Tag: Sea
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John Lovett; Down River 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #234
John Lovett was born in Cooma, NSW, Australia in 1953, and studied at the National Art School, Newcastle, Australia. He has been painting professionally since 1979. John works in oils, acrylics, watercolor, and mixed media. As John states: “For me, the unpredictability and uncontrollable nature of watercolor make it the most exciting and expressive medium of…
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Louis Gabriel Eugène Isabey, Boats in the storm 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #233
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (22 July 1803, in Paris – 25 April 1886, in Montévrain) was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style. He was born to Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a well known painter who enjoyed the patronage of the Imperial Family. Originally, he wanted to be a sailor, but his father insisted that…
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Rodney Winfield, At The Waters Edge 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #232
Rodney Winfield (1925-2017) was born in New York City. From an early age, he was artistically inclined; he composed music, drew and painted, danced, wrote poetry, and created sculptures. As a young man, he studied music composition with composer Carl Ruggles. Choosing to focus on fine art, he attended Cooper Union School of Art in New…
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Ellie Hesse; Breezy Day in St Ives 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #230
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a…
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Per Anders, Baywatch 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #231
This painting shows more or less my surroundings where I live at the southern edge of Denmark. The Baltic Ocean (or more correctly the fjord called Flensburg Fjord where Denmark is situated on the north side and Germany is situated on the other side, about 2 miles away) is right outside my windows and sailing…
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Nicholas Pocock, Destruction of the French squadron 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #229
The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off in the Caribbean. The French squadron, under Vice-Admiral Corentin Urbain Leissègues in the 120-gun Impérial, had sailed from Brest in December 1805, one of two squadrons intending…
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Rafaelle Berchtold, Physical state 02 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #359
“In nature there is a closed cycle. Everything flows. The sea is constantly changing dynamically. It permeates life and makes everything softer, smoother and more permeable. Water is formless, condenses, decomposes, sometimes it seems threatening, effervescent, then calm again, crystal clear, until mirror-smooth. Water refreshes and renews life. The element water symbolizes energy in the…
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Naima Rauam, Tug On The East River, 1992. 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #228
The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Queens on Long Island from the Bronx on the North…
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Charles Brooking, TWO MEN-OF-WAR IN A GALE 02 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #227
Charles Brooking (c.1723–59) was an English painter of marine scenes. Despite his short life, Charles Brooking was one of the most influential British marine painters of the eighteenth century. His best work was achieved in the final decade of his life. Brooking excelled at painting shipping in calm conditions, using luminous glazes to give a sense…
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Anna Sidi-Yacoub, Jump 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #226
Anna Sidi-Yacoub, a Graphic Designer and Artist living in Co.Kerry, Ireland. She’s inspired by the natural sunlight, vivid colors found in nature and fluids. Her works are a visual celebration of human nature and life. Most of her abstract paintings are inspired by liquids, mainly water in oceans and rivers. Anna has been creating alluring artworks across a…
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William Alexander Coulter, Three Brothers 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #225
The Three Brothers was originally built as the iron paddle-steamer Cornelius Vanderbilt and launched 1857 at Greenpoint, New York. In 1873 the vessel converted to a full-rigged clipper without machinery. She spent most of her time in the grain trade between San Francisco, Le Havre, Liverpool, and New York City where she acquired an enviable reputation…
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Jack Lorimer Gray, New York Harbor 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #224
The West Side Docks are dozens of piers located along the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan in New York City Jack Lorimer Gray (April 28, 1927 — September, 1981) was a Canadian artist, known particularly for marine art. Jack Lorimer Gray was born in Halifax and studied at the Nova Scotia School of Art and…
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Charles Henry Gifford, Neapolitan fishing boats 01 Painting, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #223
Charles H. Gifford was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts July 13, 1839 died on January 20, 1904. He was a late second-generation Hudson River School painter. His canvases show a distinct preference for quiet scenes in which a luminous atmosphere veils roughness, light shines with clarity and stillness is achieved by means of even brushstrokes.…
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, SHIP IN DISTRESS 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #223
Helmsman at the wheel with other people pleading for help in the stormy waves. The scene increased by the tilt of the ship’s deck, with a view of the dangerous rushing waves in the background. The dramatic happenings in the night moonlight, which makes the spray light up. More on this painting Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky…
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Henry Bayley Snell, Ship at Sail & Steam and Sailboat 02 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #147
Henry Bayley Snell (1858–1943) was an American Impressionist painter and educator. Snell’s paintings are in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Snell was born on September 29, 1858 in Richmond, England. In 1875 he emigrated to the New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Snell…
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Romain Steppe, De Rede van Antwerpen 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #222
The Port of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium, is a port in the heart of Europe accessible to capesize ships. It is Europe’s second-largest seaport, after Rotterdam. Antwerp stands at the upper end of the tidal estuary of the Scheldt. The estuary is navigable by ships of more than 100,000 Gross Tons as far as 80 km…
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Albert Marquet, MARSEILLE, LE VIEUX PORT/ MARSEILLE, THE OLD PORT 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #221
Marseille was an important European trading centre and remains the main commercial port of the French Republic. Marseille is now France’s largest city on the Mediterranean coast and the largest port for commerce, freight and cruise ships. More on Marseille Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He…
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Anthony Thieme, Harbour Scene 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #220
Anthony Thieme (20 February 1888 – 6 December 1954) was a landscape and marine painter and a major figure of the Rockport (MA) School of American regional art. Born in Rotterdam on 20 February 1888, Thieme studied at the Academie of Fine Arts in Rotterdam for two years and then, briefly, at the Royal Academy, the Hague.…
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Kasia Derwinska, Stories of dreams and shipwrecked 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #149
Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that…
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