Charles Edward Dixon
'Victory Opening Fire' at Trafalgar, 1907
Watercolour
18 x 28 cm
Private collection
The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on the 21st of October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar on the Spanish coast, between the combined fleets of Spain and France and the Royal Navy. It was the last great sea action of the period.
As HMS Victory cleared the French ship she came within range of the Neptune which fired her broadside into the Victory damaging the foremast and bowsprit. Captain Hardy ordered the helm over to bring Victory alongside the Redoubtable which was on her starboard side, and as the guns came to bear she fired her starboard broadside into the French ship. More on The Battle of Trafalgar
Charles Edward Dixon (8 December 1872 - 12
September 1934) was a British maritime
painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work was
highly successful and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Several of his
paintings are held by the National Maritime Museum and he was a regular
contributing artist to magazines and periodicals. He lived at Itchenor in
Sussex and died in 1934. More on Charles
Edward Dixon
Thomas Bush Hardy
Shipping scene in calm seas
Watercolour
Private collection
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
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (1824–1898)
Young Girls on the Edge of the Sea, c. 1879
Oil on canvas
61 × 46 cm (24 × 18.1 in)
Musée d'Orsay
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter best known for his mural painting, who came to be known as 'the painter for France'. He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as "an art made of reason, passion, and will" More on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., 1880-1969
SHRIMPING
Watercolour
33 by 24cm., 13 by 9½in.
Private collection
Shrimping is the activity of catching shrimps for eating; using a cheap butterfly net and scraping along the sides of piers or docks and through the sand.
Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December
1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known
especially for his watercolour paintings of women. He also worked in oils,
tempera, and printmaking. He was born in Edinburgh then educated at Daniel
Stewart's College and Edinburgh Institution. From 1894 to 1900 Flint
apprenticed as a lithographic draughtsman while taking classes at the Royal
Institute of Art, Edinburgh. From 1900 to 1902 he worked as a medical
illustrator in London while studying part-time at Heatherley's Art School. He
furthered his art education by studying independently at the British
Museum.
Flint was elected president of Britain’s Royal Society of
Painters in Watercolours (now the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1936 to 1956,
and knighted in 1947. More on Sir William
Russell Flint
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