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
Thomas Bush Hardy
Blake and Von Tromp in the Straits of Dover, May 1652 , 1873
Watercolour
72 x 125cm; 28¼ x 49in
Private collection
The author Alex Hurst commented, the ship's hull paint suggests she is a little earlier than 1800, however she has double dolphin strikers which were not introduced into the British Navy until around 1900. Somerscales depicts the ship hove to with her main yards 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. More on this painting
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
Blake and Von Tromp in the Straits of Dover, May 1652 , 1873
Watercolour
72 x 125cm; 28¼ x 49in
Private collection
Relations with England became increasingly strained after the Navigation Act (1651), which was passed to restrict Dutch trade with British possessions, while much resentment was also caused by the English claim to sovereignty over the seas.
A skirmish with Adm. Robert Blake off Dover in May 1652 resulted in the First Anglo-Dutch War, which marked a crisis in the rivalry between England and the Netherlands as carriers of world trade. Although Von Tromp was unable to stir the English admirals to action later in the year—for which he was censured by the Dutch authorities, who even kept him from his command for some months—he defeated Blake off Dungeness in December. But the English fleet was superior to the Dutch; Tromp was unable to continue his successes and lost the three-day battle between Portland and Calais (March 1653), as well as the Battle of Gabbard in June. Tromp was killed in the battle off Terheijde near Scheveningen. More on this battle
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
'We were the first that ever did burst into that silent sea', c. 1917/18'
Watercolour with scratching out
36.5 x 53.3cm (14 3/8 x 21in).
Private collection
The title and subject of this work seem to have been inspired by an excerpt from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. More on this painting
Albert Goodwin RWS (1845–1932) was a notable English landscape painter specialising in watercolours. His work shows the influences of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Goodwin was born in Maidstone in Kent. After leaving school he became an apprentice draper. His exceptional artistic ability was recognised at an early age and he went on to study with the Pre-Raphaelite artists Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown.
At the age of 15 his first painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy. He became an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) in 1876. He was championed by famed art critic John Ruskin who took him on a tour of Europe, where he made many sketches from nature which were later turned into watercolours.
Goodwin was a prolific artist, producing over 800 works and continuing to paint well into his eighties. His wide variety of landscape subjects reflected his love of travel and show the influence of Turner. In later works he developed experimental techniques such as using ink over water color to achieve atmospheric lighting effects. His works are also an important record of social history. More on Albert Goodwin
Albert Goodwin RWS (1845–1932) was a notable English landscape painter specialising in watercolours. His work shows the influences of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Goodwin was born in Maidstone in Kent. After leaving school he became an apprentice draper. His exceptional artistic ability was recognised at an early age and he went on to study with the Pre-Raphaelite artists Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown.
At the age of 15 his first painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy. He became an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) in 1876. He was championed by famed art critic John Ruskin who took him on a tour of Europe, where he made many sketches from nature which were later turned into watercolours.
Goodwin was a prolific artist, producing over 800 works and continuing to paint well into his eighties. His wide variety of landscape subjects reflected his love of travel and show the influence of Turner. In later works he developed experimental techniques such as using ink over water color to achieve atmospheric lighting effects. His works are also an important record of social history. More on Albert Goodwin
A. Felgate, (British 19th Century)
The U.S. Frigate Sabine
Watercolor on paper
10-1/4 x 14 in (26 x 35.5 cm)
Private collection
The first USS Sabine was a sailing frigate built by the United States Navy in 1855. The ship was among the first ships to see action in the American Civil War. In 1862, a large portion of the USS Monitor crew were volunteers from the Sabine.
She was built at the New York Navy Yard. Her keel was laid in 1822, but she was not launched until 3 February 1855. During this period, she underwent various alterations, the most extensive being a lengthening of her hull by twenty feet. Built essentially from Brandywine plans, she was commissioned on 23 August 1858, Capt. Henry A. Adams in command. More on the USS Sabine
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.
The town has two distinct areas: the modern town on the mainland and the medieval Ville Close, a walled town on a long island in the centre of the harbour. Historically, the old town was a centre of shipbuilding. The Ville Close is connected to the town by a bridge and at the other end a ferry to the village of Lanriec on the other side of the harbour. 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
Edward Seago, R.W.S., 1910-1974
THAMES BARGES ON THE ORWELL
Oil on board
36 by 51cm., 14 by 20in.
Private collection
The River Orwell flows through the county of Suffolk in England. Its source river, above the tidal limit at Stoke Bridge, is known as the River Gipping. It broadens into an estuary at Ipswich where the Ipswich dock has operated since the 7th century and then flows into the North Sea at Felixstowe after joining with the River Stour at Shotley. The large Orwell Bridge carries the A14 trunk road over the estuary to the south of Ipswich. More on The River Orwell
Edward Brian Seago, 1910–1974; was
a British painter, writer, and illustrator, born in Norwich. He was
confined to bed for much of his childhood, had little formal education, and was
mainly self-taught as an artist. From 1928 to 1933 he travelled with circuses
in Britain and abroad, and he wrote three illustrated books on the circus in
the 1930s. However, he became best known for landscapes and portraits.
