Tag: MarineArt
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01 Marine Painting – Robert Russ’ Boats in the Mist, With Footnotes, #323
Sold for $1,700 USD in June 2022 Robert Russ (1847, Vienna-1922, Vienna) was best known for watercolors, architectural views, urban genre scenes and landscapes with figures painted in the pure, classical style. Russ was born into a family of artists – both his father, Franz Russ and brother, the portrait and genre painter Franz Seraph Russ.…
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02 Marine Paintings, Richard Hayley Lever’s Fishing Boats at St. Ives, With Footnotes, #324
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Painting, Joseph Milne’s Tayport, With Footnotes, #324
Sold for £956.25 in May 2022 Tayport, also known as Ferry-Port on Craig, is a town and burgh, and parish, in the county of Fife, Scotland, acting as a commuter town for Dundee. Tayport lies close to the north east tip of Fife. To the north it looks across the River Tay to Broughty Ferry and…
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01 Marine Painting, William Bradley Lamond’s Carting Seaweed, With Footnotes, #323
William Bradley Lamond RBA (1857–1924) was a Scottish painter, born at Newtyle, Angus. He had no formal art training and worked for the Caledonian Railway company for many years. He initially specialised in portraits and later worked on landscapes which have been described as “vigorous impressionistic scenes in oil – with a strong use of colour”.…
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01 Painting, Marine Art, The Art of War, Yevgeny Kravtsov’s The Naval Battle of Athos, with Footnotes, #40
During the Russo-Turkish War, fought between 1806-1812, the Naval Battle of Athos occurs on June 19th 1807. A Russian fleet commanded by Admiral Dmitry Nikolayevich Senyavin, attacked and destroyed an Ottoman fleet of some 20 naval vessels under Kapudan Pasha (Ottoman Admiral) Seyit-Ali, between the Athos peninsula and the island of Lemnos, in Greece. As a…
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01 Marine Art, ANGE-JOSEPH-ANTOINE ROUX’s ACTION BETWEEN FRIGATES, With Footnotes #315
Bayonnaise was a 24-gun corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1793. Bayonnaise was being built as a privateer when the Ministry of Marine requisitioned her in 1793 before she sailed. The Ministry assumed the construction contracts and purchased her in March 1794. Her hull was coppered in 1795 in Brest. She was officially renamed Brême…