Christophe J Guise, (American, 20th C)
Whaling ships
Acrylic on board
61" x 19"
Private collection
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized ship, designed for whaling, the catching or processing of whales. The sail or steam-driven whaleship of the 16th to early 20th century and the floating factory. There have also been vessels which combined the two activities, such as the bottlenose whalers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Whaleships had two or more whaleboats, open rowing boats used in the capture of whales. Whaleboats brought the captured whales to the whaleships to be flensed or cut up. Here the blubber was rendered into oil using two or three try-pots set in a brick furnace called the tryworks.
At first, whale catchers either brought the whales they killed to a whaling station or factory ship anchored in a sheltered bay or inlet. Later, with the development of the slipway at the ship's stern, whale catchers were able to transfer their catch to factory ships operating in the open sea. More on Whaling ships
Christophe J Guise, (American, 20th C) was active/lived in United States, England. Christopher Guise is known for marine paintings.
Johannes Holst, (1880 - 1965)
Cutty Sark, c. 1944
Oil on canvas
70 x 99,5 cm
Private collection
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship.
Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of
the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of
a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to
steam propulsion.
The
opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steam ships now enjoyed a
much shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea
trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the
record time to Britain for ten years. Improvements in steam technology meant
that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to
Australia and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in
1895, and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased by
retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman in 1922, who used her as a training ship. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred
to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an
auxiliary cadet training ship. By 1954 she was transferred to permanent dry dock at
Greenwich, London on public display. More on the Cutty Sark
Johannes Holst, (October 22, 1880 in Hamburg-Altenwerder - July 5, 1965
in Hamburg). Influenced by the
profession of his father, he was a skipper, and by the closeness to
Elbe and sea, Johannes became interested in shipping at an early age.
He
completed an apprenticeship as an ornamental painter at the studio of Julius
and Hinrich Lüdders.
At first
he painted fishing boats, his later works were of sailing ships and steamers on
the high seas. Stormy weather at sea are characteristical for his paintings.
Holst created works of very high quality in a realistic manner of painting. The
ships painted by him show every detail. The water is also depicted very
realistically.
Holst was a very active artist and was tasked by many
shipowners to paint portraits of their ships because of his high quality works.
Portraits of sailing ships, for the shipping company F. Laeisz in Hamburg et
al., form the main part of his complete works that consists of about 1000
paintings. The paintings of Holst are especially valued in northern Germany. More
on Johannes Holst
Frans Hens, (Belgian 1856-1928)
Harbor scene with steamship
Oil on canvas
23-1/2" x 39-1/2"
Private collection
Frans Hens (1 August 1856, Antwerp – 11 May 1928, Antwerp) was a Belgian post-impressionist painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was one of the first European artists to paint in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Hens was born in Antwerp and began his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1872. He went to America in 1873, but returned the following year to continue his education at the Academy, where he became influenced by exhibitions of post-impressionist art.
In 1886, he visited the "Congo Free State". Finding himself impressed with the artistic potential of Africa, he made another trip there from 1887 to 1888. He travelled throughout the Bas-Congo, then sailed up the Congo River to what is now Équateur Province, painting landscapes along the way. Upon his return to Belgium, he held several successful exhibitions, but was later ignored at the Exposition Internationale d'Anvers (1894).
Following this snub, he joined with Eugène Broerman to produce a diorama that would be displayed in a pavilion devoted to the Congo (currently the Royal Museum for Central Africa) at the Brussels International (1897). The project was never fully realized. Ironically, many of his works are now part of the permanent collection at the museum.