During the Second World War he served as a
camouflage officer and after being invalided from the army in 1944 he was
invited by Field Marshal Alexander to paint scenes of the Italian campaign in
1945. In 1953 he was appointed an official Coronation artist and in 1956–7 he
accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on a world tour. More Seago
Frank Duveneck, 1848 - 1919
The Wharf at Gloucester Harbor , 1917
oil on canvas
28" x 36"
Private collection
Some of the first settlers in Gloucester used the Seven Seas Wharf for the processing of fish to be shipped to England, and South America in exchange for salt, clothing and other essentials of daily life. Gloucester men had exchanged salt fish for molasses in the West Indies. They then made rum on this wharf from the molasses. Much of the rum was then shipped to England for finished manufactured goods that the early colonists needed. Some of the supporting beams of this wharf were once main masts of old fishing schooners and clipper ships joined together by treenails (oaken pegs) ten inches long. More on The Wharf at Gloucester Harbor
Frank Duveneck, (born October 9, 1848, Covington,
Kentucky, U.S.—died January 3, 1919, Cincinnati, Ohio), American
painter, sculptor, and art teacher who helped awaken American interest in
European naturalism. At age 21 Duveneck studied in Germany with Wilhelm Dietz
at the Munich Academy and was greatly influenced by the works of Frans Hals,
Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. His success was immediate, and in 1871 he won
a medal from the Bavarian Royal Academy. Fellow artists and critics responded
to his bold, vital brushstrokes and strong contrasts of light and dark. Two
years later, he arranged his first solo exhibition in Munich, further
establishing his international reputation.
After returning to the United States in 1873 and settling
in Cincinnati, Ohio, Duveneck burst upon the American scene with an exhibition
in Boston in 1875. His work was characterized by dark, earthy colours and
broad, painterly brushwork clearly reminiscent of the European masters Duveneck
admired. Both the writer Henry James and the artist William Morris Hunt
championed Duveneck’s art. Although emboldened by this response, Duveneck
returned to Munich and sent works to exhibitions in the United States. More Frank Duveneck
GEZA/GORDON MARICH ( Canadian 1913 - 1982 )
Fishing Hut on Rocky Coast
Oil on canvas
16" x 20" (40.64 x 50.8 cm.)
Private collection
Oil on canvas
16" x 20" (40.64 x 50.8 cm.)
Private collection
Gordon Geza Marich was born in Hungary in 1913. He studied art in Budapest and emigrated to Canada in 1957. It is generally accepted that his death occurred in 1975, although some conflicting reports indicate that he died in 1985. Widely collected, Marich painted many different subjects, including the city center of Montreal, Quebec. Its tables are displayed in the National Museum of Art in Budapest galleries in Ottawa and Toronto, and in private collections around the world. His work evolved towards abstraction, including the extensive use of a palette knife. More on Gordon Geza Marich
Bernardus Johannes Blommers, (Dutch, 1845-1914)
Bringing in the catch
Watercolour and bodycolour
35.3 x 53.0cm (13 7/8 x 20 7/8in)
Private collection
Bernardus Johannes (Bernard) Blommers (30 January 1845 in The Hague – 12 December 1914 in The Hague) was a Dutch etcher and painter of the Hague School.
He learned lithography early in his career, and then studied at the Hague Akademie under Johan Philip Koelman until 1868. His early paintings were mostly genre works depicting fishermen and their wives, heavily influenced by Jozef Israëls. The later works (from about 1890) are more loosely painted, although maritime and genre scenes remained the primary subject matter. His work was critically successful during his lifetime, being sought after by English, Scottish and American collectors. Blommers was also active as a teacher; among his pupils was the American painter Caroline van Hook Bean, who became his daughter-in-law in 1913. More on Bernardus Johannes
Henri Matisse, 1869 - 1954
The Bay of Nice, c. 1918
Oil on canvas
71 x 90 cm
Private Collection
The Promenade des Anglais is a promenade along the Mediterranean at Nice, France. It extends from the airport on the west to the Quai des États-Unis on the east, a distance of approximately 7 km.
Starting in the second half of the 18th century, the English aristocracy took to spending the winter in Nice, enjoying the panorama along the coast. In 1820, when a particularly harsh winter up north brought an influx of beggars to Nice, some of the English proposed a useful project for them: the construction of a walkway along the sea.
The city of Nice, intrigued by the prospect of a pleasant promenade, greatly increased the scope of the work. The Promenade was first called the Camin deis Anglés. After the annexation of Nice by France in 1860 it was rechristened La Promenade des Anglais. More on Nice
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Along with Picasso, Matisse helped to define and influence radical contemporary art in the 20th century. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve, by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. More on Henri Matisse
Sara Roberts, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Into The Void, c. 2017
Oil on Canvas.
33.9 H x 25.2 W x 1 in
Sara Roberts graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Printmedia in 2011 and recently finished her Masters of Fine Arts in Painting at Sydney College of the Arts. She is an Australian visual artist who works primarily in oil paint. Often meditating on specific locations, her work reflects memories of places that she has been, interwoven with more idyllic and imagined elements of the environment. Born in Sydney and having grown up in Mexico, France, Sweden and Poland, the feeling of being foreign in an unfamiliar land was an influential one. Her oil paintings come to life through a constant process of accumulation and reduction: thoughtful yet fluid in her approach, she may patiently revisit the same painting again and again, adding and removing layers over time. More on Sara Roberts
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