01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #146

Joseph Mallord William Turner, (WT: London 1775-1851)
Fishing Boats caught in a Storm
Oil on canvas
48x58 cm
Private collections

Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.


Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. More on Joseph Mallord William Turner





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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #134

Lazzaro Pasini, (Italian, 1861-1949)
Neapolitan coastal scene
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 45cm (12 x 17 11/16in).
Private collection

The Neapolitan coast is one of Italy’s most beautiful stretch of coast, home to stunning scenery, colourful towns and fishermen’s ports. 

Lazzaro Pasini (1861–1949) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, but also some genre works. A pupil of engraver Romualdo Belloli, in Reggio Emilia, the city of his birth, Lazzaro Pasini moved to Florence after obtaining a scholarship to study at the Academy. He frequented Giovanni Fattori’s studio and, attracted by macchia style of painting, he devoted himself to executing landscapes of the Tuscan countryside from life. In 1884, he made his debut at the National Exposition of Turin with a genre scene based on a social theme. Similar themes became a constant feature of his work following his move to Milan in 1886, where he came into contact with exponents of Lombard Naturalism. At the beginning of the 20th century he became interested in the technique of separating colors to achieve effects of heightened luminism in works of a religious nature and in his first Lombard views, which won him the gold medal from the Ministry of Education in 1918. His mature works were devoted mainly to landscape painting, with a return to a late 19th-century naturalistic language. He died in Milan in 1949. More on Lazzaro Pasini

Lazzaro Pasini, (Italian, 1861-1949)
Neapolitan coastal scene
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 45cm (12 x 17 11/16in).
Private collection



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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #135

Attilio Pratella (Italian, 1856-1949)
Fishing boats on the Neapolitan coast 
Oil on board
22.8 x 35cm (9 x 13 3/4in).
Private collection

The Neapolitan coast is one of Italy’s most beautiful stretch of coast, home to stunning scenery, colourful towns and fishermen’s ports. 

Attilio Pratella (born 1856 in Lugo di Romagna, Italy; died 1949 in Naples, Italy) was an Italian painter. Pratella studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. He won a scholarship, so he went to Naples to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, where he spent the rest of his life.

His favourite subjects were Naples with its markets and animated waterfronts, along with the neighbouring hills of Vomero, the island of Capri and the coastline of Sorrento.

Pratella's sons Fausto and Paolo, and his daughter Ada were also painters.

His works are exhibited in the main public Italian Modern Art Galleries of Milan, Naples, and Rome.


After Pratella's death, a street in Naples and in Lugo di Romagna was named after him. More on Attilio Pratella








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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #133

Carlton Alfred Smith, RI, RBA, ROI (British, 1853-1946)
The day's catch 
Oil on canvas 
50.8 x 76.8cm (20 x 30 1/4in).
Private collection

Carlton Alfred Smith, 1853 - 1946, was a British watercolourist, oil painter and genre artist who often made images of cottage interiors showing domestic life and figures in cottage interiors in a romantic manner towards the end of the nineteenth century. Smith studied at the Slade School of Art. He became one of the most technically accomplished watercolorists of the late Victorian period. With Charles Edward Wilson (fl. 1890-1930) he moved from London to join the artistic community founded by Myles Birket Foster Allingham (1848-1926) in the towns or villages surrounding Witley in Surrey. Smith began his career as a lithographer before the start of his better-known interior domestic views that are marked with strong sunshine . He exhibited mostly at Suffolk Street, London, but also at the New Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of British Artists from 1879 onward. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Art. More Carlton Alfred Smith







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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #132

Paul Signac, (French, 1863–1935)
Antibes, Goélettes au port/ Schooners at quay, Antibes, 1914
Watercolor and lead mine on paper
29 x 40.5 cm. (11.4 x 15.9 in.)
Private collection

Antibes is a Mediterranean resort in southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.

From around the middle of the 19th century the Antibes area regained its popularity, as wealthy people from around Europe discovered its natural beauty and built luxurious homes there. It's harbor was used for a "considerable" fishing industry and the area exported dried fruit, salt fish, and oil.


By the First World War, it had been connected by rail with Nice. In 1926, the old Château Grimaldi in Antibes was bought by the local municipality and later restored for use as a museum. Pablo Picasso came to the town in 1946, and was invited to stay in the castle. During his six-month stay, Picasso painted and drew, as well as crafting ceramics and tapestries. When he departed, Picasso left a number of his works to the municipality. The castle has since become the Picasso Museum. More on Antibes

Paul Signac, (born Nov. 11, 1863, Paris, France—died Aug. 15, 1935, Paris) French painter who, with Georges Seurat, developed the technique called pointillism.
When he was 18, Signac gave up the study of architecture for painting and, through Armand Guillaumin, became a convert to the colouristic principles of Impressionism. In 1884 Signac helped found the Salon des Indépendants. There he met Seurat, whom he initiated into the broken-colour technique of Impressionism. The two went on to develop the method they called pointillism, which became the basis of Neo-Impressionism. They continued to apply pigment in minute dabs of pure colour, as had the Impressionists, but they adopted an exact, almost scientific system of applying the dots, instead of the somewhat intuitive application of the earlier masters. In watercolours Signac used the principle in a much freer manner. After 1886 he took part regularly in the annual Salon des Indépendants, to which he sent landscapes, seascapes, and decorative panels. Being a sailor, Signac traveled widely along the European coast, painting the landscapes he encountered. In his later years he painted scenes of Paris, Viviers, and other French cities.

Signac produced much critical writing and was the author of From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism (1899) and Jongkind (1927). The former book is an exposition of pointillism, while the latter is an insightful treatise on watercolour painting. More on Paul Signac





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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...