Tag: Umbrellas
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Charles Brooking, TWO MEN-OF-WAR IN A GALE 02 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #227
Charles Brooking (c.1723–59) was an English painter of marine scenes. Despite his short life, Charles Brooking was one of the most influential British marine painters of the eighteenth century. His best work was achieved in the final decade of his life. Brooking excelled at painting shipping in calm conditions, using luminous glazes to give a sense…
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Anna Sidi-Yacoub, Jump 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #226
Anna Sidi-Yacoub, a Graphic Designer and Artist living in Co.Kerry, Ireland. She’s inspired by the natural sunlight, vivid colors found in nature and fluids. Her works are a visual celebration of human nature and life. Most of her abstract paintings are inspired by liquids, mainly water in oceans and rivers. Anna has been creating alluring artworks across a…
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William Alexander Coulter, Three Brothers 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #225
The Three Brothers was originally built as the iron paddle-steamer Cornelius Vanderbilt and launched 1857 at Greenpoint, New York. In 1873 the vessel converted to a full-rigged clipper without machinery. She spent most of her time in the grain trade between San Francisco, Le Havre, Liverpool, and New York City where she acquired an enviable reputation…
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Jack Lorimer Gray, New York Harbor 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #224
The West Side Docks are dozens of piers located along the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan in New York City Jack Lorimer Gray (April 28, 1927 — September, 1981) was a Canadian artist, known particularly for marine art. Jack Lorimer Gray was born in Halifax and studied at the Nova Scotia School of Art and…
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Charles Henry Gifford, Neapolitan fishing boats 01 Painting, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #223
Charles H. Gifford was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts July 13, 1839 died on January 20, 1904. He was a late second-generation Hudson River School painter. His canvases show a distinct preference for quiet scenes in which a luminous atmosphere veils roughness, light shines with clarity and stillness is achieved by means of even brushstrokes.…
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, SHIP IN DISTRESS 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #223
Helmsman at the wheel with other people pleading for help in the stormy waves. The scene increased by the tilt of the ship’s deck, with a view of the dangerous rushing waves in the background. The dramatic happenings in the night moonlight, which makes the spray light up. More on this painting Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky…
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Henry Bayley Snell, Ship at Sail & Steam and Sailboat 02 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #147
Henry Bayley Snell (1858–1943) was an American Impressionist painter and educator. Snell’s paintings are in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Snell was born on September 29, 1858 in Richmond, England. In 1875 he emigrated to the New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Snell…
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Romain Steppe, De Rede van Antwerpen 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #222
The Port of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium, is a port in the heart of Europe accessible to capesize ships. It is Europe’s second-largest seaport, after Rotterdam. Antwerp stands at the upper end of the tidal estuary of the Scheldt. The estuary is navigable by ships of more than 100,000 Gross Tons as far as 80 km…
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Albert Marquet, MARSEILLE, LE VIEUX PORT/ MARSEILLE, THE OLD PORT 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #221
Marseille was an important European trading centre and remains the main commercial port of the French Republic. Marseille is now France’s largest city on the Mediterranean coast and the largest port for commerce, freight and cruise ships. More on Marseille Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He…
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Anthony Thieme, Harbour Scene 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #220
Anthony Thieme (20 February 1888 – 6 December 1954) was a landscape and marine painter and a major figure of the Rockport (MA) School of American regional art. Born in Rotterdam on 20 February 1888, Thieme studied at the Academie of Fine Arts in Rotterdam for two years and then, briefly, at the Royal Academy, the Hague.…
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Kasia Derwinska, Stories of dreams and shipwrecked 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #149
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 of them and I believe that…
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Dame Laura Knight, Mousehole Harbour 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #148
Mousehole is a village and fishing port in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Penzance on the shore of Mount’s Bay. An islet called St Clement’s Isle lies about 350 metres offshore from the harbour entrance. Mousehole lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Almost a third of…
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JOE NORRIS, FOUR SCHOONERS AT ANCHOR 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #209
Joe Norris was born in 1924 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The family moved to Lower Prospect when Joe was seven years old. Much of his childhood was characterized by sickness, in particular pleurisy. This kept him away from school a great deal of the time. Being confined, he took up painting to keep himself occupied. Later…
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Johnny Popkess, Coast Guard 01 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #147
Johnny Popkess was born in London, “I spent much of my early life in various fairly remote parts of Africa, developing a fondness for beauty in its most natural state – as things really are, rather than as they are often made to appear. I moved to the heart of Paris, within a stone’s throw of…
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Jonas Lie, Sailboats 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #145
Jonas Lie (April 29, 1880 – January 18, 1940), was born in Norway, and lived there until the death of his father at the age of twelve. He was sent to live with his uncle in Paris, a distinguished poet and novelist with the same name, but reunited with his mother, an American woman from…
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Michael Zeno Diemer, TALL SHIP OFF CRETE 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #218
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete and a number of surrounding islands and islets constitute the region of Crete. It was once the centre of the Minoan civilisation (c.…
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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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