Leslie Arthur Wilcox, British, 1904-1982
The USS 'United States' Engaging the HMS 'Macedonian' , c. 1977
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Private collection
The battle between these two frigates was fought near Madeira on October 25, 1812, the 'United States' being commanded by Steven Decater. After a long, bloody battle, the 'United States' captured the 'Macedonian' and escorted her to Newport, the first British warship ever brought into an American harbor. The British frigate was later recommissoned by the US Navy as the USS 'Macedonian' and remained in service until 1836. More on this painting
Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973)
The Torrens in California Waters
oil on canvas
28 × 42 in
Private collection
James E. Buttersworth, 1817 to 1894.
The Clipper Ship "Flying Cloud" off the Needles, Isle of Wight, 1859-1860.
Oil on canvas
Private collection
James Edward Buttersworth (British/American, 1817-1894)
The American clipper ship Flying Cloud, c. 1854
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 in
Private collection
James Edward Buttersworth (British/American, 1817-1894)
The clipper ship Flying Cloud coming out of a hurricane, circa 1855
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Private collection
Torrens (1875 – 1910) was a clipper ship
designed to carry passengers and cargo between London and Port Adelaide, South
Australia. She was the fastest ship to sail on that route
It is
likely that the vessel was named in honour of Colonel Robert Torrens, a
principal exponent of the economic benefits of nineteenth-century colonial
trade.
The
Torrens was aimed at the upper end of the market – accommodation was first and
second class passengers only. Apart from the crew, she carried "a surgeon,
a stewardess and a good cow"
She lost her foremast and main topmast in 1891, and while
being refitting in Pernambuco a fire broke out on board. On the evening of 11
January 1899 she struck an iceberg some 40 km south west of the Crozet Islands
and limped into Adelaide dismasted, with her bow stoved in. In 1906 the
Torrens was sold for £1,500 (she cost £27,257 to build) to an Italian shipping
line, but after running her ashore, she was sent to the shipbreakers. They were
however so taken by her aesthetic appearance that they refused to break her up,
and repaired her instead. But it was not long before she again ran aground. She
was finally broken up at Genoa in 1910. More on
the Torrens
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
The Clipper Ship "Flying Cloud" off the Needles, Isle of Wight, 1859-1860.
Oil on canvas
Private collection
The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise about 30m out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, close to Alum Bay, and part of Totland, the westernmost Civil Parish of the Isle of Wight. The Needles Lighthouse stands at the outer, western end of the formation. Built in 1859, it has been automated since 1994.
The formation takes its name from a fourth needle-shaped pillar called Lot's Wife, that collapsed in a storm in 1764. The remaining rocks are not at all needle-like, but the name has stuck. More on The Needles
The Flying Cloud of 1851 was the most famous of the extreme clippers built by Donald McKay in East Boston, Massachusetts. The Flying Cloud was purchased at launching by Grinnell, Minturn & Co., of New York, for $90,000, which represented a huge profit for Train & Co. Within six weeks she sailed from New York and made San Francisco 'round Cape Horn in 89 days, 21 hours under the command of Captain Josiah Perkins Creesy. In the early days of the California Gold Rush, it took more than 200 days for a ship to travel from New York to San Francisco.. On the 31st of July, during the trip, she made 374 miles in 24 hours. In 1853 she beat her own record by 13 hours, a world beating record that stood for 136 years, until 1989 when the breakthrough-designed sailboat Thursday's Child completed the passage in 80 days, 20 hours.
The American clipper ship Flying Cloud, c. 1854
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 in
Private collection
The American clipper ship Flying Cloud, Scudding in a Gale of Wind off Cape Horn
on her record-breaking voyage to San Francisco around Cape Horn in 89 days, April 20th 1854.
Apparently, Flying Cloud and her record breaking passage between New York and San Francisco was one of James E. Buttersworth's favorite clipper ship subjects. In addition to this one, and the one sold at these sale rooms last year [Bonhams, Important Maritime Paintings & Decorative Arts, January 2013, Sale 20482, Lot 113] (below), the one listed in the Grassby book, Ship, Sea & Sky, and another one listed in the Schaefer (further down) book makes four paintings, all the same size and period, circa 1854. More on this painting
Cape Horn, named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands, is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America, Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet.
