Marine Art

01 Marine Painting, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen's La Champagne, With Footnotes, #322

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850-1921)

La Champagne, c. 1890

Oil on canvas

22 x 36 1/8 in. (55.9 x 91.8 cm.)

Private collection

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 390 first class, 65 second class, and 600 third class passengers and could travel at speeds of up to 17 knots. She was launched on May 15th, 1885 and approximately a year later in May 1886 departed Le Havre, France on her maiden voyage to New York, running this route until 1905.

In 1898, she made headlines with both the American and French press when alarmingly she was a week late arriving to New York and presumed missing. She was eventually discovered adrift at sea with 464 souls on board in desperate need of assistance.

In the present work, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen depicts the La Champagne in all her glory traversing across a stormy Atlantic ocean. The strong winds of the storm overhead have ripped two of her sails from their masts and tangled the one nearest her bow. Not only does La Champagne battle harsh winds, but the waves are so treacherous that they've reached her top decks taking with them one of her lifeboats. Despite these terrifying conditions, La Champagne and her crew push forward hopeful to arrive safely to port. Jacobsen has not only depicted in painstaking detail the likeness of one of France's most distinguished liners at the turn of the century, but masterfully created a scene filled with excitement and suspense. More on this painting

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 States in August 1873 and settled in West Hoboken, New Jersey (now Union City, New Jersey), across the Hudson River from Manhattan and New York Harbor. Jacobsen got his start painting pictures of ships on safes, and as his reputation grew, he was asked to do portraits of ships by their owners, captains and crew members, with many of his works sold for five dollars.

Jacobsen painted more than 6,000 portraits of sail and steam vessels, making him "the most prolific of marine artists". Many of his commissions came from sea captains, and Jacobsen was chosen both for the accuracy of his work and his low fee. More Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen

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01 Work, Marine Art, Barry Hilton's Sleeping Galleons, With Footnotes, #316

Barry Hilton, (b. 1941)

Sleeping Galleons

Oil on canvas

L 64cm x W 90cm

Private collection

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 in the overarching tone and dark atmosphere. More on this painting

Barry Hilton was born 1941 in Manchester UK. Whilst having no formal training, he moved to Cornwall in 1979 where the experience of working alongside a group of extremly active artists helped in the development of his artistic abilities. His love of nostalgia which he captures in his paintings of Gas Light Streets and Marine scenes are much sought after and are well represented in privat galleries throughout the UK.

Drawing inspiration from the land and the Northwest coastal regions with regular visits to Cornwall where he lived for 3 years, he paints in style which he has perfected over a number of years with finely painted skies in sharp contrast with a heavy textured foregrounds.

Colour is used more as a tool with which to interpret a scene, these can vary from vibrant reds and yellows, to almost apocalyptic greys, indigo blues and dark greens. The work does not duplicate the actual colours of the landscape, but rather conveys the creative imagination of a genuine and artistic talent.

Barry says: “I still operate on the less is more principle. My subject matter of coastal and interior countryside is largely derived from where I live but I am now making trips to very different areas, recently back to Cornwall, and the Yorkshire Dales which will he believes will lead him into a more abstract approach to his paintings. More on Barry Hilton

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03 Marine Works, Aiden Lassell Ripley's Scrubbing the Hull, With Footnotes, #321

Aiden Lassell Ripley

Scrubbing the Hull, c. 1928

Watercolor

5 5/8 x 19 3/8 in.

Private collection

Sold for $3,500.00 in May 2019

AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY, (American, 1896-1969)

Sailboats, Low Tide, c. 1928

Watercolor

15 5/8 x 19 1/2 in

Private collection

Sold for $3,750.00 in May 2019

AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY, (American, 1896-1969)
Ladies on a Pier
Watercolor
18 1/2 x 22 1/4 in.,

Private collection

Estimate for $3,000 - $5,000 in May 2019

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. On his return he studied at the Boston Museum School under Frank Benson and Philip Hale. An avid conservationist, he became well-known for his sporting and wildlife scenes. By painting and drawing en plein-air in the landscape and environment that he loved, his work has a freshness and spontaneity that surpasses most of his contemporaries. At six foot two inches tall with his cowboy hat and hunting coat, 'Old Rip' was a familiar sight around the woods of his native New England. 'You couldn't stop him from hunting, fishing and painting', recalled a Boston Museum School classmate. Amongst his best known commissions were a mural for the Winchester, Massachusetts Public Library and a mural at the Lexington Post Office. He died in 1961 and his work is represented in a number of important institutional collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Chicago Art Institute. More on Aiden Lassell Ripley