He was a member of several artists' associations, including Pour l'Art and Weest U Zelve (Be Yourself) and was a founding member of De XIII and Kunst van Heden (Art of Today). From 1919 to 1923, he was a teacher at the Royal Academy. Despite the prominence given to his African paintings, most of his work was focused on the Belgian coast, with ships as a recurring theme. He died in his native city of Antwerp, aged 71. More on Frans Hens
John Cuthbert Hare, (American, 1908-1978)
Overcast scene with boats in a harbor
Oil on canvas
height 31'', width 25''
Private collection
John Cuthbert Hare, 1908-1978, was a watercolorist who painted boats, seascapes and harbor scenes. He was primarily associated with New England, especially Cape Cod, Massachusetts where he spent his summers from 1938 to 1965. However, he lived in Florida where he was a member of the St. Augustine Art Association. He first studied commercial art in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute and also studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan. He worked for Hearst newspapers corporation, and in 1933 married. In the next few years, he and his wife traveled extensively, camping and painting and exhibiting his work in galleries. In Provincetown, they also exhibited paintings that Hare had completed in Florida.The couple liked St. Augustine so well that they returned two years later, joined the Art Association, and set up a studio. Attracted to the rolling farmland, they moved to Amherst, Massachusetts. He also painted at Gloucester, and from 1967 to 1977 they lived at Yarmouthport and in 1977, moved to Palm Beach, Florida where he died three years later.His work is in the collections of the Lowe Art Museum, the Lightner Museum in Florida and the Smith College Museum of Art in Massachusetts. More on John Cuthbert Hare
Simon van Gelderen, (1814 - 1890)
Hazy Morning in a Harbour
Oil on canvas
61 x 80,5 cm
Private collection
Henri Eugene Callot, (French 1875-1956)
Marine painting with sailboat
Oil on canvas
23-1/2" x 32"
Private collection
CALLOT, Henri Eugène (Born 20 December 1875, in
La Rochelle; died 22 December 1956, in Paris), Henri Callot studied under Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury
and went on to exhibit at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1898 to 1936,
securing election to the Society and a gold medal (1920). He also exhibited at
the Société Nationale des Beaux-Art. More on Henri Eugene Callot
KOEKKOEK, HERMANUS the Elder, (Middleburg 1815 - 1882 Haarlem)
Dutch coastal view with ships at sea.
Oil on canvas.
37.5 x 59.5 cm.
Private collection
Joe Duncan Gleason, (1881 - 1959 Glendale, CA)
'Clipper Bohemia, From Sketch Made While Under Sail'
Oil on canvas laid to canvas
30' H x 40' W
Private collection
KOEKKOEK, HERMANUS the Elder, (Middleburg
1815 - 1882 Haarlem). The
Koekkoek family is one of the most celebrated artistic families in the history
of Dutch 19th century painting. Hermanus Koekkoek was born in Middelburg and
was the youngest of four sons of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (1778-1851). His
eldest brother Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862) was renowned for his
landscape painting and was arguably the most famous artist of the family.
Hermanus trained with his father, moving to Amsterdam in 1832 where he
exhibited at the Koninklijke Academy. Like his father, he mostly painted
maritime subjects and travelled extensively throughout the Netherlands for his
inspiration. He had four sons, all of whom were talented painters in their own
right, notably Willem Koekkoek (1839-1895) who exhibited regularly in Amsterdam,
The Hague and Rotterdam. More on the Koekkoek family
'Clipper Bohemia, From Sketch Made While Under Sail'
Oil on canvas laid to canvas
30' H x 40' W
Private collection
Clipper Bohemia; built on speculation by Houghton Brothers at Bath; ME in 1875. This vessel was used primarily in the California trade; making 12 Westward passages averaging 132 days and 11 Eastward passages averaging 119 days. In 1894-95 she made one voyage in the Philipine Trade. In 1897 she joined the Alaska Packers fleet and was home ported in San Francisco. Bohemia remained in the Alaskan Cannery service until 1925 when she was sold to the shipbreakers. However; she was saved from the breakers and purchased by the Los Angeles Motion Pictures Concerns company and became part of the 'Movie Fleet'. In 1926 Duncan Gleason was hired as a consultant to Cecil B. DeMille to work on the silent film 'Yankee Clipper'. Gleason sailed aboard Bohemia which was used for on deck scenes in the movie. A bow sketch study Gleaon made in 1926 became the foundation for this work which was painted nearly 25 years later. Bohemia was deliberately blown up and sunk during the making of a movie about submarine warfare in the early 1930's. More on Downeaster Bohemia
