Tag: Sailing

The Port of Hamburg, is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. It’s Germany’s largest port and is named the country’s “Gateway to the World”. Hamburg is the second-busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam) and 15th-largest worldwide. The harbour is location is naturally advantaged…

01 Marine Art, Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée’s Waiting for the boats, with Footnotes, #311

Mar 19, 2022

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Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée (7 February 1837 The Hague – 14 December 1904 The Hague) was an artist who belonged to the Hague School. Sadée started painting at the age of 20. He studied in The Hague both at the Academy and in the studio of J E J van den Berg (1802–1861). In 1866 with his…

01 Marine Art, Francisco Hernandez Monjo’s Navy warship, with Footnotes, #310

Mar 7, 2022

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Francisco Hernandez Monjo, Menorca 1862 – 1937, was born into a family of artists, silversmiths, and goldsmiths. At age 23 he began drawing lessons and his works then were landscapes of Mahon harbor and boats. By 1890 he moved to Barcelona where he completed his artistic training with Eliseo Meifrén at the School of Fine Arts in…

01 Painting, Marine Art, Anton Otto Fischer’s Merchant Vessel, With Footnotes, #309

Feb 22, 2022

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Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 – March 26, 1962) was born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years on a variety of sailing ships. In New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship.” He later served as a…

01 Work, Marine Art, Anton Otto Fischer’s CLIPPER SHIP, With Footnotes, #309

Feb 11, 2022

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Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 — March 26, 1962) was born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years on a variety of sailing ships. In New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship.” He later served as a hand…

01 MARINE ART, DALE BYHRE’S ABERDEEN GREEN, WITH FOOTNOTES, #306

Feb 3, 2022

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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

Jan 26, 2022

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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

Jan 6, 2022

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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, With Footnotes, #302. Waldo Peirce, Sirens of Searsport

Jan 6, 2021

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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…

Georges Jules Victor Clairin; A Sunday by the sea; 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #300

Nov 4, 2020

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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…

Hippolyte Arnoux, Steamship Queen Elizabeth on the Suez Canal, c.1880, 01 Marine Photograph, With Footnotes, #295

Sep 15, 2020

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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…

A. van Beurden Jr; Fishing boats in the harbor of Oostende 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #292

Jul 26, 2020

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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

Jul 17, 2020

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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

Jul 5, 2020

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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…

William Alexander Coulter, Ships at Dawn 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #289

Jul 4, 2020

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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…

René Marie Dujardin, The Shipyard 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #287

Jun 20, 2020

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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…

John Allcot, Cutty Sark 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #285

Jun 16, 2020

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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.…

James Webb, Fresh Breeze off Texel 01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #298

Jun 10, 2020

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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…

Isabelle Joubert, Deep breath 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #284

Jun 7, 2020

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