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01 Marine Work, Henry Scott's Night watch - Foochow, With Footnotes #323

Henry Scott (British, 1911-2005)

Night Watch - Foochow

Oil on canvas

24 x 36in (61 x 91.4cm)

Private collection

Sold for US$14,025 in May 2022

Fuzhou, alternately Romanised as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong (lit. Eastern Fujian) linguistic and cultural area.

Henry Scott F.R.S.A, 1911-2005, British, was a painter of marines and coastal subjects strongly associated with the Royal Society of Artists. As well as painting lucrative shipping portraits for some of his wealthy clientele, he also executed a number of works of British and American clippers. His works have often been confused with those of Montague Dawson. Scott worked in a similar way to that of Dawson and captured a wonderful freshness and feel of immediacy. Scott’s palette is striking, with all surfaces and elements observed, capturing every movement in full flow. His sails are nearly always bellowed with a good stiff breeze, which is further emphasised by the spray of the water being wisped across the top of the choppy seas. Particularly notable are his skies which move the subject helping the canvas feel alive. In 1970 Scott was commissioned to paint ‘Morning Cloud’ which was skippered and owned by the then Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Edward Heath, P.C., M.B.E., M.P.. Scott exhibited at the Society of Marine Artists; The Royal Exchange, London; The Guildhall, London and The Royal Academy. He also exhibited at the St. Malo Museum, France and at Madison Square in New York. He was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and awarded an honorary Life Member ‘Cape Homers’ by the International Association of Master Mariners. More on Henry Scott

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01 Marine Work, Werner Drewes' Maine Harbor, With Footnotes, #322

Werner Drewes, (German/American, 1899-1985)

Maine Harbor, c. 1953

Oil on canvas

23 x 30 in., frame: 24 1/2 x 31 1/2 in.

Private collection

Sold for $7,500.00 in May 2019

Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than formal. Drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as for his painting. In his role as teacher as well as artist he was largely responsible for bringing the Bauhaus aesthetic to America. More on Werner Drewes

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01 Marine Work, George Savary Wasson's Seascape with Ships, With Footnotes, #319

George Savary Wasson (American, 1855-1926)

Seascape with Ships

Oil on canvas

17 x 24 in.

Private collection

Sold for $800.00 in May 2019

George Savary Wasson 1855-1932; was from a shipbuilding and seafaring family in Brooksville, Maine, George Wasson's father was a prominent Transcendentalist minister whose church was that of Thoreau and Emerson. His grandfather and uncle built and owned ships. From 1873- 1875, when his father went to Germany to study religion, Wasson studied art.

On his return from Germany, Wasson studied with J. Foxcroft Cole, a prominent Boston landscape artist and set up a studio. In 1876, together with his friend George Hatch, he modeled and built Gulnare, the first of his four boats. His last, the sloop Wave Crest is owner by the museum.

He became friendly with a number of Boston / Maine families, including the Bowditchs who eventually gave most of Isle au Haut to the nation.

In 1885, Wasson married Amelia Webb of Deer Isle, and moved to Kittery Point in 1888. In 1916, after losing both of their sons, the Wassons moved to Bangor.

Failing sight apparently curtailed his painting career. About 1900, he began writing vernacular stories of the Maine coast. These were published in magazines and collected into books. As a recorder of Maine coastal language, he ranks with Sarah Orne Jewett and Roland E. Robinson. More on George Savary Wasson

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01 Marine Work, William Edward Norton's Marine View, With Footnotes, #318

William Edward Norton (American, 1843-1916)

Marine View, c. 1877

Oil on canvas

16 x 24 in., frame: 26 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.

Private collection

Sold for $2,500.00 in May 2019

William Edward Norton (1843-1916), American. Born in Boston to a New England family of shipbuilders, Norton's interest in ships led him initially to a career at sea. After his sea service, he enrolled at both Harvard Medical School and the Lowell Institute, where his interest in art led him to study under the master American landscape painter, George Inness.