For Joe Duncan Gleason, (1881 - 1959
Glendale, CA) It was boating -
and life on the sea, in general - that steered the motley professions and
avocations of the California painter Joe Duncan Gleason. Trained at the Chicago
Art Institute and the New York Arts Students' League, he illustrated for
various magazines, including Leslie's Monthly, Ladies Home Journal, and
Forecast, from 1903 to 1914; during this period, while competing as a gymnast
in national competitions, he acquired a 36-foot yawl and sailed often on Long
Island Sound. Gleason's earliest paintings are Impressionist in style and
depict the scenic hills of his childhood Los Angeles as well as the peopled
shores of nearby Laguna Beach. A brief return to New York from 1919 to 1924
inspired Gleason to take up marine painting, model shipbuilding, and writing
about sailing: he published Windjammers, a book of etchings (1922), followed
later by Islands of California (1950). In the mid-1920s, Gleason established
his studio in the harbor town of San Pedro, California, and began consulting
for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros., providing visual guides for the ships
that appeared in such films as Yankee Clipper, Captain Blood, and The Charge of
the Light Brigade. When not painting or lecturing on historical ships, he was
sailing, both with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary during WW II and
recreationally with the California Yacht Club.More on Joe Duncan Gleason
STUDIO OF COURBET, GUSTAVE, (Ornans 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
The wave.
Oil on canvas.
38 x 56 cm.
Private collection
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10
June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the
Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only
what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the
previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was
important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet
occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and
as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
Courbet's paintings of the late 1840s and early 1850s
brought him his first recognition. They challenged convention by depicting
unidealized peasants and workers, often on a grand scale traditionally reserved
for paintings of religious or historical subjects. Courbet's subsequent
paintings were mostly of a less overtly political character: landscapes,
seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes and still lifes. He was imprisoned for six
months in 1871 for his involvement with the Paris Commune, and lived in exile in
Switzerland from 1873 until his death. More Jean Désiré
Gustave Courbet
Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.H.A., R.S.A., 1856-1941
THE ANGLER, c. 1911
Oil on canvasboard
25 by 35.5cm., 10 by 14in
Private collection
The Angler is likely to have been painted on the long strand to the east of the Medina at Tangier. Here, during winter rains, a stream known locally as the ‘Jews’ River’, ran off into the sea. It is unlikely to have been suitable for fishing, yet it and the neighbouring rocks were an endless source of fascination for the children in the Lavery entourage. More on this painting
Sir John Lavery RA (20 March 1856 – 10 January
1941) was an Irish painter best known for his portraits and wartime
depictions. Born in Belfast Lavery attended Haldane Academy in Glasgow in the
1870s and the Académie Julian in Paris in the early 1880s. He returned to
Glasgow and was associated with the Glasgow School. In 1888 he was commissioned
to paint the state visit of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow International
Exhibition. This launched his career as a society painter and he moved to
London soon after. In London he became friendly with James McNeill Whistler and
was clearly influenced by him.
Lavery was
appointed an official artist in the First World War. Ill-health, however,
prevented him from travelling to the Western Front. A serious car crash during
a Zeppelin bombing raid also kept him from fulfilling this role as war artist.
He remained in Britain and mostly painted boats, aeroplanes and airships.
After the
war he was knighted and in 1921 he was elected to the Royal Academy.
He and his wife were tangentially involved in the Irish War
of Independence and the Irish Civil War. They gave the use of their London home
to the Irish negotiators during the negotiations leading to the Anglo-Irish
Treaty. In 1929, Lavery made substantial donations of his work to both The
Ulster Museum and the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery and in the 1930s he returned
to Ireland. He received honorary degrees from the University of Dublin and
Queen's University Belfast. He was also made a free man of both Dublin and
Belfast. More
on Sir John Lavery
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