Masters of Venice: Vittoria to Tiepolo | National Gallery of Canada

Masters of Venice: Vittoria to Tiepolo | National Gallery of Canada: Alessandro Vittoria, Giulio Contarini, c. 1570–1576, painted terracotta, 74.3 x 61 x 30.7 cm. (with integral base). National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Photo: NGC

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #114

Montague Dawson, (British, 1895-1973)

The moonlit way - The Invercargill, c. 1938

Oil on canvas

28 x 42 inches (71.1 x 106.7 cm)

Private collection

THE INVERCARGILL. During the year 1874 Robert Duncan built six ships—the Invercargill, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Nelson, and Dunedin—to the order of Patrick Henderson, for the New Zealand trade. They were all launched within six months. These ships were fitted up with every modern convenience and comfort for first-class passengers and immigrants.

The Invercargill was sold to Norway in 1905, and left Glasgow for Christiana to load lumber for Melbourne, but she never reached her destination. She left the Clyde on February 20 with a part cargo of coal, and the general opinion was that she had capsized and sunk, as it was thought in Glasgow that she had not sufficient ballast for a winter passage. Before sailing the ship was renamed the Verg. More on the Invercargill

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 (1811–1878), 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 (1841–1917), 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 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #113

Arthur James Wetherall Burgess

Glendale

The brotherhood of seamen

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Although the rescue incident shown in this painting is fictitious, the ship, 'Glendale', was real and was a cargo liner built for the Glen Line in 1939. 'Glengyle' was the fifth to bear the name and was built by the Caledon Ship Building & Dry-Dock Co., at Dundee. On delivery she was taken over by the Admiralty and converted into a fast supply ship, flying the white ensign as HMS 'Glengyle'. In April 1940 she was converted into a Landing Ship Infantry capable of carrying 700 troops and was commissioned on 10 September that year. For this role she was also equipped with a naval bridge, six 4-inch guns in twin mountings and 22 landing craft. In 1943, in company with the 'Monarch of Bermuda' and four other transports, she was present at the Sicily landing at Pachino, Operation Husky, and served as Montgomery's headquarters. More on The brotherhood of seamen

Arthur James Wetherall Burgess (1879-1957) Australia. Born in New South Wales, Burgess studied in Australia and England. Best known as a historical marine painter, Burgess exhibited widely in Europe and Australia. In 1913 he was commissioned to paint the Australian Fleet entering Sydney Harbour for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where his work is now represented. He died in 1957. More Arthur James Wetherall Burgess

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #112

David Lloyd Blackwood, CPE CSGA CSPWC OSA RCA 1941 - Canadian

Barbours Neptune II Leaving Newtown

Oil tempera on canvas 

50 x 60 in  127 x 152.4 cm

Private collection

Early in November 1932 the Neptune II  carried a load of salt fish from her home port of Newtown to St. John's, Newfoundland. After discharging her cargo, she took aboard a full load of provisions, and on Nov. 29, she sailed through the Narrows bound for home, about 100 nautical miles away.

There were 11 people aboard her that evening — Capt. Barbour and his five crewmen, together with five passengers. One of the passengers was a woman, Mrs. Humphries, whose husband was the ship's officer in charge of equipment and the crew. Soon after the little vessel left St. John's she was overtaken by a southerly gale which grew into "a steady and severe snowstorm." The gale continued throughout the night and the next day. One of her sails and the boom which carried it were swept away.

"Each steersman in turn was lashed to the wheel for an hour only. It was too cold for human flesh to stay there any longer," Barbour recalled.

The wind then came round to the west, and by early morning on Dec. 1, their third day at sea, Barbour and her crew were 150 miles northeast of Cape Bonavista, and had "overshot our home port, Newtown, by 120 miles." As the ship had no engine, Barbour and his crew had no choice except simply to run before it. They were blown steadily eastwards.

On Dec. 30, Barbour decided that he could not possibly sail back to Newfoundland and decided instead to make for the British Isles.

They made their landfall on Jan. 14, but had no idea where they were; they thought they were in the English Channel, but instead were just off the northern coast of Scotland. A day later, a lighthouse tender vessel towed them into Tobermory. For the first time in 48 days, they stood on land. More on the trip of Neptune II

David Lloyd Blackwood, CM, O.Ont (born November 7, 1941) is a Canadian artist, known chiefly for his intaglio prints, often depicting dramatic historical scenes of Newfoundland outport life and industry, such as shipwrecks, seal hunting, iceberg encounters, and resettlement. He considers himself a "visual storyteller."

