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

Laurits Bernhard Holst, Danish 1848-1934

Shipping off Gibraltar, c. 1876

Oil on canvas

42.8x70cm

Private collection

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered to the north by Spain. In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of the Habsburg claim to the Spanish throne. The territory was ceded to Great Britain in perpetuity under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. More on Gibraltar 

Laurits Bernhard Holst, Danish 1848-1934 was born in the small fishing village of Borgense in Denmark. He was the son and pupil of Niels Peter H. Holst and studied at the Copenhagen Academy until the age of twenty when he sailed to New York to travel in North America and Mexico. He lived a year in Chicago before returning to Denmark in 1870. In 1873 he moved to England and lived in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, for five years, before returning to Denmark. In 1883 he moved to London to be at the centre of the Victorian art world, and from 1892 he occupied Herkomer's old studio in Chelsea. Finally in 1896 Holst settled in Bournemouth, Dorset, where he lived until his death in 1934.


Holst was almost exclusively a marine painter, treating his chosen subject in such diverse locations as Denmark, Norway, England, the Côte d'Azur, Gibraltar and the Nile at Cairo. The variety of locations allowed him to represent the sea in a broad range of temporal and atmospheric conditions, ranging from the ice-locked seas of Denmark and Norway to the sun drenched warm waters of the Mediterranean basin. As Edgcumbe Stanley observed of Holst in The Studio of 1903: "he seizes the momentary movement of the sea, that mysterious poetry of the ocean and fixes it without effort." More on Laurits Bernhard Holst

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #124

Hamilton Hayes, Georgetown, MA, United States

Pilot House Vineyard Haven

Oil on Canvas

36 H x 36 W x 1 in

Private collection

A Pilot House or Deckhouse is for a ship's helmsman; containing the steering wheel, compass, and navigating equipment

Vineyard Haven is the main port of entry to Martha's Vineyard. The Steamship Authority wharf is located in Vineyard Haven where ferries arrive and depart year-round. 

Rick Hayes. "Enjoying exploring a variety of subjects from my studio here in New England. They range from the familiar and close to home to the exotic (Uganda, Haiti, Guatemala) things, people and scenes from where my travels have taken me. Have fun browsing." More on Rick Hayes

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #123

Jean-Pierre Kunkel, Germany

Pool No. 21

Oil on Canvas

39.4 H x 39.4 W x 1.6 in

Private collection

Jean-Pierre Kunkel was born 1950 in France. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany). He worked for 40 years as a freelance advertising illustrator and painter with a focus on photorealism in Hamburg. In his first creative phases he stayed in Paris and New York. There he worked as assistant to Jean-Paul Goude, which from then on decisively influenced his photorealistic way of working. „"For me it’s not a question of competing with the precision of a camera lens and transferring a 1:1 snapshot to the canvas. Rather, I am interested in the possibilities of giving the reality of the photo a completely different effect. I am working with color intensities, light reflections and surface structures to create a new reality. The painting enables me to intensify the uniqueness of the moments I captured with the camera and to adapt it to my own ideal.“ More on Jean-Pierre Kunkel

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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #118

Linda Weir

SPRING LIGHT, ST. IVES HARBOUR

Oil on canvas

23 1/5 × 38 in; 59 × 96.5 cm

Private collection

St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort.

The origin of St Ives is attributed in legend to the arrival of the Irish saint Ia of Cornwall, in the 5th century. The parish church bears her name, and St Ives derives from it.

St Ives was the most important fishing port on the north coast. The pier was built by John Smeaton in 1767–70 but has been lengthened at a later date. The octagonal lookout with a cupola belongs to Smeaton's design. More on St Ives 

Linda Weir

'BIG SWIRL - SPRING TIDE'

Oil on board

15 7/10 × 26 in; 40 × 66 cm

Private collection

Linda Weir was born in Manchester 1951. She gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, then a PGCE in Art and later an MA in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University. Her extensive teaching career between 1983 to 2003 included positions at the University of Nottingham and Manchester Metropolitan University. She was a member of Manchester Academy of Fine Art. In 2005 she moved to Cornwall and now lives and paints in St Ives. All her recent work is ‘en plein air modernist expressionistic and is mostly impasto oils. Her paintings illustrate constant change, movements, seasons, to catch a moment or moments making them live forever in the paint. Her paintings are often colourful and the paint thickly applied. Linda Weir has exhibited extensively throughout the UK including the Royal Academy Summer Shows and she is regarded as one of Cornwall’s foremost artists. More on Linda Weir

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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #121

Tommaso de Simone, Italian 1805-1888

The sail and steamship HMS Pallas coming into port, c. 1884

Oil on canvas

26x39.5

Private collection

HMS Pallas was a purpose-built wooden-hulled ironclad of the Royal Navy, designed as a private venture by Sir Edward Reed, and accepted by the Board of Admiralty because, as an economy measure, they wished to use up the stocks of seasoned timber held in the Woolwich Dockyard. The fact that Woolwich was not equipped to build iron ships was also relevant.

She was built with two of her big guns on either broadside and the others mounted in the extreme bow and stern as chase guns. The small number of guns, and the low weight of the broadside, was excused on the basis that the ship's primary weapon was the ram. Pallas was the first warship in the Royal Navy to be fitted with compound expansion engines, and a high performance was expected from them.

