Montague Dawson, 1890 - 1973
Ships That Pass
oil on canvas
28.25 x 42 in
Private collection
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
DUTCH FISHING BOATS IN CHOPPY COASTAL WATERS
Oil on canvas
54 x 79cm
Private collection
Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S.,
F.S.A., F.G.S. (27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880) was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener. Cooke was
born in Pentonville, London. He was raised in the company of artists. He was a
precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an
equal preference for marine subjects and published his "Shipping and
Craft" – a series of
accomplished engravings – when
he was 18, in 1829. Cooke began painting in oils in 1833, and first exhibited
at the Royal Academy and British Institution in 1835, by which time his style
was essentially formed.
He went on to travel and paint with great
industry at home and abroad, indulging his love of the 17th-century Dutch
marine artists with a visit to the Netherlands in 1837. He returned regularly
over the next 23 years, studying the effects of the coastal landscape and
light, as well as the works of the country's Old Masters, resulting in highly
successful paintings. He went on to travel in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa
and, above all, to Venice. In 1858, he was elected into the National Academy of
Design as an Honorary Academician. . More
Edward William Cooke
THE ENGLISH ROYAL YACHT MARY ABOUT TO FIRE A SALUTEc. 1660
Oil on canvas
126.5 x 178 cm.; 49 3/4 x 70 in.
Private collection
King Charles II’s Royal Yacht Mary, the subject of this picture, occupies the centre of the composition, about to fire a salute. The Master can be seen ringing a bell to give the order, and the gunner (wearing a fisherman’s hat) can be seen with his lighted spill held aloft. The yacht is moored by its starboard anchor, while a sailor holds the stock of the port anchor, which is unshipped, perhaps as he prepares to stow it. The foresail is up and the mainsail is gathered, ready to be released, and it looks as if the Mary is making ready to depart. Her salute is presumably in answer to one fired by the unidentified Dutch ship beyond and to the left. Further Dutch ships are to be seen in the distance to the centre, including one flying the flag of the Fore Squadron, and another the flag and pennant of an Admiral of the Main. Nearer, to the right, is the Amsterdam ship Hollandia, her stern towards the viewer, smoke visible above her deck suggesting that she to her stern towards the viewer, smoke visible above her deck suggesting that she too has just fired a salute. Beyond the Hollandia is an unidentified ship with a haloed saint on her tafferel.
Van de Velde depicted the Mary in several other paintings, though never so prominently as here. More on this painting
Willem van de Velde the Younger (bapt. 18
December 1633; died 6 April 1707) was a Dutch marine painter. A son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, also a painter of
sea-pieces, he was instructed by his father, and afterwards by Simon de
Vlieger, a marine painter of repute at the time, and had achieved great
celebrity by his art before he came to London. By 1673 he had moved to England,
where he was engaged by Charles II, at a salary of £100, to aid his father in
"taking and making draughts of sea-fights", his part of the work
being to reproduce in color the drawings of the elder Van de Velde. He was also
patronized by the Duke of York and by various members of the nobility. More on Willem
van de Velde the Younger
THE ENGLISH ROYAL YACHT MARY ABOUT TO FIRE A SALUTE, c. 1660
Detail
Willem van de Velde the Younger (bapt. 18
December 1633; died 6 April 1707) was a Dutch marine painter. A son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, also a painter of
sea-pieces, he was instructed by his father, and afterwards by Simon de
Vlieger, a marine painter of repute at the time, and had achieved great
celebrity by his art before he came to London. By 1673 he had moved to England,
where he was engaged by Charles II, at a salary of £100, to aid his father in
"taking and making draughts of sea-fights", his part of the work
being to reproduce in color the drawings of the elder Van de Velde. He was also
patronized by the Duke of York and by various members of the nobility. More on Willem
van de Velde the Younger
DUTCH FISHING BOATS IN CHOPPY COASTAL WATERS
Detail
Edward William Cooke, see above
HAYLEY LEVER, 1876 - 1958
Returning Fisherman, The Jetties, Manasquan, NJ, c. 1938
Oil on canvas
30 by 36 inches (76.2 by 91.4 cm)
Private collection
The Manasquan Inlet is an inlet that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Manasquan River, in the state of New Jersey. Passage to Bay Head Harbor and the Barnegat Bay is possible via the Point Pleasant Canal.
The Manasquan inlet historically had always been shallow, which made it difficult for large boats to navigate. When the Point Pleasant Canal was dug in 1926, the Manasquan river's water rapidly flowed through the man-made opening disrupting the natural flow of the river, this caused the inlet to completely close with sand for several years. In 1930 work begun to reopen the inlet. The Army Corps of Engineers put up temporary piers and began building jetties. The jetties were constructed with rock excavation from the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan. The inlet was officially reopened on August 29, 1931. More on The Manasquan Inlet
Richard Hayley Lever (28 September 1875 – 6
December 1958) was an
Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher. He excelled in
painting classes at Prince Alfred College under James Ashton and on leaving
school continued to study under Ashton at his Norwood art school. He was a
charter member of the Adelaide Easel Club in 1892.
Lever left
to England in 1899 to further his career in painting. He moved to St. Ives, a
fishing port and artistic colony on the Cornish coast. In St. Ives, Lever
shared a studio with Frederick Waugh, and studied painting techniques under the
Impressionists Olsson and Algernon Talmage. Lever also painted in the French
port villages of Douarnenez and Concarneau, Brittany, directly across the
English Channel from St. Ives.
Lever
arrived in New York City in 1912 and painted views of the Hudson River, Times
Square and Central Park. Upon discovering the American east coast, he painted
in Gloucester, MA for several summers and at Marblehead, MA. From 1919 to 1931,
Lever taught art classes at the Art Students League of New York where he
maintained a Gloucester studio and often traveled to paint on Nantucket and
Martha's Vineyard. In 1924, Lever was commissioned to paint a portrait of the
presidential yacht, Mayflower, which was subsequently presented to President
Calvin Coolidge in the Cabinet Room of the White House.