For decades, Cape Horn was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried trade around the world. The waters around Cape Horn are particularly hazardous, owing to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs; these dangers have made it notorious as a sailors' graveyard.
The need for ships to round Cape Horn was greatly reduced by the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. More on Cape Horn
The clipper ship Flying Cloud coming out of a hurricane, circa 1855
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Private collection
The Flying Cloud's achievement was remarkable under any terms. But, was all the more unusual because her navigator was a woman, Eleanor Creesy. She was one of the first navigators to exploit the insights of Matthew Fontaine Maury, most notably the course recommended in his Sailing Directions. With her husband, ship captain Josiah Perkins Creesy More on Flying Cloud
James Edward Buttersworth (British/American, 1817-1894)
The Clipper "Flying Cloud" off Cape Horn, circa 1855
Oil on board
Height: 50.8 cm (20 in.), Width: 76.2 cm (30 in.)
Private collection
Cape Horn, see above
James E. Buttersworth, 1817 to 1894, see below
Raymond A. Massey
Flying Cloud Entering Hong Kong 1851
Print, Edition: 250
26 1/2" x 21"
Private collection
Victoria Harbour is a natural landform harbour situated between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon in Hong Kong. The harbour's deep, sheltered waters and strategic location on the South China Sea were instrumental in Hong Kong's establishment as a British colony and its subsequent development as a trading centre. More on Victoria Harbour
Born in Newscastle-on-Tyne, England, Raymond A. Massey is a self-taught artist who came to the United States when he was 10 and made his home in Buffalo, New York since the age of 14. A member of the Nautical Research Guild, he was elected an artist member of the American Society of Marine Artists, which was established in 1978 to encourage the preservation and appreciation of maritime history through art.
Massey’s works have appeared in numerous art shows and galleries from coast-to-coast in the United Stares, and Canada.
He is also published a number of books, and once wrote about historic Buffalo for the Buffalo Courier Express and illustrated historic Buffalo features in that newspaper. More on Raymond A. Massey
Dutch landscape with a caulking barge, c. 1857.
Louvre
Johan Barthold Jongkind (3 June 1819 – 9
February 1891) was a Dutch
painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is
regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism. Jongkind was born in the
Netherlands. Trained at the art academy in The Hague, in 1846 he moved to
Montparnasse in Paris, France where he studied under Eugène Isabey and
François-Édouard Picot. Two years later, the Paris Salon accepted his work for
its exhibition, and he received acclaim from critic Charles Baudelaire and
later on from Émile Zola. He was to experience little success, however, and he
suffered bouts of depression complicated by alcoholism.
Jongkind returned to live in Rotterdam in 1855,
and remained there until 1860. Back in Paris, in 1861 he rented a studio on the
rue de Chevreuse in Montparnasse where some of his paintings began to show
glimpses of the Impressionist style to come. In 1862 he met in Normandy, in the
famous ferme Saint-Siméon in Honfleur, with some of his artist friends, such as
Alfred Sisley, Eugène Boudin, and the young Claude Monet, to all of whom
Jongkind served as a mentor. Monet later referred to him as "...a quiet
man with such a talent that is beyond words" and credited the
"definitive education" of his own eye to Jongkind. In 1863 Jongkind
exhibited at the first Salon des Refusés. He was invited to participate in the
first exhibition of the Impressionist group in 1874, but he declined. He died
in 1891 in Saint-Égrève. More
Yachting off Torquay
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 in
Private collection
Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay. The town's economy was initially based upon fishing and agriculture, but in the early 19th century it began to develop into a fashionable seaside resort, initially frequented by members of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars while the Royal Navy anchored in the bay. Later, as the town's fame spread, it was popular with Victorian society. Renowned for its healthful climate, the town earned the nickname the English Riviera.
The writer Agatha Christie was born in the town and lived there during her early years and there is an "Agatha Christie Mile", a tour with plaques dedicated to her life and work. More on Torquay
Thomas Buttersworth, Jr. (1807-1842), was named after his father, the well known marine painter Thomas Buttersworth Senior (1766-1841), who was to have a considerable influence on his son's painting career.
