01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #104

Hans Bohrdt, (11 February 1857 – 19 December 1945)
Wilhelm Gustloff in the Port of Hamburg, c. 1939
Oil on canvas
80 x 120 cm
Private collection

MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German cruise ship transformed into a military transport ship. She was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea, while evacuating German civilians, officials, and military personnel from Gdynia (Gotenhafen) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died, which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.

Constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) organisation in 1937, she had been requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine (German navy) in 1939. She served as a hospital ship in 1939 and 1940. She was then assigned as a floating barracks for naval personnel in Gdynia (Gotenhafen) before being put into service to transport evacuees in 1945. More on MV Wilhelm Gustloff

The Port of Hamburg, is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea.

It's Germany's largest port and is named the country's "Gateway to the World". Hamburg is the second-busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam) and 15th-largest worldwide. 

The harbour is location is naturally advantaged by a branching Elbe, creating an ideal place for a port complex with warehousing and transshipment facilities. More on The Port of Hamburg

Hans Bohrdt (11 February 1857 – 19 December 1945) was a German artist. He was a self-taught painter who would later go on to give private lessons to Kaiser Wilhelm II. German Kaiser Wilhelm II took a liking to Bohrdt and would fund all of his projects, which were often nationalistic in nature. In 1915 Bohrdt created his most famous illustration which is called "The Last Man". The image shows a German navy officer holding up a German flag as his ship sinks because he would rather go down with the ship than surrender. "The Last Man" would become one of the most widely recognized propaganda images used during the war to inspire courage. Bohrdt was accepted into the Imperial Yacht Club in Kiel. In 1906 the Kaiser granted Bohrdt a spacious villa in Berlin. After World War I, Bohrdt made a living drawing maritime postcards, book illustrations, magazines, and supplied images for newspaper articles. More on Hans Bohrdt 

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #109

William Edward Webb, English, 1862-1903 
View of a Harbor 
Oil on canvas 
22 x 38 inches (56 x 96.5 cm) 
Private collection

William Edward Webb (British, 1862-1903). A permanent resident of Manchester, he widely frequented the coasts and ports of Great Britain, producing an impressive output of active scenes celebrating the challenges faced by those who plied their trades on the open ocean.

Webb exhibited more than 60 paintings from 1890 to 1904, mostly in his hometown, but also with the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and three times with the Royal Academy in London. Greater commercial recognition came to Webb posthumously partially through the efforts of author Denys Brook-Hart, who saw what he identified as the extreme first-hand excellence of the artist.

Webb’s art is celebratory in spirit while it offers no false glamour of the hard lives faced by working sailors and fishermen in the 19th century. His seas are vibrant and active, his atmospheric light exceedingly realistic of the heavy skies of the British Isles, and his portrayals of the local people artistically insightful. More William Edward Webb



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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #103

Amos Sewell (American, 1901-1983)
Peg-legged Captain
Oil on board
32 x 24 in. (sight)

Amos F. Sewell, (1901-1983), was born in Oakland, California. By 1921 he had a job as a bank clerk and he studied night classes at the California School of Fine Arts. In his spare time he drew unsolicited interior story illustrations and mailed them to pulp publishers. He sold his first drawings to Street & Smith.

After the financial crisis of 1929 Amos Sewell lost his job at the bank. In June of 1930 he shipped out of San Francisco on a lumber boat and traveled through the Panama Canal.

He arrived in New York City and visited Street & Smith in person in search of freelance illustration work. He drew dry brush interior story illustrations for many issues of Clues. He also found work drawing for Popular Publication's Horror Stories, and Terror Tales.

He studied at The Grand Central School of Art with Harvey Dunn.

In 1936 he moved to Westport, Connecticut.

In 1937 he began to get assignments from slick magazines such as Country Gentleman, and later for The Saturday Evening Post, for which he illustrated an ongoing series of stories by R.R. Annett that ran for over twenty years.

In the 1950s Sewell was busy doing advertising work for major advertisers.


Amos Sewell died in Norwalk Hospital at the age of eighty-two on October 30, 1983. More on Amos Sewell 






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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #108

Claude Monet 
The Museum at Le Havre, 1873
Oil on canvas
75 x 100 cm
The National Gallery, London, UK

This is an important work which dates from a key period in the artist's career. In the early 1870s Monet lived mainly at Argenteuil but made frequent trips to his home town, Le Havre, on the Normandy coast.

