Tag: Sand
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Arthur David McCormick, The Return of the Pirates 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #217
Arthur David McCormick FRGS (Coleraine 14 October 1860 – 1943) was a notable British illustrator and painter of landscapes, historical scenes, naval subjects, and genre scenes. McCormick was born in Ulster and, after education at local schools, went to London. McCormick was educated at the Royal College of Art in 1883–1886. He worked for The English…
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Peter Clapham Sheppard, DRY DOCK 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #208
Peter Clapham Sheppard ARCA OSA (1882-1965) Born in Toronto on October 21, 1882, Peter C. Sheppard would go on to study at the Ontario Collage of Art where, like many of the finest artists of his generation, he received an artistic education from George Reid, John William Beatty, and William Cruickshank. He had a very successful career…
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C.I. GIBBONS, ORIOLE, AILEEN AND ZELMA 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #206
In 1861 the Prince of Wales was asked by members of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club (R.C.Y.C.) if he would donate a cup to commemorate his visit to Toronto the previous year. He agreed and so began the annual Prince of Wales Cup Race on Lake Ontario. During the 1880s the Aileen and Oriole –…
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Ernest Slingeneyer, Fighting on the Sea 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #216
The painting depicts a true incident from the war of the first French republic, as the artist remarks in the catalog of the exhibition in The Hague 1857. The French ship Le Feu sank during a campaign in the North Sea, only five sailors managed to enter a raft. After two days they were spotted…
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Net menders 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #215
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was born in Valencia. He and his younger sister were orphaned 2 years later when both their parents died from a cholera outbreak. From an early age it was clear that Sorolla had a passion for art. Instead of academic study, the young Sorolla would spend his…
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Claudio Missagia, Umbrellas 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #205
Claudio Missagia was born in 1959 Italy. Claudio works with acrylique and plaster on canvas to produce large-scale paintings defined by a dream atmosphere. Exploring representations of chandeliers, lamps, cups and landscape scenes, Claudio plays with composition, utilising a moody colour palette to create a dream dimension to his work. He abandoned his career in business…
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Charles Haigh Wood; Mending the sail 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #214
Charles Haigh-Wood, (British, 1856-1927) was a genre painter, who lived in London, Bury and Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Haigh-Wood’s enchanting visions of romance, with attractive girls and pretty dresses are some of the most endearing and popular of all images. His patrons adored them, a successful businessman of Haigh-Wood’s day with any pretension to artistic taste had to…
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Jane Long; Worth my Salt 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #202
Jane Long is a photographer and digital artist, born in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. Currently based in Brisbane, Australia, she combines photography and photomanipulation to create slightly surreal images that straddle the line between reality and fantasy. Completely self-taught, she has worked with Photoshop since 1994, both commercially and for personal work. More recently she has…
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Edward Aubrey Hunt; Shipping in a heavy swell 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #146
Edward Aubrey Hunt, 1855 – 1922, was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Educated at Weymouth, Boston, Mass. and entered the architectural firm of Emerson & Fehmer but decided to take art as a career and admitted to L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and studied in there for five years. He returned to London in 1878…
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Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, A MERCHANTMAN OFF VEERE 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #219
Veere is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the region of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland. Wolfert Van Borssele established a ferry and ferry house there in 1281. In the same year Wolfert also built the castle Sandenburg on one of the dikes he had built. On 12 November 1282, Count Floris V. thereupon…
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Wilson Irvine; Low Tide 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #213
Wilson Henry Irvine (28 February 1869 – 1936) was a master American Impressionist landscape painter. Irvine spent his early career near Chicago, a product of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Irvine also painted across Western Europe — where he produced outstanding American Impressionist versions of the local countryside. Irvine is best known for his…
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Adolf Heinrich Wriggers; Port Of Hamburg 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #212
The Port of Hamburg is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. The port is almost as old as the history of Hamburg itself. Founded on 7 May 1189 by Frederick I for its strategic location, it has been Central Europe’s main port for centuries…
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Henry Bacon, La Bretagne 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #211
SS La Bretagne was an ocean liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique from her launch in 1886 to 1912, sailing primarily in transatlantic service on the North Atlantic. Sold to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique in 1912, she sailed for that company under her original name and, later, as SS Alesia on France–South America routes.…
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Allaert van Everdingen, A shipwreck on a rocky coast 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #210
Allaert van Everdingen, (born June 18, 1621, Alkmaar, the Netherlands—died November 8, 1675, Amsterdam), Dutch painter and engraver known for his landscapes recalling the scenery of Scandinavia. According to the Dutch art historian Arnold Houbraken, Everdingen studied under Roelant Savery at Utrecht and under Pieter de Molijn at Haarlem. He eventually settled in Amsterdam. His…
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PELEG FRANKLIN BROWNELL, BONAVENTURE ISLAND 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #207
Though Peleg Franklin Brownell found his favourite sketching grounds close to his home in Ottawa, he also explored and created works set in the areas of the Lower St. Lawrence, the Little Saguenay River and the Gaspé Peninsula. Brownell’s works exhibit great technical ability. His landscapes, which arise out of vigourously applied brushstrokes, are thoughtfully…
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Abraham Storck, the Four Days Battle 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #158
The Four Days’ Battle was a naval battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Fought from 1 June to 4 June 1666 in the Julian or Old Style calendar then used in England off the Flemish and English coast, it remains one of the longest naval engagements in history. The Dutch inflicted significant damage on the English…
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Michael Zeno Diemer, Homeward Bound 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #132
Michael Zeno Diemer, (1867 – 1939) Homeward Bound, Oil on canvas 26.75″h x 37.25″w Private collection Michael Zeno Diemer (* 8. February 1867 in Munich ; † 28. February 1939 in Oberammergau ) was a German painter. He studied from 1884 in Munich with Gabriel Hackl and Sándor Liezen-Mayer . Diemer was known for his impressive…
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Felix Bonfils, Port of Beirut 01 Photograph, Marine Art – With Footnotes, #178
The Port of Beirut is the main port in Lebanon located on the eastern part of the Saint George Bay on Beirut’s northern Mediterranean coast, west of the Beirut River. The name of Beirut Port has been mentioned since the fifteenth century BC in the mutual letters of the Pharaohs and the Phoenicians, and during the…
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Ruth Mulvie, Into the Blue 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #160
“One of the themes I often visit in my work is the seaside. This painting in particular was made after a visit to the beautiful Mediterranean island of Corsica with my mother. I love watching figures on the beach, the assorted shapes and sizes of the human form, a simple clear backdrop, and the striking…
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WAGNER, KARL THEODOR, View Over the River Thames on the Tower Bridge Under Construction. 1892. 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #158
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London built in 1886–1894. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and has become an iconic symbol of London. Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges now owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by…