Tag: Ships
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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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Henry A Martin, USS LANCASTER, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #190
The first USS Lancaster was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War. The first Lancaster was laid down by the Philadelphia Navy Yard in December 1857; launched 20 October 1858; sponsored by Miss Harriet Lane, niece and official hostess of President James Buchanan; and commissioned 12…
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John Charles Allcot, The Pamir in Sydney Harbour 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #127
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium’s inability to…
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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…
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Adrianus (Adri) Verveen, Harbor view Rotterdam 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #157
Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, located in South Holland, within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270 when a dam was constructed in the Rotte river by people settled around it for safety. In 1340 Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland and slowly…
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Adri Verveen, Portview, Rotterdam 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #156
Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, located in South Holland, within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270 when a dam was constructed in the Rotte river by people settled around it for safety. In 1340 Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland and slowly…
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LUDOLF BACKHUYSEN, “A Dutch man-of-war 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #153
Ludolf Backhuysen, one of the leading marine painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He was fascinated with light and how it illuminates the rolling waves of rough seas. More on this work Ludolf Bakhuizen (28 December 1630 – 17 November 1708) was a German-born Dutch painter, draughtsman, calligrapher and printmaker. He was the leading Dutch painter of maritime…
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Evert Moll, Harbor view Rotterdam 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #155
Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, located in South Holland, within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270 when a dam was constructed in the Rotte river by people settled around it for safety. In 1340 Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland and slowly…
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Ludolf Backhuysen; Fishing boats on the North Sea coast at high tide 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #153
Ludolf Bakhuizen (28 December 1630 – 17 November 1708) was a German-born Dutch painter, draughtsman, calligrapher and printmaker. He was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger left for England in 1672. He also painted portraits of his family and circle of friends. Bakhuizen was born in Emden,…
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Charles Anslow Thornley, Harbor in Gravesend 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #152
Gravesend is an ancient town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross on the south bank of the Thames Estuary and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Charles Thornley, British fl 1858 – 1893, was a member of the Royal Society of British Painters, working mainly in oil. He lived in London…
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Willi Bauer, Harbor Scene 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #151
Willi Bauer is a contemporary German painter known for his Impressionist-styled depictions of garden parties and rustic villages. Born on July 7, 1923 in Spessart, Germany, Bauer studied at the Staedel College of Fine Art in Frankfurt under the artist Della Villa. In the spirit of German painters like Otto Eduard Pippel, Bauer often painted people…
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Jan Kelderman, Harbour view 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #154
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands. Amsterdam’s name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city’s origin as a dam of the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became…
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Thomas Saliot, Green Hotel 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #149
Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas. Thomas Saliot was born in…
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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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Arthur Sarnoff, Hook Oars and Stand By 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #148
There are typically five oarsmen under the headsman in a whaleboat. The oarsman in the bow of the boat is the harpooneer — he whose job it is to stick the sharp-pointed arrow-headed iron spear into the body of the whale to “fasten” to it (it’s a huge fish hook, if you will). After a…
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The New York piers in the 1950s 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #145
The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal (and also known as Luxury Liner Row or New York Cruise Terminal) is a terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. More on The New York piers The New York piers in the…
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Netherlandish School 17th century, Large Fish Still Life 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #147
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, later, Dutch Golden Age painting in the United Provinces. Many painters, sculptors and architects of the seventeenth century are called “Dutch masters”, while earlier…
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Edward Moran, Passing Squall 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #18b
Squall, as used by weather forecasters, a sudden wind-speed increase of 8 metres per second (18 miles per hour) or more, for one minute or longer. It includes several briefer wind-speed changes, or gusts. A squall is often named for the weather phenomenon that accompanies it, such as rain, hail, or thunder; a line squall…
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CHARLES WYSOCKI, ROCKLAND BREAKWATER 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #144
The city of Rockland is located on the west side of Penobscot Bay in the Mid Coast region of Maine. Its harbor, long regarded as one of the finest east of Portland, was frequently used in the 19th century as a safe harbor during bad weather. It was less than ideally suited to this task, because…
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