Tag: Sea
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George Willem Opdenhoff, FISHING BOATS ON SCHEVENINGEN BEACH 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #129
George Willem Opdenhoff, 1807-1873, DUTCH FISHING BOATS ON SCHEVENINGEN BEACH Oil on canvas 48 by 68.5cm., 19 by 27in. Private collection Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands. The earliest reference to the name Sceveninghe goes back to around 1280. The village was continuously hit by storms. After this last storm, the villagers decided to…
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Frank H. Mason, Clipper Ship 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #123
Frank H. Mason, New York/Ohio (1921-2009) Clipper Ship Watercolor and gouache on paper 28 inches x 18 inches Private collection A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the middle third of the 19th century, generally either a schooner or a brigantine. They had multiple types of sail plans but the most common was three…
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Jean Dufy, French, Le Port 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #122
Jean Dufy, French, 1888-1964 Le Port Watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board 17 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches (45 x 60 cm) Private collection Jean Dufy (b Le Havre, France, 1888; d La Boissière, 1964) French Painter. Following his service in the military, from 1910-1912, Jean Dufy relocated to Paris. Inspired by the work of Braque and…
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Montague Dawson, Night Suspect Pursuit 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #121
Montague Dawson, British, 1895-1973 Night Suspect (A British Coast Guard Cutter in Pursuit) Oil on canvas 25 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm) Private collection The painting depicts the dramatic chase on a moonlit night by the British Coast Guard, firing a canon at suspected smugglers in the English Channel. More on this painting Montague…
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Théodore Gudin, Loss of East Indiaman Kent 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #120
Théodore Gudin, (1802–1880) Loss of East Indiaman Kent, c. 1828 Oil on canvas Height: 259 cm (101.9 in); Width: 417.5 cm (13.6 ft) Musée national de la Marine, Paris The Kent was an East Indiaman, a vessel sailing for the British East India Company, and launched in 1820. She completed two voyages to Bombay and China for…
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Adolf von Meckel, FISHERMEN ON LAKE MARIOUT, EGYPT – 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #118
Adolf von Meckel, 1856 – 1893, GERMAN FISHERMEN ON LAKE MARIOUT, EGYPT, c. 1889 Oil on canvas 200 by 270cm., 78¾ by 106in. Private collection Lake Mariout is a brackish lake in northern Egypt. The lake area covered 200 km² and had a navigable canal at the beginning of the 20th century, but at the…
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Willy Tiedjen, Hamburg Harbor, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #40a
Willy Tiedjen (1881 Hamburg – 1950 Munich) Hamburg Harbor with the Kaiserspeicher ( Kaiser Memorial) and St. Michael’s Church Oil on canvas 48.5 x 70.5 Private collection 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…
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Otto von Thoren, Bathing by the sea 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #117
Otto von Thoren (Austrian, 1828-1889) Bathing by the sea, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 25-3/4 x 31-1/4 inches (65.4 x 79.4 cm) Private collection Otto von Thoren (21 July 1828 Vienna, 15 July 1889 in Paris) is an Austrian animal painter. He was the son of son of Francis Casimir Thoron and Constance Marie-Françoise Lochmann Otto von…
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Robert McVittie, At the Dock 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #115
Robert McVittie, Canadian, (1935 – 2002) At the Dock Oil on canvas 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm) Private collection Robert McVittie ( August 1, 1935 – 2002 ) Born in England, McVittie trained for a naval career at the Thames Nautical Training College, and worked in the Merchant Navy before moving to Canada…
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Ivan Aivazovsky, Black Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #116
Ivan Aivazovsky, (1817–1900) Black Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia, just before the Crimean War, c. 1890 Oil on canvas 53 × 107 cm (20.9 × 42.1 in) Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia, Crimea Feodosia (was a Russian; Ukrainian; Crimean Tatar; Turkish; and Venetian port), also called Theodosia, is a port and resort, a town of regional…
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Montague Dawson, The moonlit way – The Invercargill 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #114
Montague Dawson, (British, 1895-1973) The moonlit way – The Invercargill, c. 1938 Oil on canvas 28 x 42 inches (71.1 x 106.7 cm) Private collection THE INVERCARGILL. During the year 1874 Robert Duncan built six ships—the Invercargill, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Nelson, and Dunedin—to the order of Patrick Henderson, for the New Zealand trade. They were all…
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Arthur James Wetherall Burgess, Glendale, The brotherhood of seamen 01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #113
Arthur James Wetherall Burgess Glendale The brotherhood of seamen National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Although the rescue incident shown in this painting is fictitious, the ship, ‘Glendale‘, was real and was a cargo liner built for the Glen Line in 1939. ‘Glengyle’ was the fifth to bear the name and was built by the Caledon…
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Samuel Walters, THE BRITISH MERCHANTMAN CLIFFORD IN A STIFF BREEZE 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #111
Samuel Walters, LONDON 1811 – 1882 LIVERPOOL THE BRITISH MERCHANTMAN CLIFFORD IN A STIFF BREEZE, PREPARING TO PICK UP HER PILOT OFF THE GREAT ORME, NORTH WALES, ON THE RETURN FROM HER MAIDEN VOYAGE TO INDIA, c. 1885 Oil on canvas 63.5 x 99.2 cm.; 25 x 39 in. Private collection The iron ship Clifford was…
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Dutch School, A Dutch Fleet in a Storm 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #110
Dutch School, 17th Century A Dutch Fleet in a Storm Oil on canvas 29 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches (75.5 x 65.5 cm) Private collection The Dutch School were painters in the Netherlands from the early Renaissance to the Baroque. It includes Early Netherlandish (1400–1500) and Dutch Renaissance (1500–1584) artists active in the northern Low Countries and,…
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ANTONIO JACOBSEN, Harmonia 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #109
ANTONIO JACOBSEN, 1850-1921 Harmonia, circa 1875-76. Oil on canvas 18 by 30 inches, (45.7 by 76.2 cm) Private collection Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November 2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the “Audubon of Steam Vessels”. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where he attended the Royal Academy…
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Hans Bohrdt, Wilhelm Gustloff in the Port of Hamburg, c. 1939 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #104
Hans Bohrdt, (11 February 1857 – 19 December 1945) Wilhelm Gustloff in the Port of Hamburg, c. 1939 Oil on canvas 80 x 120 cm Private collection MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German cruise ship transformed into a military transport ship. She was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea,…
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William Edward Webb, View of a Harbor 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #109
William Edward Webb, English, 1862-1903 View of a Harbor Oil on canvas 22 x 38 inches (56 x 96.5 cm) Private collection William Edward Webb (British, 1862-1903). A permanent resident of Manchester, he widely frequented the coasts and ports of Great Britain, producing an impressive output of active scenes celebrating the challenges faced by those who…
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