Montague Dawson, (1890–1973)
The British Clipper Ship Thermopylae
Watercolor and gouache on paper
16 1/4 x 26 in.
Private Collection
Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. In 1872, Thermopylae raced the clipper Cutty Sark from Shanghai back to London. Thermopylae won by seven days after Cutty Sark lost her rudder. From 1882 onward, Thermopylae took part in the Australian wool trade; however, on this route Cutty Sark proved faster.
In 1897 she was sold to Portugal for use as a naval training ship and renamed Pedro Nunes. On 13 October 1907, the Portuguese Navy towed her down the Tagus river using two warships, and before Amelia de Orleans, Queen of Portugal, she was torpedoed with full naval honours off Cascais. More on Thermopylae
Montague Dawson, (1890–1973)
The British Clipper Ship Thermopylae
Detail
Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was a British
painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict
sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Montague was the son of a keen yachtsman and the grandson of the marine painter
Henry Dawson (1811–1878), born
in Chiswick, London. Much of his childhood was spent on Southampton Water where
he was able to indulge his interest in the study of ships. For a brief period
around 1910 Dawson worked for a commercial art studio in Bedford Row, London,
but with the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Royal Navy. Whilst
serving with the Navy in Falmouth he met Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917), who considerably influenced his
work. In 1924 Dawson was the official artist for an Expedition to the South
Seas by the steam yacht St.George. During the expedition he provided
illustrated reports to the Graphic magazine.
After the
War, Dawson established himself as a professional marine artist, concentrating
on historical subjects and portraits of deep-water sailing ships. During the
Second World War, he was employed as a war artist. Dawson exhibited regularly
at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, of which he became a member, from 1946
to 1964, and occasionally at the Royal Academy between 1917 and 1936. By the
1930s he was considered one of the greatest living marine artists, whose
patrons included two American Presidents, Dwight D Eisenhower and Lyndon B
Johnson, as well as the British Royal Family. Also in the 1930s, he moved to
Milford-Upon-Sea in Hampshire, living there for many years. Dawson is noted for
the strict accuracy in the nautical detail of his paintings which often sell
for six figures.
The work of Montague Dawson is represented in
the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. More on
Montague Dawson
Herbert James Draper, 1863-1920
THE WRATH OF THE SEA GOD
Oil on canvas
38.5 by 101.5cm., 23 by 40in.
Private Collection
The present picture illustrates an episode from Ovid's Odyssey as the ship commanded by Odysseus and his men on their return to Ithaca from the Trojan wars, incurs the anger of Poseidon following Odysseus' slaying of Poseidon's son, the cyclops Polyphemus. The men struggle against the foaming waters, grappling with the steering oar at the stern and attempting to lower the sails to prevent the ship from capsizing.
The Wrath of the Sea God was the second of a series of classical nautical paintings painted by Draper around the turn of the century. In 1894 he had achieved his first major public success with a painting entitled The Sea Maiden (below), a dramatic scene set on board a fishing-boat as a sea-nymph is hauled aboard in the nets. This picture established Draper's reputation as a painter of narratives beside the sea, and more specifically on board ships.
Herbert James Draper, (1863–1920)
The Sea Maiden, c. 1894
Oil on canvas
120 x 217.5 cm. (47.2 x 85.6 in.)
Formerly in the collection of the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truror,
Herbert James Draper (1863 – 1920) was an English Classicist painter whose career began
in the Victorian era and extended through the first two decades of the 20th
century. Born in London, the son of a jeweller, he was educated at Bruce Castle
School in Tottenham and then went on to study art at the Royal Academy. He
undertook several educational trips to Rome and Paris between 1888 and 1892,
having won the Royal Academy Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship in 1889. In
the 1890s, he worked as an illustrator, eventually settling in London. He died
of arteriosclerosis at the age of 56, in his home on Abbey Road. More on Herbert James Draper
Terrick Williams, 1860-1936
THE QUAYSIDE, CONCARNEAU
Oil on canvas
35.5 by 61cm., 14 by 24in.
Private Collection
Concarneau (meaning Bay of Cornwall) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. It is a walled town on a long island in the center of the harbour. Historically, the town was a centre of shipbuilding and is France’s third most important fishing port. More on Concarneau
John Terrick Williams RA (20 July 1860 – 20 July 1936). Williams was born in Liverpool, England, the son of a businessman. He was educated at Kings College School, London. Determination to become an artist he move to Europe and studied under Charles Verlat in Antwerp and later at the Académie Julian and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury in Paris.
Williams focussed on landscape and marine subjects and painted in oil, pastel and watercolour. He travelled extensively and his impressionistic, luminous paintings sought the transient effects of light and reflections in Venice, St. Tropez, Paris, Brittany and St. Ives.
He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1904. His work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1891. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) on 18 November 1924, a Royal Academician (R.A.) on 14 February 1933, and a Senior R.A. on 1 January 1936. In 1933 he was also elected President of the RI. He died on his birthday in 1936 aged 76. After his death a memorial exhibition was held at the Fine Art Society in 1937. More on John Terrick Williams
Thomas Somerscales, 1842-1927
A SHIP OF THE LINE 100 YEARS AGO, c. 1900
Oil on canvas
70 by 106cm., 27½ by 42in.