There exist few details about Thomas Junior's private life. What is known is that in the late 1830's he was living with his wife Gertude in Lambeth, and in early 1838 his daughter, also Gertrude, was born.
The family had moved to Greenwich by 1841, and this is where their son, also named Thomas, was born in March of that year. Thomas Buttersworth Junior died in Greenwich on November 25, 1842 at the very early age of thirty five. More on Thomas Buttersworth, Jr.
C. HJALMAR (CAPPY) AMUNDSEN (American, Long Island, 1911-2010)
Dock scene
Oil on canvas
20''h, 26''w
Private collection
J.J. Enwright (pseudonym for Hjalmar "Cappy" Amundsen) was born Caspar Hjalmar Emerson III in New York City in 1911, and in 1946 legally changed his name to Hjalmar Amundsen in honor of his great-uncle, explorer Roald Amundsen, who located the magnetic center of the South Pole the year his great-nephew was born.
He was in his early twenties when he first began painting. Amundsen loved the sea, and had a lifelong interest in sailing and fishing. While growing up, Hjalmar and his father would drive to the East End of Long Island, and he'd go out in a fishing boat. Later he bought a small boat and went out sailing and fishing as often as he could.
As an adult, the young artist moved back to New York and spent time painting in and around Gloucester and Provincetown, Massachusetts. In his early career, he is believed to have created up to 275 paintings a year over a period of six years under the name of Enwright, and it is now believed that J.J. Enwright and Hjalmar Amundsen is one and the same artist.
In 1946 he moved to Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York. He opened a studio and lived in the same building, becoming a well-liked figure in the community. He painted waterfront images, sailing ships, fishing boats, and the New England coastline.
Cappy lived a bohemian lifestyle, making a living with his painting, but by the 1980s times had become tough, and it was through the initiative of friends and the community that his house was restored. He died in Brookhaven Memorial Hospital on January 18, 2001. More on "Cappy" Amundsen
19th Century British school - Oil painting - Upper reaches of the River Thames with a lighter to foreground and barges and masted vessels.
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London. At 215 miles (346 km), it is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary. The Thames drains the whole of Greater London. More on The River Thames
English school, dominant school of painting in England throughout the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th. Its establishment marked the rise of a national tradition that began with the emergence of native artists whose works were no longer provincial but rivaled continental art in quality and ended by exercising considerable influence on the course of European painting. More on English school
19th Century British school
Upper reaches of the River Thames, c. 1913
Oil on canvas
14ins x 18ins
19th Century British school - Oil painting - Upper reaches of the River Thames with a lighter to foreground and barges and masted vessels.
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London. At 215 miles (346 km), it is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary. The Thames drains the whole of Greater London. More on The River Thames
English school, dominant school of painting in England throughout the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th. Its establishment marked the rise of a national tradition that began with the emergence of native artists whose works were no longer provincial but rivaled continental art in quality and ended by exercising considerable influence on the course of European painting. More on English school
Tomaso De Simone (Italian, c.1805-1888)
American ship in harbor, c. 1875
For ''Lewis L. Squire'',
Gouache
18-1/2''h, 26-1/4''w. (Fine Art)
Private collection
Tomaso De Simone (c.1805-1888) was a Neapolitan port painter; and is considered to be one of the most important ship portraitists who practiced in the Italian seaport cities. The father of noted sea painter Antonio de Simone, Tomaso specialized in oils, the majority depicting warships and merchant vessels.
The architectural properties of Tomaso de Simone's paintings are exceptional. His hull shapes have fullness and flexibility, his rigging shows a wealth of detail. His portrait of the American continental navy frigate constellation was proven so accurate that it was used as a guide for restoration of the ship, still afloat today in Baltimore.
Although not as prolific as his son, the works of Tomaso de Simone are arguably more important. In recent years, their value has increased dramatically as they become more rare and sought after by important museums and private collectors world wide. More on Tomaso De Simone
Louis Papaluca (Italian, 1890-1934)
M.Y. Happy Days, N.Y.Y.C. In Memory of First Voyage 1928
Watercolor
16ins x 27.5ins
Private collection
"M.Y. Happy Days, N.Y.Y.C. In Memory of First Voyage 1928"" - is a study of The New York Yacht Clubs steam yacht Happy Days in the Bay of Naples with Vesuvius to background.
