Tag: marine
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William Alexander Coulter, Ships at Dawn 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #289
William A. Coulter, born William Alexander Coulter (March 7, 1849 – March 13, 1936), was an American painter of marine subjects. Coulter was a native of Glenariff, County Antrim, in what is today Northern Ireland. He became an apprentice seaman at the age of 13, and after seven years at sea, came to settle in San…
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René Marie Dujardin, The Shipyard 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #287
René Marie Dujardin, (1913-2002). Born in Antwerp, René-Marie Dujardin knew early attraction to the sailing world. At 6 years he travelled on the SS Garonne, then he traveled the seas and rivers aboard freighters or tankers to Mexico, Norway, the Persian Gulf and Portugal. René-Marie Dujardin took a course of painting at the Institute of Fine Arts…
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John Allcot, Cutty Sark 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #285
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.…
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James Webb, Fresh Breeze off Texel 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #298
Billowing sea with sailing boats in the wind, in front of the Dutch North Sea island of Texel, Texel is a municipality and an island in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. James R Webb (1825–1895) was a…
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Isabelle Joubert, Deep breath 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #284
“Concentration before a jumping into deep blue sea” Isabelle Joubert Isabelle Joubert is a French painter, working and living in Nantes. The pictures from photos of fashion, advertising or models are the main and the original inspiration for her. After she finds in magazines the suitable photographic material, then she combines with her imagination the pieces to…
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André Brasilier, Cavalcade in the pink sky 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #283
Andre Brasilier, French (1929 – ) was born into an artistic family in 1929, Brasilier has spent more than half a century creating canvasses that are a blend of abstraction, expressionism, and something distinctly his own. His works often feature themes and motifs like horses, nature, music, and women. Brasilier’s art is known around the world,…
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Geoff Hunt; H.M.S. Trusty in English Harbour, Antigua 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #282
HMS Trusty (1782) was a fourth rate launched in 1782, used as a troopship from 1799 and a prison ship from 1809, and broken up in 1815. Trusty served in the navy’s Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801. The 50-gun ship Trusty takes on stores, while to the right a sloop is careened for…
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Cheryl Cusick; Neck & Neck 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #281
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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Carlos Nadal, La plage 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #280
Carlos Nadal (24 April 1917 – 6 June 1998) was a Spanish painter of the Fauvist school Nadal was born in Paris on 24 April 1917, but moved to Barcelona in 1921. His father, Santiago Nadal had a commercial design studio, where Carlos learnt to paint, and met modern artists including Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy and…
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Paul Augustin Aizpiri; THE BAY OF ST. TROPEZ 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #279
Saint-Tropez is a town on the French Riviera, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southeastern France. Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first town on this coast to be liberated during World War…
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Marcel Gromaire, Sailors carrying a boat, 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #277
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892 – 11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, however, one can say that Gromaire created an independent oeuvre far away from groups and movements Gromaire was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France. He studied classically at Douai, then continued…
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Frank Townsend Lent; Sailing Regatta 01 Marine Painting – Frank Townsend Lent , With Footnotes, #276
Frank Townsend Lent (1855–1919) was a residential architect, painter and author. Lent designed many suburban and summer cottage homes in Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, and Ontario around the turn of the century in the Victorian and Edwardian architectural period. Several of these homes are protected by their town’s historical society. Lent lived in Cranford, New Jersey.…
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The Victoria and Camperdown disaster 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #275
HMS Victoria was the lead ship in her class of two battleships of the Royal Navy. On 22 June 1893, she collided with HMS Camperdown near Tripoli, Lebanon, during manoeuvres and quickly sank, killing 358 crew members, including the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. One of the survivors was executive…
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Konstantin Filatov; Odessa Port 01 Marine Painting – Ian Hansen, With Footnotes, #274
The Port of Odessa or Odessa Sea Port, located near Odessa, is the largest Ukrainian seaport and one of the largest ports in the Black Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 40 million tonnes. The port has an immediate access to railways allowing quick transfer of cargo from sea routes to ground…
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Ian Hansen, Tall Ship at Sea 01 Marine Painting – Ian Hansen, With Footnotes, #273
Ian Hansen, born in South Australia in 1948, spent his childhood years on the shores of Hervey Bay. It was here that his deep love of the sea and ships began. By the age of eight, he was actively painting with watercolours, moving to oils when he was eleven. His first oil work still hangs…
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, he Basque Port of Guetaria 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #272
Getaria is a coastal town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain. This coastal village is located on the Urola Coast, with Zarautz to the east and Zumaia to the west. Getaria is known for being Juan Sebastián Elcano’s hometown, a seaman well-known for being…
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Boats at Sea 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #271
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter born in Groningen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856, and when they inherited a fortune from her father, Mesdag retired at the age of 35 to pursue a career…
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Gilbert Galland; Boats at low tide 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #270
Gilbert Galland, born Paul Numa Gilbert Galland the 25 February 1870 in Lyon 5 th , and died on 14 August 1950 in Algeria) was a French orientalist . In Algiers, in 1889, Gilbert Galland was the pupil of Hippolyte Dubois, painter from Nantes, director of the Beaux-Arts of Algiers. He liked to paint boats, harbors and scenes…
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Henry Scott; The Wool Clipper ”Oberon” 01 Marine Painting – Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #269
Oberon proved herself one of the swiftest thoroughbreds in the so-called ‘Wool Fleet’. Her best-ever passage was Melbourne to London in 77 days when, after leaving Australian waters on 15th November 1874, she docked in London on 31st January 1875 having made – by a handsome margin – the fastest time of the season. Changing owners…
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Leslie A. Wilcox; The American Clipper ”Mischief” 01 Marine Painting – Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #268
Mischief was an extreme clipper ship built in 1853 by James M. Hood, at Somerset, MA. Dimensions 144’/146’×29’×16’6″ and tonnage 548 tons/560,69 tons; reported to have had the sharpest ends of any clipper at the time. Mischief was employed in the California/China trade. In command of Captain Martin Townsend. Mischief was damaged off Cape Horn and…
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