Tag: Ships
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Laurits Bernhard Holst, Shipping off Gibraltar 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #125
Laurits Bernhard Holst, Danish 1848-1934 Shipping off Gibraltar, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 42.8x70cm Private collection Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered to the north by Spain. In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of…
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Hamilton Hayes, Pilot House Vineyard Haven 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #124
Hamilton Hayes, Georgetown, MA, United States Pilot House Vineyard Haven Oil on Canvas 36 H x 36 W x 1 in Private collection A Pilot House or Deckhouse is for a ship’s helmsman; containing the steering wheel, compass, and navigating equipment Vineyard Haven is the main port of entry to Martha’s Vineyard. The Steamship Authority wharf is located in…
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Jean-Pierre Kunkel, Pool No. 21 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #123
Jean-Pierre Kunkel, Germany Pool No. 21 Oil on Canvas 39.4 H x 39.4 W x 1.6 in Private collection Jean-Pierre Kunkel was born 1950 in France. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany). He worked for 40 years as a freelance advertising illustrator…
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Linda Weir, ST. IVES HARBOUR 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #118
Linda Weir SPRING LIGHT, ST. IVES HARBOUR Oil on canvas 23 1/5 × 38 in; 59 × 96.5 cm Private collection 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…
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Tommaso de Simone, HMS Pallas coming into port, c. 1884 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #121
Tommaso de Simone, Italian 1805-1888 The sail and steamship HMS Pallas coming into port, c. 1884 Oil on canvas 26×39.5 Private collection HMS Pallas was a purpose-built wooden-hulled ironclad of the Royal Navy, designed as a private venture by Sir Edward Reed, and accepted by the Board of Admiralty because, as an economy measure, they wished…
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John H. ‘Jock’ Wilson, Seascape with Boats and Figures 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #122
John H. ‘Jock’ Wilson, (1774–1855) (attributed to) Seascape with Boats and Figures Oil on canvas 46 x 61.2 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne John H. “Jock” Wilson (1774 in Ayr – 1855 in Folkestone) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter, president of the Society of British Artists in 1827. Wilson was apprenticed at age…
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Julian TAYLOR, THE PONTOON 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #120
Julian TAYLOR, Born in Paris in 1954 LE PONTON (DOUARNENEZ), THE PONTOON (DOUARNENEZ) Oil on canvas 20 1/10 × 25 3/5 in; 51 × 65 cm Private collection Douarnenez is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The legendary city of Ys, of Breton folklore, is believed to lie beneath Douarnenez Bay. The port is…
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Jakub Schikaneder, Utonulá/Drowned, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #116
Jakub Schikaneder Utonulá/Drowned, c. 1893 Pastel height 455 mm, width 880 mm National Gallery in Prague Jakub Schikaneder (February 27, 1855 in Prague – November 15, 1924 in Prague) was a painter from Bohemia. Schikaneder came from the family of a German customs office clerk. Despite the family’s poor background, he was able to pursue his…
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Charles Ernest Cundall, REGATTA 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #119
Charles Ernest Cundall REGATTA Oil on canvas 24 2/5 × 40 1/5 in; 62 × 102 cm Private collection A regatta is a series of boat races. The term typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft. A regatta often includes social and promotional activities which surround the racing event, and except in the…
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J. M. W. Turner, The Fish Market at Hastings Beach 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #51c
M. W. Turner, (1775–1851) The Fish Market at Hastings Beach, c. 1810 Oil on canvas Height: 908.05 mm (35.75 in). Width: 1,206.5 mm (47.5 in) Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Hastings and the sea. In the 13th century Hastings had suffered over the years from the lack of a natural harbour. Attempts were made to…
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Edward William Cooke, Vessels on the Sands at Hastings 06 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #51b
Montague Dawson, RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) GLEAMING FOAM, CHARIOT OF FAME oil on canvas 61 by 91.5cm., 24 by 36in Private collection Chariot of Fame, a handsome clipper of 1639 tons built in America and flying the flag of the famous White Star Company. She had excellent accommodation for passengers, and before she was chartered by the…
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Montague Dawson, CHARIOT OF FAME 06 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #51a
Montague Dawson, RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) GLEAMING FOAM, CHARIOT OF FAME oil on canvas 61 by 91.5cm., 24 by 36in Private collection Chariot of Fame, a handsome clipper of 1639 tons built in America and flying the flag of the famous White Star Company. She had excellent accommodation for passengers, and before she was chartered by the…
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CAMILLE PISSARRO, Bords de l’Oise 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #115
CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830 – 1903) Bords de l’Oise, Environs de Pontoise, c. 1872 Banks of the Oise, surroundings of Pontoise, c. 1872 Oil on canvas 32.4 x 40.9 cm (12 ¾ x 16 ⅛ inches) Private collection The Oise is a river of Belgium and France, flowing for 341 kilometers (212 mi) from its source in the…
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MEDORA HEATHER BENT, St Ives by Moonlight 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #114
MEDORA HEATHER BENT, (Irish, 1901-1992) St Ives by Moonlight Oil on canvas 50 x 61cm (19 11/16 x 24in) Private collection 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…
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JOHN HENRY WITT, In the Canoe 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #113
JOHN HENRY WITT, American (1840-1901) In the Canoe Oil on canvas 21 x 27 inches Private collection John Witt (1840 – 1901) began his career in Dublin, Indiana as a wagon painter in a small agricultural implement factory owned by his uncle. At the age of eighteen, Witt went to study in Cincinnati during the late 1850s…
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Pieter COOPSE, Naval PC battle between English and Dutch 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #112
Pieter COOPSE, (active Amsterdam 1668 – 1677) Naval PC battle between English and Dutch Oak panel, three reinforced planks 70 x 108.5 cm – 27 1/2 X 42 3/4 IN. Private collection Pieter Coopse or Pieter Jansz. Coops (ca.1640, – 1673), was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter and draughtsman from Hoorn in the Northern Netherlands.…
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Montague Dawson, RACING HOME 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #141
Montague Dawson R.S.M.A., F.R.S.A., 1895-1973, BRITISH RACING HOME, THE CHINA CLIPPERS CHRYSOLITE AND STORNOWAY ALMOST NECK-AND-NECK, “The RIVALS”/ The race of the Chrysolite Oil on canvas 28 by 42 in., 71.1 by 106.8 cm Private collection While the majority of Montague Dawson’s works take place on the high seas, Racing Home is a rare composition…
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Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Port de Montréal 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #140
Marc-Aurèle Fortin, ARCA (1888-1970) Port de Montréal, c. 1928 Watercolour 9″ x 9¾”. Private collection The Port of Montreal (French: Port de Montréal) is a port and transshipment point on the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On the Saint Lawrence Seaway 1,600 kilometres inland from the Atlantic Ocean, it is on the shortest direct…
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