In later life, Lever was inflicted with
arthritis in his right hand, which prevented him from further travel and forced
him to concentrate on still-life subjects instead. As his arthritis advanced,
he taught himself to paint with his left hand. However, following the death of
his wife Aida in 1949, Lever was confined to his home, where he continued to
paint from 1953 until his death. More on Richard Hayley Lever
Irma Stern (1894 - 1966)
Madeira Scene, 1931
Gouache
28.5 x 22 cm
Private collection
Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal. Its total population was estimated in 2011 at 267,785. The capital of Madeira is Funchal, located on the main island's south coast.
Madeira was claimed by Portuguese sailors in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator in 1419 and settled after 1420. The archipelago is considered to be the first territorial discovery of the exploratory period of the Portuguese Age of Discovery, which extended from 1415 to 1542. More on Madeira
Irma Stern (1894, Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal – 23 August 1966, Cape Town, South Africa) was born in Schweizer-Reneke, a small town in the Transvaal. Her father was interned in a concentration camp by the British during the South African War because of his pro-Boer leanings. Irma and her younger brother, Rudi, were thus taken to Cape Town by their mother. After the war, the family returned to Germany and constant travel. This travel would influence Irma's work.
Irma Stern, (1894 - 1966)
Boats, Madeira, c. 1951
Gouache and charcoal on paper
37 x 27.5 cm
Private collection
In 1913 Stern studied art in Germany at the Weimar Academy. She was associated with the German Expressionist painters of this period. She held her first exhibition in Berlin in 1919. In 1920 Stern returned to Cape Town with her family where she was first derided and dismissed as an artist before becoming an established artist by the 1940s.
In 1926 she married Dr Johannes Prinz, her former tutor, who subsequently became professor of German at the University of Cape Town. They were divorced in 1934.
Irma Stern travelled extensively in Europe and explored Southern Africa, Zanzibar and the Congo region. These trips provided a wide range of subject matter for her paintings and gave her opportunities to acquire and assemble a collection of artifacts. In 1931 she visited Madeira and Dakar, Senegal, in 1937 and 1938. These expeditions resulted in a wealth of artistic creativity and energy as well as the publication of two illustrated journals; Congo published in 1943 and Zanzibar in 1948.
The Irma Stern Museum was established in 1971 and is the house the artist lived in for almost four decades. She moved into The Firs in Rondebosch in 1927 and lived there until her death. Several of the rooms are furnished as she arranged them while upstairs there is a commercial gallery used by contemporary South African artists. More on Irma Stern
Liza Yashyna, Russia
«Evening»
Oil on canvas
35.4 H x 23.6 W x 0.8 in
Elizabeth Yashyna was born on 2-nd of August 1987 in Simferopol (Ukraine) in artists' family. In 2007 graduated from Crimean College of Art of N.S. Samokish. In 2013 graduated from Kiev National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture (Faculty of Sacred and Monumental Art; studio of N.A. Storozhenko). Exhibition activity began in 2003 - held more than 30 personal and group exhibitions. Member of National Union of Artists of Ukraine and National Union of Artists of Russia. Works are presented in private collections in France, Italy, USA, Hungary, Montenegro, Australia, Russia, Ukraine and others. Since 2008 - member of the Creative Union of Professional Artists of Russia. Since 2013 - Member of the Creative Union of Professional Artists of Ukraine. More on Elizabeth Yashyna
FRANK MYERS BOGGS, 1855 - 1926
Fish Market, Copenhagen, c. 1924
Oil on canvas
22 1/8 by 20 1/8 inches (56.1 by 51.1 cm)
Private collection
Copenhagen, originally a Viking fishing village founded in the 10th century, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century it consolidated its position as a regional centre of power with its institutions, defences and armed forces. More on Copenhagen
Frank Myers Boggs (* 6. December 1855 in Springfield
, Ohio ; †
August 8, 1926 in Meudon , Hauts-de-Seine ) was
active, and naturalized in France . He was a painter of urban landscapes,
marine. Watercolorist , engraver , draftsman.
Mixing
tonalist and impressionist elements, Frank Myers Boggs forged a novel artistic
style at the juncture of fin-de-siècle American and European traditions. Born
in Ohio, Boggs trained at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean Léon Gerôme and
spent the majority of his life in Paris. There, he accomplished the rare feat
of gaining prominence in both the French and American art worlds. By the end of
his life, Boggs had essentially transformed himself into a French
impressionist: he became a French citizen in 1923 and earned the French Legion
of Honor three years later.
Boggs won a prize from the American Art
Association in 1884 and silver medals from the Paris Universal Exposition of
1889 and the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. His paintings are
now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, as well as the Réunion des Musées Nationaux of Paris,
Luxembourg Museum, and Museum of Nantes in France. More on Frank Myers Boggs
Anders Zorn, 1860 - 1920
Summer Entertainment/ Sommarnoje, c. 1886
Watercolor, paper
76 x 54 cm
Private Collection
Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22
August 1920) was one of Sweden's foremost
artists. He obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and
etcher. From 1875 to 1880 Zorn studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Arts in Stockholm. Members of Stockholm society approached him with commissions.
Zorn traveled extensively to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy and the
United States, becoming an international success as one of the most acclaimed
painters of his era. It was primarily his skill as a portrait painter that
gained Zorn international acclaim based principally upon his incisive ability
to depict the individual character of his model. At 29, he was made a Chevalier
de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle 1889 Paris World
Fair. More Anders
Leonard Zorn
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