Tag: Ship
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Joe Duncan Gleason, Young America 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #177
The Young America was built by William H. Webb of New York. She was launched in 1853, at the height of the clipper construction boom. She sailed in the California trade, on transatlantic routes, and made voyages to Australia and the Far East. She set a record for the passage from Liverpool to San Francisco in…
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Edmond Henri Théodore de Palézieux, The Rescue Ship 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #167
Edmond de Palézieux , born Edmond Henri Théodore de Palézieux, said Falconnet in Vevey ( Switzerland ) July 20, 1850, and died in Equihen-Plage ( Pas-de-Calais ) June 11, 1924, is a Swiss painter . His work is known for his views showing storms and sailors fighting the raging elements. Edmond de Palézieux wanted a…
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Henry Scott, The clipper ship Ben Nevis 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #165
The Ben Nevis was an iron fullrigged ship built in 1868 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 218’0″×34’6″×21’0″ and 1109 GRT, 1061 NRT and 999 tons under deck. The forecastle was 36 feet long and the poop 46 feet. The Ben Nevis, built in 1868, was one of the new clippers at the time which were much…
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20th Century School, Passenger Ship Entering New York Harbor 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #150
Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for…
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Alberto Pasini, SHIP AT ANCHOR, CONSTANTINOPLE 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #130
Alberto Pasini, 1826 – 1899, ITALIAN SHIP AT ANCHOR, CONSTANTINOPLE Oil on canvas 37.5 by 29.5cm., 14½ by 11½in. Private collection Alberto Pasini (Busseto, 3 September 1826 – Cavoretto, 15 December 1899) was an Italian painter. He was enrolled at the age of 17 years, in the Academy of Fine Art of Parma, studying landscape painting…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5d
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Gustave Wertheimer, (Austrian, 1847–1904) A nude woman on ship/ The enchanted sleeper…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #76
Charles Edward Dixon ‘An Elizabethan Trader’ Watercolour 19 x 13in. Private collection European exploration of other continents began well before the Elizabethan Era, the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) that is often considered to be a golden age in English history. Since Italian explorer Marco Polo (1254–1324) first ventured to Asia…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #75
Kasia Derwinska, Spain The wait was long Photography 15.7 H x 15.7 W x 0.4 in Private collection 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…
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