Unknown artist
SS 'Nottingham,' c. 19th C
Oil on panel
25.5 x 31.5 cm
Hull Maritime Museum
SS Nottingham was a passenger and freight vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1891. The ship was built by Swan Hunter in Wallsend and launched on 13 March 1891. She was placed on the Grimsby to Hamburg route with her sister ships SS Lutterworth and SS Staveley, but in 1897 she was transferred to the Grimsby to Rotterdam service.
In 1897 she was acquired by the Great Central Railway. On 11 December 1912 she went ashore in thick fog on Scrooby Sands. Despite the efforts of the tug, she could not be got off. She was refloated later that day. A year later, on 26 December 1913, she was grounded again, this time on a mud bank near the Royal Dock in Grimsby.
In 1915 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a naval supply vessel and became HMS Notts. After the war she was refurbished and returned to the Great Central Railway as SS Nottingham. In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway who kept her in service until she was scrapped in 1935. More on the SS Nottingham
William Lionel Wyllie, (1851–1931)
The Portsmouth Fishing Fleet: The Breeze Falls Light, c. 1907
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 127.5 cm
Royal Academy of Arts
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, 70 miles (110 km) south-west of London and 19 miles (31 km) south-east of Southampton. It is the United Kingdom's only island city. the city has a dedicated fishing fleet consisting of 20 to 30 boats that operate out of the camber docks in Camber Quay, Old Portsmouth. They land fresh fish and shellfish daily, most of which is sold at the quayside fish market. More on Portsmouth
William Lionel Wyllie ((London 5 July 1851 – 6 April
1931 London) was a prolific English painter of maritime themes, in
both oils and watercolours. He has been described as "the most
distinguished marine artist of his day."
From the
early 1870s Wyllie worked as an illustrator of maritime subjects. In 1875 the
Academy rejected two of his works, and in anger he declared his intention to
give up art for a career at sea. Over the course of several sailing cruises as
far afield as Europe he laid the foundations for a lifelong love of the sea and
of maritime subjects.
Wyllie
campaigned vigorously for the restoration of HMS Victory as a founder member of
the Society for Nautical Research, and in 1930 his 42-foot (13 m) panorama of
the Battle of Trafalgar was unveiled by King George V. The painting is seen by
about 100,000 people every year where it still hangs in the Royal Naval Museum
within the Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth.
In 1906, when he moved to Portsmouth, he became closely
associated with the Royal Navy. So much so, indeed, that he was buried with
full naval honours in 1931. In a moving ceremony, reminiscent of Nelson’s state
funeral in 1806, his body was rowed up Portsmouth Harbour in a naval cutter
past battleships with dipped colours and bugles calling and quaysides lined
with dockyard worker. More on William
Lionel Wyllie
William Lionel Wyllie (British, 1851–1931) Title:
The return of the fishing fleet, Portsmouth Harbour
Etching
19.5 x 24.5 cm. (7.7 x 9.6 in.)
Private collection
Edward William Cooke
French Sloop entering the harbour of Tréport
Oil on canvas
81.3 x 134.6cm (32 x 53in)
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 Sound of Iona is a sound between the Inner Hebridean islands of Mull and Iona in western Scotland. It forms part of the Atlantic Ocean. The tidal island of Erraid is at the southern end of the sound. There are also a number of smaller islands and skerries in the sound, including Eilean nam Bàn, Eilean Dubh na Ciste and Eilean Ghòmhain. More on The Sound of Iona
The Sound of Iona is crossed by a passenger ferry, sailing from Fionnphort on Mull to Baile Mòr on Iona.
Robert Kelsey, (British, born 1949)
Across the Sound of Iona
Oil on canvas
42 x 71 cm. (16 9/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
Private collection
The Sound of Iona is crossed by a passenger ferry, sailing from Fionnphort on Mull to Baile Mòr on Iona.
Robert Kelsey was born in Glasgow in 1949, He studied Painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1966 -1970. In 1995 he decided to paint full time since when he has exhibited widely in a number of the annual exhibitions, including the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours and Paisley Arts Institute . He has also served as an artist member on the councils of The Glasgow Art Club and Paisley Art Institute. An extensive traveller in the UK, Europe and the Caribbean, Robert exhibits regularly in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, and has successfully sold his paintings at art fairs and exhibitions in New York, Miami, London, the Continent and Budapest. His work can also be found in a number of corporate collections in the UK, Europe and Asia. In 1998 he was awarded a diploma from Paisley Art Institute. He is currently President of the Glasgow Art Club. More on Robert Kelsey
Donald McIntyre, (British, 1923-2009)
The Red Boat'
Acrylic on card
29 x 38.5cm (11 7/16 x 15 3/16in)
Private collection
Donald McIntyre (1923-2009) was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He spent his early childhood in north west Scotland. McIntyre painted as a youth and developed a style in the Scottish Colourist tradition.
At the age of 40, McIntyre decided to pursue a full time career as an artist. He regularly returned to the coastal landscapes of Scotland and North Wales where he was now living and also spent many Summers on Iona.
McIntrye painted most of his sketches en plein air, finishing larger works in his studio. He was a member of The Royal Cambrian Academy and exhibited regularly with the Thackerary Gallery, the Howard Roberts Gallery and the Albany Gallery. More on Donald McIntyre
Basil Ivan Rákóczi, (Irish, 1908-1979)
Fisherman Resting
Ink and watercolour
53 x 74 cm. (20 7/8 x 29 1/8 in.)
Private collection
Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908–1979) was an artist born in London. He was a prominent and leading member of the Irish art group, the White Stag, along with Kenneth Hall.
Rákóczi was born on 31 May 1908 in Chelsea. Throughout his life he was proud of both his Irish heritage from his mother's side and his Hungarian heritage from his father's. He also held high regard for gypsy practices as his parents had been married in accordance to gypsy rites. Later in his life, he also rediscovered his Celtic roots.
His style varies greatly as he believed to explore psychological aspects of his work. A great many of his friends and contemporaries relied on psychology as a means of art and a number of his friends were members of the Society of Creative Psychology. As a result, his painting have a very modernist yet unique style that is only repeated within the group he formed and ran. He primarily used oil and gouache as a medium but frequently worked with monotype and watercolour and ceramics for tile designs. More on Basil Ivan Rákóczi
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