In 1872 and 1873 he painted several views of the harbour at Le Havre including his famous 'Impression: Sunrise' (Paris, Musée Marmottan), the picture which provoked the term 'Impressionism'. The view here is taken from one of the walls of the inner harbour looking across to the Musée des Beaux-Arts. The museum was destroyed during the Second World War and has since been replaced by a modern structure. More on The Museum at Le Havre

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883 Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. In 1899 he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life. More Oscar-Claude Monet







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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #106

Kasia Derwinska, Spain
Distant lands
Photography
15.7 H x 31.5 W x 0 in
Private collection

Kasia Derwinska "Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life's path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that dreams are the most simbolic language of our subconscious, a guide to navigate in the modern world. I am autodidactic and I don´t recognize myself as a photographer. I use photography as a tool, like a brush for painting or an instrument to play music. My work is an attempt to connect substantiality of the world that surrounds us with elusiveness of feelings and thoughts. For that reason I describe my creations as building a bridge between the visible and the invisible. My works are divided in four basic series: fairytales and fantasies, conceptual black and white, night dreams, and the color serie called "who sings, frightens away his fears"  More on Kasia Derwinska



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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #100

Margarita Kukhtina, Canada
Harbor Port Credit
Oil on Canvas
48 H x 32 W x 1 in

Port Credit was originally a settlement of the Mississauga Ojibwe First Nations band and a trading post established in 1720 for the exchange of goods from the Europeans for furs trapped by the Mississaugas. After the War of 1812, a harbour was established by the Mississaugas together with European settlers. In 1847, the Mississaugas left the village to relocate on the Six Nations Reserve to be with other band members and first nations. Industry was established on the village periphery including an oil refinery, but the village is no longer a substantial industrial district. The village survived into the 20th century, becoming an independent municipality in 1909, until it was merged with the City of Mississauga in 1974.

Today, the original core village is now a heritage conservation district. The harbour is mostly used for recreational boating. More on Port Credit

Margarita Kukhtina was born in Kursk, Russia. From an early age, she displayed her artistic talent by painting at her teacher's studio who was a master of the Old Russian academic style in Beaux Arts. In 1984, she was accepted to the prestigious Kharkov Art Industrial Institute, and upon graduating was invited to join the staff of Orel College of Fine Arts. Since 1995 to 2002 she was the main creator of the great collection of pictures (over 120 enormous oil paintings) located at theme parks: "King's City" and "The Bible Museum in Israel". In 2002, she immigrated to Canada, where she resumed work in the Fine Arts department. Margarita's work is held in private collections spanning over Israel, Germany, the US and Canada. More on Margarita Kukhtina






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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #102

Henry Cruse Murphy, (American, 1886-1931)
Sails of Sunset
Oil on board
24 x 15.5 in.
Private collection

Henry Cruse Murphy, Jr., (1886-1931), was born February 26, 1886 in Brooklyn, NY. He was a member of one of Brooklyn's oldest families. In 1904 he graduated from a Brooklyn public high school, after which he attended Columbia University School of Applied Science for a degree in Electrical Engineering, Class of 1908.

Thanks to his natural drawing talent he became popular among classmates as a gifted cartoonist. He contributed illustrations to the student newspaper, of which he eventually became the art editor. Encouraged by these achievements he decided to pursue an artistic career. In September 1907 he transferred to the School of Fine Arts. 

In the summer of 1909 he moved to a working class tenement at 425 West 26th Street, and at the same time opened an art studio, where he struggled to find work as a newspaper cartoonist.

By 1910 he was living back at home with his parents in Brooklyn, while spending the warmer months working as a landscape artist with oil paints and watercolors at his family's country home in Indian Chase Park near Greenwich, CT.

On February 10, 1918 he reported for draft registration in the Great War, he was not selected for military service.

Throughout the 1920s he painted many cover illustrations for pulp magazines. In 1924 he painted the historic World War battle scene of the U.S. Army 27th Division breaking through the Hindenburg Line. The painting is in the permanent collection of the National Museum in Washington, DC.


Henry C. Murphy, Jr. died of cancer in Greenwich, CT, at the age of forty-five on January 1, 1931. More on Henry Cruse Murphy




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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #101

Henry Cruse Murphy, (American, 1886-1931)
On Deck, Treasure Island interior illustration
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 in.
Private collector

Henry Cruse Murphy, Jr., (1886-1931), was born February 26, 1886 in Brooklyn, NY. He was a member of one of Brooklyn's oldest families. In 1904 he graduated from a Brooklyn public high school, after which he attended Columbia University School of Applied Science for a degree in Electrical Engineering, Class of 1908.

Thanks to his natural drawing talent he became popular among classmates as a gifted cartoonist. He contributed illustrations to the student newspaper, of which he eventually became the art editor. Encouraged by these achievements he decided to pursue an artistic career. In September 1907 he transferred to the School of Fine Arts. 

In the summer of 1909 he moved to a working class tenement at 425 West 26th Street, and at the same time opened an art studio, where he struggled to find work as a newspaper cartoonist.