HMS Pallas was commissioned at Portsmouth, and served with the Channel Fleet until September 1870, when she was paid off for a long (and very early) refit. She served in the Mediterranean Fleet from 1872 to 1879, and was paid off. She was retained in fourth class reserve at Devonport until sold. More on HMS Pallas

Photograph of British ironclad HMS Pallas, between circa 1867 and circa 1877

Tommaso de Simone, Italian, 1805-1888, is considered to be one of the most important ship portraitists who practiced in the Italian seaport cities. The father of noted sea painter Antonio de Simone, Tomaso specialized in oils, the majority depicting warships and merchant vessels. He also created scenes of the Battles of Lissa (1867) and Alexandria (1882).

The architectural properties of Tomaso de Simone's paintings are exceptional. His hull shapes have fullness and flexibility, his rigging shows a wealth of detail. His portrait of the American continental navy frigate constellation was proven so accurate that it was used as a guide for restoration of the ship, still afloat today in Baltimore. From an artistic standpoint, his paintings are richly executed and dramatically appealing. More on Tommaso de Simone

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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #122

John H. 'Jock' Wilson, (1774–1855) (attributed to)

Seascape with Boats and Figures

Oil on canvas

46 x 61.2 cm

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

John H. "Jock" Wilson (1774 in Ayr – 1855 in Folkestone) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter, president of the Society of British Artists in 1827.


Wilson was apprenticed at age thirteen to a decorator named John Norrie in Edinburgh and then received instruction in landscape painting from Alexander Nasmyth. For about two years Wilson lived in Montrose, where he painted landscapes and taught drawing. In 1798 he moved to London, where he painted scenery for Astley's Amphitheatre and one or two other theatres. In 1807–1809 he exhibited at the Royal Academy. He won a premium of £100 from the British Institution for a depiction of the 'Battle of Trafalgar', which was subsequently purchased by Lord Northwick. Wilson was one of the founders of the Society of British Artists and its president for the year 1827. In 1827 he was also elected an honorary member of the Scottish Academy. More on John H. "Jock" Wilson

John H. 'Jock' Wilson, (1774–1855)

Coast Scene with Fishing Boats

Oil on wood

26.7 x 36.9 cm

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds 

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #120

Julian TAYLOR, Born in Paris in 1954
LE PONTON (DOUARNENEZ), THE PONTOON (DOUARNENEZ)
Oil on canvas
20 1/10 × 25 3/5 in; 51 × 65 cm
Private collection

Douarnenez is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

The legendary city of Ys, of Breton folklore, is believed to lie beneath Douarnenez Bay. The port is also associated with the Arthurian medieval story of Tristan, lover of Iseult, for whom Tristan Island is named. The island was originally named St Tutuarn Island after the priory founded there in the 12th century. Douarnenez has several 16th and 17th-century churches, including the Church of Ploaré, which has a Gothic steeple (1548–86), and the chapels of Sainte-Croix, Sainte-Hélène, and Saint-Michel. More on Douarnenez

Julian TAYLOR, Born in Paris in 1954. English painter living in France since 1975. Studied for two years in an Art School  in England and  decides to paint as an autodidact.

Son of the english painter James Taylor, Julian Taylor has followed the Art School classes there for two years. But such a teaching does not suit with his free nature, so he decides to take charge of his training. He settles definitively in France in 1975.

Julian Taylor exhibits regularly in parisian shows (Automne, Artistes Français, Comparaison, S.N.B.A.) and also in Anger’s show. He exhibits since 1975 in different galleries, most of the time in France, but also in Canada, United States, Japan, South Africa and Switzerland. More on Julian TAYLOR

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #116

Jakub Schikaneder

Utonulá/Drowned, c. 1893

Pastel

height 455 mm, width 880 mm

National Gallery in Prague

Jakub Schikaneder (February 27, 1855 in Prague – November 15, 1924 in Prague) was a painter from Bohemia. 

Schikaneder came from the family of a German customs office clerk. Despite the family's poor background, he was able to pursue his studies, thanks in part to his family's love of art. After having completed his studies in Prague and Munich (1871–1879), Schikaneder, alongside Emanuel Krescenc Liška, was involved in the furnishing of the royal box in the National Theatre in Prague; however, this work was lost in a fire in 1881. After his work in the National Theatre, Schikaneder travelled through Europe, visiting Germany, England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and France. From 1891 until 1923 he taught in Prague's Art College. Schikaneder counted amongst those who admired the Munich School of the end of the 19th century.


He died in 1924 and was buried in Vinohrady Cemetery in Prague. More on Jakub Schikaneder

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #119

Charles Ernest Cundall

REGATTA

Oil on canvas

24 2/5 × 40 1/5 in; 62 × 102 cm

Private collection

A regatta is a series of boat races. The term typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft. A regatta often includes social and promotional activities which surround the racing event, and except in the case of boat type championships, is usually named for the town or venue where the event takes place. More on a regatta

Charles Ernest Cundall, RA RWS RP, (6 September 1890 – 4 November 1971), was an English painter of topographical subjects and townscapes, best known for his large panoramic canvases

Cundall was born in Lancashire. After working as a designer of pottery and stained glass he studied at the Manchester School of Art and obtained a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1912. Whilst serving with the Royal Fusiliers in World War I, he was wounded in the right arm and had to learn to paint with his left arm before he returned to the RCA in 1918. From 1919 to 1920 he attended the Slade School of Art, and then continued his studies in Paris. Cundall traveled widely throughout Italy in 1921 and 1923 and also journeyed to Sweden, Russia and Spain. He held his first solo show at Colnaghi's in 1927 and became known for his panoramic pictures, such as Bank Holiday, Brighton (1933), which is now in the Tate. More on Charles Ernest Cundall

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