04 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #56

J. 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 is a town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England. It gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place in 1066. The town later became one of the medieval Cinque Ports, and a popular seaside resort in the 19th century with the coming of the railway. Hastings is a fishing port with a beach-based fishing fleet.

The fishing fleet is Europe's largest beach-launched fishing fleet and has recently won accreditation for its sustainable methods. The fleet has been based on the same beach, below the cliffs at Hastings, for at least 400, possibly 600, years. Its longevity is attributed to the prolific fishing ground of Rye Bay nearby.  More on Hastings

Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. More on Joseph Mallord William Turner

Jean Baptiste Olive, (1848-1936) 

Landing in heavy weather 

Oil on canvas; signed lower left 

23 5/8 x 36 3/16 in.

Private collection

Jean-Baptiste Olive (July 31, 1848- 1936) was a French painter. The son of a wine merchant. Étienne Cornellier, a decorator, encouraged him to register at École des beaux-arts de Marseille. There he received several awards including, in 1871, the live model class's first prize. While training as a decorator, he painted many scenes of Marseille, its Vieux-Port, its islands, and its seashore. In 1874 he travelled to Italy, mainly to Genoa and Venice. He occasionally participated in some of Provence's exhibitions at the time.

From 1874 onward he exhibited repeatedly at Salon de Paris and was awarded several prizes there. In 1881 he became a member of Société des Artistes Français. In 1882 he relocated to Paris. 

In 1930, aged 82, he was awarded the Léon Bonnat prize. More on Jean-Baptiste Olive

Louise d'Aussy Pintaud 

Port of Luerca, 1967 

Oil on canvas 

90 x 59 cm 

Private collection

The main village of Luarca is known locally as the White Village because its gracefulness and tidiness. Luarca was a very important whaling port which brought a lot of wealth to the area. The port of Luarca is the Centre of Giant Squid which is one of the largest and most important collections of cephalopods of the world. Luarca (Valdes) is also home to some of the best beaches in Asturias. More on Port of Luerca

Louise d’Aussy-Pintaud, 1900-1990 was a painter and sculptor. She was born in Bordeaux, France in 1900. Her primary areas of focus were nudes, landscapes, and busts. She exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1934.

D’Aussy-Pintaud began painting under the influence of her grandfather, an avid - albeit amateur - painter. She becam a student of sculptor M. A. Seysse, also in Bordeaux. Later, she would study under painter and mentor Biloul while attending the Gustave Moreau School in Paris.

Her earlier work is her best known, for her ability to observe the naked form in a refined and what has been described as an even chaste manner. D’Aussy-Pintaud’s painting of figures is classic and purist, while the very expressive backgrounds and landscapes are handled with expressionistic vigor.

Her work was exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français between 1934 and 1942. In 1944, D’Aussy-Pintaud would ultimatlely settle with her husband in the city of Ciboure (Lapurdi) until the time of her death in 1990. More on Louise d’Aussy-Pintaud

Augustus Koopman, (American, 1869-1914)

Le petit bateau à la voile/ The small sailing boat, c. 1904

Oil on canvas

32 x 39-1/2 inches (81.3 x 100.3 cm)

Private collection

Augustus B. Koopman (1869-1914), American,  is known for painting scenes of France and the American West. As part of a large community of American expatriate artists in turn-of-the century Paris, Koopman spent a great deal of time at the coast in Etaples near Belgium, where the great Eugene Boudin frequented. It is along this coast that Koopman painted many scenes of the marine activities and people at their roles.

The first steps of his art education took him through the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and then on to several Parisian groups. While in France, he did travel widely to other countries, but he recorded his belief that the Boulogne coast of Northern France was the most picturesque in the world. He would rather late in his cut-short life and career, visit the Grand Canyon, and his painting of it is in the Santa Fe Railroad Collection, while several of his images are in the collections of the Congressional Library and New York Public libraries.  More on Augustus Koopman

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