Tag: marine
-
01 MARINE ART, DALE BYHRE’S ABERDEEN GREEN, WITH FOOTNOTES, #306
Ships that belonged to the Aberdeen ‘White Star’ line were painted in “Aberdeen Green” with white decks and bottom. They also had a gilded streak and scroll work. Many did their time in the Australian passenger trade. The ships painted in the traditional “Aberdeen Green” enjoyed great popularity all over the world. Dale Byhre, (…
-
01 Work, Marine Art, Georges Chavignaud’s Figures in a harbour, With Footnotes, #307
Georges Chavignaud, (1865-1944), was primarily a painter of landscapes in watercolor. He was born in Brittany, France in 1865 and studied in Paris. He came to Toronto, Ontario, in 1884, worked as art director for a publishing firm, and married a Canadian. From 1903-04 they travelled and painted, in Europe. George studied under leading artists…
-
01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305
Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In 1914 she was arrested by HMS Majestic and confiscated as a war prize by the Admiralty. She was renamed Bellhouse In 1915 she was sold…
-
01 Marine Art, by Kimber Lee Clark, With Footnotes, #303
Kimber Lee Clark is a self-taught artist and teacher. She owned the Saturday Cove Gallery in Saturday Cove, Maine for 25 years. She is well known for her artful abundance which plays through her paintings with color, wit, and whimsey. Whether it’s a rendition of island living, a lop sided lighthouse or bringing in the…
-
12 Works, Today, January 7th is Albert Bierstadt’s day, his story illustrated #007
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 — February 18, 1902) was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when he was one year old. In 1851, Bierstadt returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, painters who started…
-
01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #302. Waldo Peirce, Sirens of Searsport
Searsport is an incorporated town and deep water seaport located at the confluence of the Penobscot River estuary and the Penobscot Bay. Searsport is Maine’s second largest deep water port and is ideally located from the point of view of railroad, wood products and other development interests. More on SearsportWaldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an…
-
Edmond-Marie Petitjean, BOATS AT THE HARBOR. 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #301
Edmond Marie Petitjean, 1844 – 1925, French, was born at Neufchâteau in the Vosges. His father, a lawyer, did not allow him to study art until he had completed courses at the Faculty of Law at Nancy. From that moment, he abandoned the law and was able to devote himself entirely to his artistic career.…
-
Georges Jules Victor Clairin; A Sunday by the sea; 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #300
Georges Jules Victor Clairin (11 September 1843, Paris – Pouldu, Clohars-Carnoët 2 September 1919) was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah…
-
Attilio Pratella; Fishing boats on the Neapolitan coast; 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #299
Attilio Pratella (born 1856 in Lugo di Romagna, Italy; died 1949 in Naples, Italy) was an Italian painter. Pratella studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. He won a scholarship, so he went to Naples to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, where he spent the rest of his life.His favourite subjects…
-
Malcolm Cheape, IN HARBOUR; 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #297
Malcolm Cheape was born in 1964. He is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. Malcolm Cheape’s primary subject matter is the contemporary and historical world of commercial, industrial and naval shipping. The Scottish east and west coast gives Malcolm the ideal background from which to capture the grace…
-
Hippolyte Arnoux, Steamship Queen Elizabeth on the Suez Canal, c.1880, 01 Marine Photograph, With Footnotes, #295
I could not find any information on this vessel!Hippolyte Arnoux (active ca. 1860 – ca. 1890) was a French photographer and publisher. He was one of the first photographers to produce images of Egypt and documented the Suez Canal project with extensive photographs and a publication. Very little is known about this photographer, other than that he…
-
Hippolyte Arnoux, Port Said & Suez Canal, 01 Marine Photograph, With Footnotes, #296
Hippolyte Arnoux (active ca. 1860 – ca. 1890) was a French photographer and publisher. He was one of the first photographers to produce images of Egypt and documented the Suez Canal project with extensive photographs and a publication. Very little is known about this photographer, other than that he was active in the Nile Valley from about…
-
Walter Elmer Schofield, Cornish Harbour, 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #294
Cornish Harbours were once the centre of Cornwall’s pilchard fishing industry and the old cob and slate buildings bear testimony to a time when large shoals of pilchards were the livelihood of the whole village. More on Cornish HarboursWalter Elmer Schofield, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / 1869 – 1944), was born in Philadelphia in 1867. He attended Swathmore College and the…
-
Bateson Mason, Black Boat, 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #296
Frank Bateson Mason (1910 – 1977) was born in Thackley, Bradford, and studied under Henry Butler at Bradford College of Art, 1927-32 and then, via a scholarship, at the Royal College of Art (RCA), 1932-5. Mason’s work was singled out by William Rothenstein, a former principal of the RCA, when he paid a visit to Bradford,…
-
Frans Van Bueren, Harbour scene 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #293
Alphonse van Beurden, Antwerp 1878-1962. Art painter, who lived and worked in Antwerp. Son of sculptor Alphonse van Beurden. Studied at the Academy of Antwerp with a strong preference for landscapes and forest scenes in the style of F. Courtens, yet he also painted Schelde scenes, harbor scenes and figures in interiors. His work can be found…
-
Eugène Boudin, Rouville, the port at high tide 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #340
Trouville, in full Trouville-sur-Mer, is a seaside resort and port on the English Channel, northwestern France. It is situated where the Normandy Corniche drops to the right bank of the Touques estuary, opposite Deauville-les-Bains, with which community there have ferry and bridge links. Wooded hills above Trouville give way to a magnificent sandy beach and yield…
-
Eugène Boudin, Etretat at low tide 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #341
Étretat is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy in north-western France. It is a tourist and farming town. Étretat is best known for its chalk cliffs of a complex stratigraphy of Turonian and Coniacian chalks. Some of the cliffs are as high as 90 metres (300 ft). These cliffs and the associated resort beach…
-
A. van Beurden Jr; Fishing boats in the harbor of Oostende 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #292
Oostende, in earlier times, was a small village built on the east-end (oost-einde) of an island (originally called Testerep) between the North Sea and a beach lake. Although small, the village rose to the status of “town” around 1265 when the inhabitants were allowed to hold a market and to build a market hall. The major…
-
Charles Vermoskie; Brant Rock Massachusetts 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #291
Brant Rock is a village in the town of Marshfield, Massachusetts. It is a residential area that attracts tourists during the summer season because of its abundance of ocean beaches. Brant Rock Beach is popular for its esplanade along Ocean Street and the stone jetty that allows beachgoers to venture out over the water. Brant Rock…
-
Ken Howard, Harbour wall, Mousehole 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #290
Mousehole (pronounced “Mowzel”) is one of Cornwall’s most picturesque hamlets; a stunning collection of yellow-lichened houses, built from the local finely grained Lamorna granite, huddled together around the inner edge of the harbour – protected from the force of the sea coming across Mounts Bay by two sturdy breakwaters. More on Mousehole Kenneth Howard OBE RA (born…
Zaidan Gallery 