Tag: Umbrellas
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Duncan Gleason’s U.S. Coast Guard Cutter ‘Bear’, with Footnotes, #328
USS Bear was a dual steam-powered and sailing ship built with six-inch (15.2 cm)-thick sides which had a long life in various cold-water and ice-filled environs. She was a forerunner of modern icebreakers and had a diverse service life. According to the United States Coast Guard official website, Bear is described as “probably the most famous…
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05 Paintings – Marine Art, CARLOS NADAL by the Sea, with Footnotes, #327
Nadal studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and the Senior Fine Art Academy of St George, both in Barcelona… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting – Marine Art, William Wyld’s Fishing boats in an Italian coastal landscape, with Footnotes, #328
Estimated for £1,500 – £2,000 in July 2022 William Wyld (1806-1889) was an English landscape and topographical painter in oils and watercolour. Wyld was born into a rich merchant family in 1806 in London. On the death of his father when Wyld was aged 20, he was made secretary to the British Consulate in Calais, where he got…
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02 Paintings – Marine Art, Rikki Kasso’s Breaking Waves, with Footnotes, #326
Artist Rikki Kasso is currently based in Byron Bay, Australia. The self-taught art director, photographer and multi-disciplinary visual artist left his native New York City for Shibuya… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Frank Henry Mason’s Unloading barges in Bristol harbour, With Footnotes, #321
Sold for £750 in Nov, 2018 Bristol Harbour covers an area of 70 acres (28 hectares). It is the former natural tidal river Avon through the city but was made into its current form in 1809 when the tide was prevented from going out permanently. A tidal by-pass was dug for 2 miles through the fields of…
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01 Photograph – Marine Art, Kasia Derwinska’s Melancholy has the scent of sea, With Footnotes, #323
On sale for C$1,095 in May 2025 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 are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most…
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01 Marine Painting – Charles Henry Fromuth’s Storm Sailing, With Footnotes, #323
Sold for $3,000 USD in Jun 2022 Concarneau is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The town has two distinct areas: the modern town on the mainland and the medieval Ville Close, a walled town on a long island in the centre of the harbour. Historically, the old town was a…
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01 Marine Painting – Robert Russ’ Boats in the Mist, With Footnotes, #323
Sold for $1,700 USD in June 2022 Robert Russ (1847, Vienna-1922, Vienna) was best known for watercolors, architectural views, urban genre scenes and landscapes with figures painted in the pure, classical style. Russ was born into a family of artists – both his father, Franz Russ and brother, the portrait and genre painter Franz Seraph Russ.…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Nicholas Takis’ Harbor Scene, with Footnotes, #325
Sold for $225 in Jun 2022 “Although Nicholas Takis enjoyed all of the luxuries of a millionaire’s son only a few years ago and today is selling his paintings for what he can get, the change in his fortune doesn’t bother him. He’s as “happy now as I ever was,” Evening Journal, 1930Nicholas Takis (1903-64) was born in…
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01 Marine Painting, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen’s Portrait of the Fluminense – With Footnotes, #369
Sold for $2,400 USD in Feb 2020 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 of Design before heading across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in the United…
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01 Photograph – Marine Art, Michael Ancher’s Three fishermen from Skagen hauling in their net, With Footnotes, #322
Estimated for kr300,000 DKK – kr500,000 DKK in Jun 2012 Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Danish realist artist. He is remembered above all for his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Ancher was born on the island of Bornholm. He attended school…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, C. F. Sørensen’s Navy with a convoy of Danish warships, With Footnotes, #320
Danish warships may have been part of convoys during wartime or in other conflicts. Convoys are groups of ships that travel together, often protected by larger or more heavily armed ships…Carl Frederik Sørensen (8 February 1818, Besser, Samsø – 24 January 1879, Copenhagen) was a Danish artist who specialized in marine painting. His paintings not only attracted…
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02 Marine Paintings, Richard Hayley Lever’s Fishing Boats at St. Ives, With Footnotes, #324
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Painting, Joseph Milne’s Tayport, With Footnotes, #324
Sold for £956.25 in May 2022 Tayport, also known as Ferry-Port on Craig, is a town and burgh, and parish, in the county of Fife, Scotland, acting as a commuter town for Dundee. Tayport lies close to the north east tip of Fife. To the north it looks across the River Tay to Broughty Ferry and…
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01 Marine Painting, William Bradley Lamond’s Carting Seaweed, With Footnotes, #323
William Bradley Lamond RBA (1857–1924) was a Scottish painter, born at Newtyle, Angus. He had no formal art training and worked for the Caledonian Railway company for many years. He initially specialised in portraits and later worked on landscapes which have been described as “vigorous impressionistic scenes in oil – with a strong use of colour”.…
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01 Marine Painting, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen’s La Champagne, With Footnotes, #322
Sold for $8,500 USD in May 2022 The La Champagne was a French steel steamer commissioned in 1885 by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) in St. Nazaire alongside her sister ships La Bourgogne, La Bretagne, and La Gascogne. These four steamers would service CGT’s route between Le Havre and New York. La Champagne was built to accommodate…
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01 Work, Marine Art, Barry Hilton’s Sleeping Galleons, With Footnotes, #316
A traditionally serene example of Barry Hilton’s marine artworks, often depicting large Galleons of the 18th century in a similarly traditional style. The artwork conveys a tranquil tone with a mysterious tone that underlies the large scale oil on canvas. Barry’s dark and earthy tones and muted palette convey an eeriness that he seamlessly captures…
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03 Marine Works, Aiden Lassell Ripley’s Scrubbing the Hull, With Footnotes, #321
An outdoorsman as well as a painter, Aiden Lassell Ripley was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1897. He trained briefly at the Fenway School of Illustration before joining the Army in 1917… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Marine Art, Walter Langley’s perils of fishing life in a Cornish Village, with Footnotes, #87
Walter Langley devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events at sea impacting on people at home… Please follow link for full post
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