Private Collection
Somerscales depicts the ship hove to with her mainyards backed as whalers approach. In the distance, another ship can be seen with her 'stun'-sails' - the additional sails seen extended outside the normal sail plan - set. These were almost obsolete by the twentieth century.
Thomas Jacques Somerscales (born in Kingston upon Hull on 29 October 1842; died 27 June 1927) was an English marine painter. He is also considered a Chilean painter as he began his career there and many of his landscapes evoke the region.
His father was a shipmaster, who sketched, and his uncle was an amateur painter. However he had no formal training as an artist and originally became a teacher in the Royal Navy. He also traveled around the Pacific and while teaching in Valparaíso he started working as a professional painter. By 1893 he was still referred to as a "little known artist" but had gained some praise. More on Thomas Jacques Somerscales
Thomas Bush Hardy, (1842-1897)
No. 1 Greenwich Pier, Stormy Weather
Oil on canvas
9.5 x 20in.
Private Collection
Greenwich Pier is a pier on the River Thames in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London. It was was originally built in the 1880s as a coaling jetty for the former Greenwich gasworks before this closed in the late 1980s. More on Greenwich Pier
Thomas Bush Hardy (1842, Sheffield
– 1897, Maida Vale, London) was a British marine painter and
watercolourist. As a young man he travelled in the Netherlands and Italy. In
1884 Hardy was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He
exhibited with the Society and also at the Royal Academy.
His paintings feature coastal scenes in England and the
Netherlands, the French Channel ports and the Venetian Lagoon.
Hardy had nine children. His son Dudley Hardy was a
painter, illustrator and poster designer. His daughter Dorothy received an MBE
after working as a nurse in the First World War. He died on 15 December 1897 in
Maida Vale, London. More on Thomas Bush
Hardy
Henry Scott Tuke, R.A., R.W.S., 1858-1929
MENDING THE SAILS , c. 1889
Oil on canvas
41 by 30.5cm., 16 by 12in.
Private Collection
Thomas Bush Hardy (1842-1897)
Shipwrecked
Oil on canvas
91x60 cm
Private Collection
Henry Scott Tuke RA RWS (12 June 1858 – 13
March 1929), was an
English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most
notable work was in the Impressionist style.
He was
born into a Quaker family in Lawrence Street in York. In 1859 the family moved
to Falmouth, where where his father, a physician, established a practice.
Tuke's sister and biographer, Maria Tuke Sainsbury (1861–1947).
In 1875,
Tuke enrolled in the Slade School of Art under Alphonse Legros and Sir Edward
Poynter. Initially his father paid for his tuition but in 1877 Tuke won a
scholarship, which allowed him to continue his training at the Slade and in
Italy in 1880. From 1881 to 1883 he was in Paris where he met Jules
Bastien-Lepage, who encouraged him to paint en plein air. While studying in
France, Tuke decided to move to Newlyn Cornwall where many of his Slade and
Parisian friends had already formed the Newlyn School of painters. He received
several lucrative commissions there, after exhibiting his work at the Royal
Academy of Art in London.
In 1885, Tuke returned to Falmouth where many of
his major works were produced. Tuke became an established artist and was
elected to full membership of the Royal Academy in 1914. Tuke suffered a heart
attack in 1928 and died in March, 1929. Today he is remembered mainly for his
oil paintings of young men, but in addition to his achievements as a figurative
painter, he was an established maritime artist and produced as many portraits
of sailing ships as he did human figures. Tuke was a prolific artist—over 1,300
works are listed and more are still being discovered. More Henry
Scott Tuke
Shipwrecked
Oil on canvas
91x60 cm
Private Collection
Thomas Bush Hardy (1842-1897), see above
Thomas Bush Hardy, (1842-1897)
Shipwrecked
Detail
Richard Strong, (American, Late 20th Century)
Unchartered Voyage
Oil on board
50 x 74 inches (127 x 188.0 cm)
Private Collection
Viviane Guy, b. 1952, France
Un monde de tranquillité/ A world of tranquility
Oil on camvas
31 H x 31 W x 1 in
Viviane Guy. Born in 1952 in Bruxelles, Belgium, self-taught, Viviane Guy likes places filled with beauty. Breathing and seducing spaces. Her painter’s vision has brought her through the world particularly in Canada, French Polynesia, China and the U.S.A. where she reinforced her technique working hand to hand with the American painter Jackson Collins. Viviane Guy defines the Art of painting as the continuity of her childhood and considers that her staging have no other function than to tame the viewer in order for them to decode their senses. “In front of nature, a painter chooses how to look at it. I work following the impressions reality leaves in me, they inspire me while preserving my freedom. The subject can be guessed, but the ambiance is abstraction.” Viviane Guy. More on Vivian Guy
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