Tag: Seascape
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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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MARIAN MARCEL, Les frôleuses 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 46
Les frôleuses; Provocative woman; seductive. Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920 in Antwerp – September 19, 1993 in Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. Mariën was one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but…
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Vilhelm Karl Ferdinand Arnesen, Royal Danish Navy 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #204
Wilhem Karl Ferdinand Arnesen (Danish, 1865-1948). Arnesen’s father was a skipper and a builder of model ships developing Arnesen’s interest for maritime at a very young age. Later when Arnesen was educated at the Academy of Arts he was given the highly esteemed honour to accompany the Danish Royal family on their many travels abroad. Arnesen…
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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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Vilhelm Karl Ferdinand Arnesen: Leaving Copenhagen 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #203
Wilhem Karl Ferdinand Arnesen (Danish, 1865-1948). Arnesen’s father was a skipper and a builder of model ships developing Arnesen’s interest for maritime at a very young age. Later when Arnesen was educated at the Academy of Arts he was given the highly esteemed honour to accompany the Danish Royal family on their many travels abroad. Arnesen…
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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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Hendrik Willem Mesdag, SHIPS AT SEA, 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #201
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter born in Groningen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856, and when they inherited a fortune from her father, Mesdag retired at the age of 35 to pursue a career…
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Joseph Steininger; Abaft 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #200
Joseph Steininger is an artist and innovator. Using intricately detailed and hand-cut stencils applied with spray paint, his personal work is influenced by street art culture and printmaking. Using the traditional and time-honored forms of fine art, his pieces are remarkably complex and masterfully represent this contemporary medium. Though spray paint is still seen by many…
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Jock MacInnes; SEAGULLS’ SALUTE. 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #197
Jock MacInnes R.G.I. (Scottish B.1943) studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he graduated in 1966. Like many Artists Jock MacInnes spent his early career teaching Art – in his case at the Glasgow School of Art. Throughout his time teaching Jock continued with his own painting regularly exhibiting and winning art Awards and Scholarships.…
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Joaquin Sorolla; Sewing the Sail 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #193
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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Moses Kisling; Port of Saint Tropez 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #186
Saint-Tropez is a town on the French Riviera, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southeastern France. Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first town on this coast to be liberated during World War…
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Jacob Adriaensz Bellevois; Stormy Seas 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #183
Jacob Adriaensz Bellevois (1621, Rotterdam – 1676, Rotterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age marine painter. His teacher is not known, but the influence of Julius Porcellis (c. 1609–1645), who worked in Rotterdam, seems apparent in the monochrome tendencies evident in his style. Bellevois presumably lived and worked in Rotterdam at least until after the death of…
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Alicia Savage, Waiting Sails 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #182
Alicia Savage is a Boston fine art photographer and illustrator. Her self-portrait series, “Destinations”, is an organic exploration and evolving documentation of her present and past. Inspired by her curiosity and fueled by her imagination she investigates significant aspects of family history and the subsequent places she finds herself with in her multi-faceted life. Utilizing herself…
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Attributed to Kasper van Eyck, A naval battle 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #172
Gaspar or Casper van Eyck (bapt. 6 February 1613 in Antwerp – bef. December 1674 in Brussels), was a Flemish painter of marine subjects and sea-fights.Van Eyck was received into the Guild of St. Luke in 1632. He traveled to Genova, where he collaborated with Cornelis de Wael. From 1656 until his death he worked…
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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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