Born in Wesleyville, Newfoundland, David Blackwood opened his first art studio in 1956, and in 1959 was awarded a scholarship to study at the Ontario College of Art. After graduating in 1963 he remained in Ontario, where he became Art Master at Trinity College School in Port Hope. Blackwood was involved in establishing an art gallery at Erindale College (a campus of the University of Toronto), now called The Blackwood Gallery in his honour. In 1976, the National Film Board of Canada produced a documentary film about the artist, Blackwood, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. He was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1993, and of the Order of Ontario in 2002. In 2003, he became the first practising artist to be named Honorary Chairman of the Art Gallery of Ontario, which maintains a Blackwood Research Centre and a major collection of his work. More on David Lloyd Blackwood

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #111

Samuel Walters, LONDON 1811 - 1882 LIVERPOOL

THE BRITISH MERCHANTMAN CLIFFORD IN A STIFF BREEZE, PREPARING TO PICK UP HER PILOT OFF THE GREAT ORME, NORTH WALES, ON THE RETURN FROM HER MAIDEN VOYAGE TO INDIA, c. 1885

Oil on canvas

63.5 x 99.2 cm.; 25 x 39 in.

Private collection

The iron ship Clifford was built by the renowned Liverpool firm Thomas Royden & Sons in 1864. Walters portrays the vessel here flying the Royden house flag with the pilot jack at the foremast; the pilot cutter itself is pictured in the distance converging on the same tack. The mountains of North Wales may be seen above the Little Orme on the extreme left, while the Great Orme projects towards the ship's bowsprit and the coastal town of Llandudno lies in between. Astern of the ship is the north-west corner of the Anglesey coast. More on this painting

Samuel Walters (1811 - 1882) was an English maritime artist, considered to be the most enduring figures of the Liverpool School of Marine Art. He was born in London. Samuel moved to Liverpool and began to exhibit work in 1830. He became a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts in 1841. He had work exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1842 to 1861 and also lived in London from 1845 to 1847, before returning to Liverpool to live in Bootle.

He specialised in oil paintings and watercolours on canvas. The Liverpool Museums Resource lists more than 10 of his paintings as being on permanent display in Liverpool, as well as a collaboration between Walters and his father. Some famous ships he painted include the CSS Florida and CSS Alabama. More Samuel Walters

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #110

Dutch School, 17th Century 

A Dutch Fleet in a Storm 

Oil on canvas 

29 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches (75.5 x 65.5 cm) 

Private collection

The Dutch School were painters in the Netherlands from the early Renaissance to the Baroque. It includes Early Netherlandish (1400–1500) and Dutch Renaissance (1500–1584) artists active in the northern Low Countries and, later, Dutch Golden Age painting in the United Provinces.

Many painters, sculptors and architects of the seventeenth century are called "Dutch masters", while earlier artists are generally referred to as part of the "Netherlandish" tradition. Hieronymus Bosch and Geertgen tot Sint Jans are well-known examples of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Dutch painters. Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer, Jacob van Ruisdael and Jan Steen exemplify art during the seventeenth century. An individual work's being labelled or catalogued as "Dutch School" without further attribution indicates that an individual artist for the work cannot be ascertained.

There was a healthy artistic climate in Dutch cities during the seventeenth century. For example, between 1605 and 1635 over 100,000 paintings were produced in Haarlem. At that time art ownership in the city was 25%, a record high. Not all of these have survived, but more art has survived up to today from that period in Haarlem than from any other Dutch city, thanks mostly to the Schilder-boeck published by Karel van Mander there in 1604. More on The Dutch School

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

ANTONIO JACOBSEN, 1850-1921

Harmonia, circa 1875-76.

Oil on canvas

18 by 30 inches,  (45.7 by 76.2 cm)

Private collection

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November 2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels". He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where he attended the Royal Academy of Design before heading across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in the United States in August 1873 and settled in West Hoboken, New Jersey (now Union City, New Jersey), across the Hudson River from Manhattan and New York Harbor. Jacobsen got his start painting pictures of ships on safes, and as his reputation grew, he was asked to do portraits of ships by their owners, captains and crew members, with many of his works sold for five dollars.

Jacobsen painted more than 6,000 portraits of sail and steam vessels, making him "the most prolific of marine artists". Many of his commissions came from sea captains, and Jacobsen was chosen both for the accuracy of his work and his low fee. More Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen

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