By 1910 he was living back at home with his parents in Brooklyn, while spending the warmer months working as a landscape artist with oil paints and watercolors at his family's country home in Indian Chase Park near Greenwich, CT.

On February 10, 1918 he reported for draft registration in the Great War, he was not selected for military service.

Throughout the 1920s he painted many cover illustrations for pulp magazines. In 1924 he painted the historic World War battle scene of the U.S. Army 27th Division breaking through the Hindenburg Line. The painting is in the permanent collection of the National Museum in Washington, DC.


Henry C. Murphy, Jr. died of cancer in Greenwich, CT, at the age of forty-five on January 1, 1931. More on Henry Cruse Murphy





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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #126

NORMAN LINDSAY 1879-1969
Boarded, c. 1954
Watercolour on paper 
51.5 x 40 cm
Private collection


Naval boarding is to come up against, or alongside, an enemy ship to attack by placing combatants aboard the enemy ship. The goal of boarding is to capture, or destroy, the enemy vessel. Larger ships carried specially trained and equipped sailors, or marines, as boarders. More on Boarding


Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer.

In 1895, Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on a local magazine with his older brother Lionel. In 1901, he and Lionel, his older brother, joined the staff of the Sydney Bulletin, a weekly newspaper, magazine and review. His association there would last fifty years.

Lindsay travelled to Europe in 1909. In Naples he began 100 pen-and-ink illustrations for Petronius' Satyricon. Visits to the then South Kensington Museum where he made sketches of model ships in the Museum's collection stimulated a lifelong interest in ship models. The Lindsays returned to Australia in 1911.

Lindsay wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding which was published in 1918. Many of his novels have a frankness and vitality that matches his art. In 1938, Lindsay published Age of Consent.

Cartoons, by Lindsay, were used both for recruitment and to promote conscription during World War I.
Lindsay also worked as an editorial cartoonist, notable for often illustrating the racist and right-wing political leanings that dominated The Bulletin at that time.

Lindsay influenced numerous artists, notably the illustrators Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta; he was also good friends with Ernest Moffitt. More on Norman Alfred William Lindsay




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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #128

Abraham de Verwer, (1600 - 1650)
Sailing Ships in a Bay
Oil on canvas
33 x 42 cm
Private collection

Abraham de Verwer (1585, Haarlem – 1650, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter of cityscapes, (river) landscapes and seascapes. He was also called Abraham de Verweer van Burghstrate. He travelled in northern France and when he returned, he settled in Amsterdam. It is unknown who taught him to paint, but he was noted in his wife's testament in Haarlem in 1607 as a "schrijnwerker" or cabinet-maker, and in 1614 he was noted in an Amsterdam estate inventory as a painter. He travelled in France from 1637-1639. He was the father of the Amsterdam poet Catharina Verwers and the Amsterdam painter Justus de Verwer.  More on Abraham de Verwer 





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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #127

Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen
Coastal Landscape with a Warship at Anchor
Oil on panel
49.5 x 84.5 cm
Private collection

Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen (c. 1576 – 29 December 1633) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He was born and died in Haarlem. He was the son of a Haarlem captain

He specialized in paintings depicting ships and sea battles, and received orders from the municipal councils of Haarlem and Amsterdam. He painted the most popular picture of the Damiaatjes legend of Haarlem, showing how a Haarlem ship broke the protective chain at Domyat, Egypt during the Fifth Crusade, resulting in an important victory over Islam. This painting was such a success that it was reordered in tapestry form, and both pieces are in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum.


The city of Haarlem archives still hold the original records of the 1629 order to Van Wieringen to make the tapestry, the largest made in the 17th century (10.75 meters long and 2.40 meters high). This tapestry still hangs on the wall of the Haarlem City Hall council meeting room known as the vroedschapskamer, where it was installed. It is on public display once a year on Monument Day. More on Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen



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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #125

Auton Nowak, 1865 - 1932
Gdańsk, A  Polish Shipyard
Oil On Canvas
47"H x 37"W
Private collection

Gdańsk  is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic Sea. 

With its origins as a Polish stronghold erected in the 980s, the city's history is complex, with periods of Polish rule, periods of Prussian or German rule, and periods of autonomy or self-rule as a "free city". In the early-modern age Gdańsk was a royal city of Poland. It was considered the wealthiest and the largest city of Poland, prior to the 18th century rapid growth of Warsaw. Between the world wars, the Free City of Danzig was in a customs union with Poland and was located between German East Prussia and the so-called Polish Corridor. More on Gdańsk

Anton Nowak (10 May 1865 – 28 May 1932) was an Austrian artist and graphic designer. Hewas born in Marburg an der Drau and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. In 1894, he joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, and had a work shown at the group's first exhibition] Nowak contributed woodcuts to the group's magazine Ver Sacrum, taking inspiration from the northern Adriatic region. He was on the group's working committee in 1898, 1902, and served as the group's president in 1908-09.