Later opening a studio in Boston, Norton enjoyed immediate success. From the sale of his paintings he financed further art studies in Europe. While painting in London, he found wide acceptance in many of the major European galleries, including the Paris salon, the most prestigious venue for an artist of his day to exhibit. He was awarded an honorable mention by the salon in 1900.

Returning to America he continued to receive strong recognition, representing the United States at the International Exposition of 1900 and winning the coveted Osorne Prize for marine painting in 1905 & 1906. Today, this important American artist's work continues to attract connoisseurs of quality marine paintings in both Europe and America. More William Edward Norton

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01 Painting, Marine Art, The Art of War, Yevgeny Kravtsov's The Naval Battle of Athos, with Footnotes, #40

Kravtsov, Yevgeny (1965 Russia)

The Naval Battle of Athos in the Russo-Turkish War

Oil on canvas

70.0 x 105.0 cm

Private collection

During the Russo-Turkish War, fought between 1806-1812, the Naval Battle of Athos occurs on June 19th 1807. A Russian fleet commanded by Admiral Dmitry Nikolayevich Senyavin, attacked and destroyed an Ottoman fleet of some 20 naval vessels under Kapudan Pasha (Ottoman Admiral) Seyit-Ali, between the Athos peninsula and the island of Lemnos, in Greece. As a result of the battle, the Ottoman Empire lost a combat-capable fleet for more than a decade and signed an armistice with Russia on 12 August. More on Naval Battle of Athos

Evgeny Mikhailovich Kravtsov was born in the Altai Territory in 1965. He received his art education at the Novoaltaisk Art School, where he later taught, and at the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He was the head of the Department of Painting and Drawing of the Moscow Academic Art School.

Yevgeny Kravtsov was largely inspired by the 1980s. The 1980s were an era of developing global capitalism, political upheaval, global mass media, wealth discrepancies and distinctive music and fashion, characterised by hip hop and electronic pop music. This had a heavy impact on the generation of artists growing up during this decade. The fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 1980s signified the end of the Cold War, yet the era was also marked by the African Famine. During this time prominent art movements included Neo Geo, The Pictures Generation and Neo-Expressionism, which took a strong hold in Germany, France and Italy. Artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorf, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel were leading artists working at this time, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, who established the street art and graffiti movements, which quickly gained recognition. More on Yevgeny Kravtsov

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01 Marine Work, GEORGE SAVARY WASSON's USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, With Footnotes, #320

GEORGE SAVARY WASSON (American, 1855-1932)

USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, c. 1901

Oil on canvas

30 x 45 in.

Private collection

The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War. The significantly more powerful US Navy squadron, consisting of four battleships and two armored cruisers, decisively defeated an outgunned and outdated squadron of the Royal Spanish Navy, which consisted of four armored cruisers and two destroyers. All the Spanish ships were sunk, but no American ship was lost. The crushing loss sealed American victory in the Cuban theater of the war and ensuring the independence of Cuba from Spanish rule. More on The Battle of Santiago de Cuba

The second USS Brooklyn (ACR-3/CA-3) was the third United States Navy armored cruiser, the only one to be named at commissioning for a city rather than a state.

She was launched on 2 October 1895 by William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia; sponsored by Miss Ida May Schieren, daughter of Charles A. Schieren, Mayor of Brooklyn, New York; and commissioned on 1 December 1896, Captain Francis Augustus Cook in command.

During the Spanish–American War, the Flying Squadron arrived at Cienfuegos, Cuba on 21 May and established the blockade of that port. On 26 May, the Squadron arrived at Santiago de Cuba, where the Spanish fleet was being held behind the protection of the forts. Brooklyn was a key vessel in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on 3 July, in which the Spanish Fleet was destroyed. Although she was struck 20 times by whole shot, Brooklyn suffered only one man wounded and one man killed. More on the USS Brooklyn

George Savary Wasson 1855-1932; from a shipbuilding and seafaring family in Brooksville, Maine, George Wasson's father was a prominent Transcendentalist minister whose church was that of Thoreau and Emerson. His grandfather and uncle built and owned ships. From 1873- 1875, when his father went to Germany to study religion, Wasson studied art.

On his return from Germany, Wasson studied with J. Foxcroft Cole, a prominent Boston landscape artist and set up a studio. In 1876, together with his friend George Hatch, he modeled and built Gulnare, the first of his four boats. His last, the sloop Wave Crest is owner by the museum.