Luigi Papaluca was the son of prolific marine artist Luca Papaluca (1890-1934), with whom his work is often confused. Both father and son were from Naples, Italy, and painted portraits of both historic and contemporary ships, but the father generally worked in gouache, while Luigi painted in oils. Luigi apparently emigrated to the U.S., producing work up until at least the 1960s. More on Luigi Papaluca
Charles Rosner (Italian, 1890-1934)
Beryl R.Y.S.
Gouache
23 x 15 in.
Private collection
Charles Rosner (American, Long Island, 1894-1975)
Clipper Ship Golden Eagle
Oil on canvas
24''h, 30''w.
Private collection
The U.S. Golden Eagle was an extreme clipper, built at Medford, Massachusetts, and launched on November 9, 1852. She weighed 1121 tons, had a length of 192 feet, a beam of 36 feet, a 22-foot depth of hold, a gilded eagle on the wing figurehead.
She made a total of eight voyages from the East Coast around the Horn to San Francisco, the first out of Boston, the others out of New York. On the homeward leg of the last of these voyages, she sailed from San Francisco for Howland`s Island, where she loaded a cargo of guano, and from which she sailed about November 20, 1862, bound for Cork, for orders. On February 21, 1863 she was attacked and burned by the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. Her owners, E. M. Robinson, of New Bedford, and John A. McGaw, of New York, claimed, and were allowed, insurance in the amount of $56,000 for the vessel, $30,000 for freight, and $27,522 for cargo. More on the Golden Eagle
Charles Rosner (German-American, 1894-1975) developed a fascination for sailing vessels while a child on holiday in various German seaports. He also served aboard them, accumulating five Cape Horn passages during his ocean career. After WW I he emigrated to Canada and thence to America, where his affinity for the sea propelled him into a commitment as a full-time marine painter of historic sailing vessels and other sea-faring subjects. More on Charles Rosner
Joaquin Sorolla (Soroia), 1863 - 1923
Walking along the seashore, c. 1911
Oil on Canvas
Joaquin Sorolei House Museum, Madrid
In the painting Sorolla depicted his wife Clotilde and eldest daughter Maria. "Walking along the seashore". Soria worked on the canvas in Valencia in 1909. He has just returned to Spain from America, where his personal exhibitions in New York, Buffalo and Boston were held with great success and where he created about 20 portraits, Including the then US President Taft .
The women are graceful, dressed in elegant white dresses and fashionable shoes. The images are completed by beige hats, decorated with flowers, and a white umbrella, which is held by the older woman (Clotilde). More on this painting
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27
February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a
Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and
monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are
characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under
the sunlight of his native land. More
on Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Bord de l'eau à Dieppe
Acrylic on Board
8.5"x6.5"
Private collection
Dieppe is a coastal community in the Arrondissement of Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.
A port on the English Channel, at the mouth of the Arques river. Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi. More on Dieppe
Fabienne Delacroix is the youngest child of the master naïf painter Michel Delacroix. She began to paint at the age of ten, working along side her father in his studio. Her talent was evident almost immediately. At twelve years old, her paintings were exhibited in a gallery in Carmel, California where the work completely sold out. In 2004, Fabienne began exhibiting on her own, and while her work can be linked stylistically to her father’s, she is very much an artist in her own right. She has a mastery of light and color that is similar to that of French Impressionists. Until recently, Fabienne was known mainly for her seascapes and pastoral landscapes. Fabienne continues to paint the French countryside, seaside and sometimes even Boston with her signature flair. She currently lives and works in Paris, France. More on Fabienne Delacroix
Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness.[4] Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. More on Naïve art
Fabienne Delacroix
la jetée de Trouville
Acrylic on Board
10.5"x13.75"
Trouville-sur-Mer, commonly referred to as Trouville, is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Trouville-sur-Mer borders Deauville. This village of fishermen is a popular tourist attraction in Normandy.
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