Netherlands, he continued on to the United…
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01 Marine Painting – Ezelino Briante’s Without title, with Footnotes, #359
Ezelino Briante ( Naples , 1901 – Rome , 1971 ) was an Italian painter. He was born in Naples in 1901; son of musician artists; after some irregular studies he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples , but after some exams, he abandoned it. He traveled to Italy and abroad (France, Switzerland, Sweden,…
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01 Marine Painting, Abel Bertram’s Return of the fishermen, with footnotes, #358
Abel Bertram, born in Saint-Omer ( Pas-de-Calais ) on September 9 , 1871, and died in Paris on August 3 , 1954, is a French painter . Bertram learned the basics of his art in his hometown before settling in Lille where he became a student for three years at the school of fine arts. …
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01 MARINE PAINTING, MIROSLAVA ZAHARIEVA’S LIGHTHOUSE – WITH FOOTNOTES, #357
Miroslava Zaharieva is an academic and self-expression artist. She works in various styles: still life, landscape, portrait, figural and non-figural compositions using watercolours, oil, tempera and acrylic colours. Traditional techniques of painting and experimentation by mixing different techniques together. Collage works with various materials: paper, textile, leather and synthetics. Applied arts experience in hand drawing and…
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01 Marine Painting – Charles Edward Dixon’s The lady, She’s a Liner, with Footnotes, #356
Charles Edward Dixon (8 December 1872 – 12 September 1934) was a British maritime painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work was highly successful and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Several of his paintings are held by the National Maritime Museum and he was a regular contributing artist to magazines and…
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01 Marine Painting – Otto Kuster’s Sydney Summer, with Footnotes, #349
Sydney is home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. A quick Google search tells us that Sydney has over a hundred beaches scattered across the city, and that’s just the recorded number. There are heaps of hidden beaches that manage to stay under the radar. Unsurprisingly, if you were to visit…
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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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01 Marine Painting – Henry Scott’s The clipper ship Light Brigade, with Footnotes, #347
Ocean Telegraph was an American clipper ship. Built in 1854 for the run between New York and San Francisco, she was later sold and renamed Light Brigade in 1863. For the next 12 years she was used predominantly to transport cargo and immigrants between London and Australia and New Zealand. She was described as “a very sharp clipper…
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01 Marine Painting – Charles William Bush’s The Pearl River – Canton China, With Footnotes, #346
The Pearl River is an extensive river system in southern China. The river is so named because of the pearl-colored shells that lie at the bottom of the river in the section that flows through the city of Guangzhou. More on The Pearl River Born in Melbourne, Charles William Bush studied under Mcinnes (q. v.) and Wheeler at the National Gallery…
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01 MARINE PAINTING, NICOLA D’ASCENZO’S HARBOR SCENE – WITH FOOTNOTES, #81
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 Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; the Nipper Building in Camden, New Jersey; and the Folger Shakespeare Library and Washington…
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15 Classic Works of Marine and Seascape Paintings, with footnotes
Arthur J. Meadows (1843–1907) was born within a family of painters. His father James Meadows, Sr. instilled in him a technical appreciation for accurate coastal views of Europe, and young Arthur set out to see and paint as many as he could find. Traveling extensively throughout England, Holland and France, Meadows also took to the…
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01 Marine Painting – Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott’s Shipping, Sydney Harbour with City Skyline, with Footnotes, #345
Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects. Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott was born in Paignton near Brixham, Devon, UK, son of Alfred Elliott. Fred Elliott immigrated to Queensland in 1876 when his father was appointed teacher at…
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17 Engravings – Marine Art, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Sailing Vessels, with foot notes
Armed Three-Master on the Open Sea, accompanied by a Galley; large ship with guns at full sail in centre, seen from left; a large imperial pennant flaps from its mast; smaller galley to the left. More on this work Bruegel was born at a time of extensive change in Western Europe. Italy was at the…
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01 Marine Painting – John Charles Allcot’s American Clipper Ship ‘Wavertree’, with Footnotes, #344
Wavertree is a historic iron-hulled sailing ship built in 1885. Now the largest wrought iron sailing vessel afloat, it is located at the South Street Seaport in New York City.Wavertree was built in Southampton, England in 1885 and was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. She was built for the Liverpool…
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01 Marine Painting – Newell Conver’s Wyeth’s Morgan’s men are out for you, with Footnotes, #342
Sir Henry Morgan, (born 1635, Llanrhymney, Glamorgan—died August 25, 1688, probably Lawrencefield, Jamaica), Welsh buccaneer, most famous of the adventurers who plundered Spain’s Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century. Operating with the unofficial support of the English government, he undermined Spanish authority in the West Indies. More on Sir Henry Morgan Blackbeard, (born c. 1680, Bristol?, England—died…
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01 Marine Painting – Jean Dufy’s Port de Copenhague/ Port of Copenhagen, with Footnotes, #339
The Port of Copenhagen is the largest Danish seaport and one of the largest ports in the Baltic Sea basin. It extends from Svanemølle Beach in the north to Hvidovre in the south. The Port dates back to the Middle Ages. Originally owned by the Danish Royal Family. Christian IV moved Naval Shipyard from Gammelholm to…
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01 Marine Painting – Montague Dawson’s Q-Ship Mary B. Mitchell, with Footnotes, #338
Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. This gave Q-ships the chance to open fire and sink them. The use of Q-ships contributed to the abandonment of cruiser rules restricting attacks on unarmed…
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