He became friendly with a number of Boston / Maine families, including the Bowditchs who eventually gave most of Isle au Haut to the nation.

In 1885, Wasson married Amelia Webb of Deer Isle, and moved to Kittery Point in 1888. In 1916, after losing both of their sons, the Wassons moved to Bangor.

Failing sight apparently curtailed his painting career. About 1900, he began writing vernacular stories of the Maine coast. These were published in magazines and collected into books. As a recorder of Maine coastal language, he ranks with Sarah Orne Jewett and Roland E. Robinson. More on George Savary Wasson

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03 Marine Works, Frederick (Frank) William Scarbrough's Pool of London, With Footnotes #317

Frederick (Frank) William, Scarbrough (British, 1863-1945)

Unloading, Pool of London

Watercolour heightened with bodycolour

33.7 x 51.4cm (13 1/4 x 20 1/4in)

Private collection

Sold for Sold for £1,275 in April 2022

The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse. Part of the Tideway of the Thames, the Pool was navigable by tall-masted vessels bringing coastal and later overseas goods—the wharves there were the original part of the Port of London. The Pool of London is divided into two parts, the Upper Pool and Lower Pool. The Upper Pool consists of the section between London Bridge and the Cherry Garden Pier in Bermondsey. The Lower Pool runs from the Cherry Garden Pier to Limekiln Creek. More on the Pool of London

Frank Scarbrough was a London artist who settled in Lincoln in 1908. He painted mainly in watercolours, often taking as his subject matter the busy shipping in the Pool of London, where ocean-going liners battled for space with soot grimed tugs and barges in the murky waters of the Thames. On other occasions he painted quite atmospheric pictures, which were often done in the late afternoon when he captured the different reflections on the water in places such as Whitby Bay.

Frederick (Frank) William, Scarbrough (British, 1863-1945)

Evening, Pool of London

Watercolour heightened with white

22.8 x 33.9cm (9 x 13 3/8in)

Private collection

Estimated for £800 - £1,200 in April 2020

Scarbrough belongs to that group of Edwardian artists who worked until the 1930’s and include such well known marine artists as Charles Napier Hemy, William Lionel Wyllie and Charles Dixon. Apart from Hemy, who was in a class of his own, Scarbrough was probably the most interesting of the group, because his work was painted in an impressionistic style that owed nothing to the traditional style of marine painting, but was influenced by the work of Albert Marquet or Camille Pissarro’s “The Docks of Rouen, Morning”. More on Frank Scarbrough

Frederick (Frank) William, Scarbrough (British, 1863-1945)

At Woolwich, London

Watercolour heightened with white

26 x 17cm (10 1/4 x 6 11/16in)

Private collection

Sold for £2,040 in April 2020

Woolwich is a district in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

The district's location on the River Thames led to its status as an important naval, military and industrial area; a role that was maintained throughout the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and most of the 20th century. After several decades of economic hardship and social deprivation, the area is now subject to several large-scale urban renewal projects. More on Woolwich

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01 Marine Art, AFÉLIX ZIEM'S L'Escaut à Anvers, With Footnotes #316

FÉLIX ZIEM (FRENCH, 1821-1911)

L'Escaut à Anvers

Watercolor on paper

81⁄4 x 121⁄2 in. (21 x 31.8 cm.)

Private collection

Sold for USD 6,300 in Apr 2022

L'Escaut à Anvers is a 350-kilometre-long river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea.

Félix Ziem (February 26, 1821 – November 10, 1911) was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School. He was born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte-d'Or département of the Burgundy région of France. His mother was a native of Burgundy who had married an immigrant. Originally, Ziem planned to be an architect and studied at the School of Architecture in Dijon, and for a time he worked as an architect. In 1839 he moved to Marseilles, where he received some informal instruction in painting from Adolphe Monticelli. Painting developed from a hobby into a career following a visit in 1841 to Italy, where he fell in love with the city of Venice, a place that would become the source for many of his works, and to which he returned annually until 1892. Apart from Venetian scenes, he also painted many still lifes, portraits, and landscapes from a variety of places including Constantinople, Martigues, Cagnes-sur-Mer and his native Burgundy. More on Félix Ziem

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