He also painted watercolours of the Austrian countryside and the city of Brno, where he ran a painting school. 

Nowak's paintings were brightly coloured and naturalistic; under the Secession's influence, he experimented with pointillism in the style of Théo van Rysselberghe. His work as a designer was firmly within the Secession's tradition. He was influenced by Theodor von Hörmann. More on Anton Nowak



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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS - WITH FOOTNOTES, #21c

George Albert Thompson, (1868 - 1938)
Fishing boats
Oil on canvas
19-1/2 x 23-1/2 in. (49.5 x 59.7 cm.)
Private Collection


George Albert Thompson, (1868 - 1938), best known for Connecticut landscapes and coastal scenes including atmospheric nocturnes, George Thompson frequently painted around Bridgeport, Mystic, and New Haven. 

He was an art teacher at the Yale School of Fine Arts where he studied. He was also a student of John LaFarge and studied in Paris. Thompson was founder and first president of the Mystic Art Association and exhibited at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy and the Corcoran Gallery biennials. More on George Albert Thompson




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01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #21c

Édouard Adam (French, 1847-1929)
The ships La Pacicique and Tropique passing at sea
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (60.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Private Collection


Édouard Adam (French, 1847-1929) was the name of both a father and son who painted ship's portraits in the port of Le Havre around the same time. There is much confusion between the two as their works were quite similar. Both Adams were the official painters to the department of marine in Le Havre and were well known and prolific marine artists.

The younger Adam usually signed himself "Adam Fils" and was better known for his steamships painted in the first quarter of this century. Adam the elder, who was more prolific, specialized in sailing vessels, but painted steamers as well. He is often regarded as the French equivalent of the master American ship portraitist, Antonio Jacobsen and is noted for recording the crucial transition period of wind power to steam.

In addition to many fine portraits of sailing vessels, both Adams painted commissions of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique Liners, private yachts and naval ships. A commission from Queen Victoria further attests to their abilities. More on Édouard Adam



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01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #21b

Henry Malfroy ( b. January 15, 1895, in Martinique; died in 1944)
Martigues
Oil on canvas
60 x 92 cm
Private Collection

Martigues is a commune northwest of Marseille. It is part of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the eastern end of the Canal de Caronte.

Nicknamed the "Provençale Venice", Martigues is a point of passage between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sea of Martigues (now Etang de Berre), close to the Côte d'Azur. The charm of its canals, its docks and bridges made it "The Venice of Provence". Martigues possesses also its cooperative winery "La Venise provençale": Coteaux d'Aix en Provence, rosé, red and white wines, fruit juices and natural oils in the region. More on Martigues


Henry Malfroy, ( b. January 15, 1895, in Martinique; died in 1944), was born in Martigues (Mouth of the Rhone) on the 15th January 1895. 

He was most likely the son of Charles Malfroy, with whom he is often confused. He was an impressionist painter, specialising in topographical subjects including the town of Cassis, the Mouth of the Rhone, the Var and in particular street scenes of Paris. 

He regularly exhibited at the Salons des Artistes Francais et des Independants. More on Henry Malfroy




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01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #21a

Joaquín Sorolla, 1863 - 1923, SPANISH
RETURN WITH THE CATCH, c. 1908
Oil on canvas
25.5 by 37.5cm., 10 by 14½in.
Private Collection

Painted on El Cabañal beach, Valencia, in 1908, the present work takes up a theme that preoccupied Sorolla like no other: returning fishermen attended by their wives and daughters carrying baskets in which to carry to market the day's catch. The subject had first attracted Sorolla in the early 1890s when he painted his large scale canvas La Vuelta de la pesca in 1894, and exhibited it to great acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1895 (bought by the French State, and now in the Musée d'Orsay). The present work, painted in situ, evokes the bustling atmosphere of the fishing community on the Valencian beach. More on this painting

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land. More on Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida



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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #125

Montague Dawson, British, 1895-1973 
Night Suspect (A British Coast Guard Cutter in Pursuit) 
Signed Montague Dawson(ll) 
Oil on canvas 
25 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm) 
Private collection

The painting depicts the dramatic chase on a moonlit night by the British Coast Guard, firing a canon at suspected smugglers in the English Channel. More on this painting

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 (18111878), 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 (18411917), 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




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01 Marine Work, GEORGE SAVARY WASSON's USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, With Footnotes, #320

GEORGE SAVARY WASSON (American, 1855-1932) USS Brooklyn at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, c. 1901 Oil on canvas 30 x 45 in. Private collect...