Marine Art: October 2019

01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #216

Ernest Slingeneyer (1820-1894), Belgian

Fighting on the Sea, C. 1857

Oil on canvas

293 x 370 cm

Private Collection

The painting depicts a true incident from the war of the first French republic, as the artist remarks in the catalog of the exhibition in The Hague 1857. The French ship ‘Le Feu’ sank during a campaign in the North Sea, only five sailors managed to enter a raft. After two days they were spotted by a British ship which sent a sloop to them. But the French sailors defended themselves until death to avoid captivity. The subject of the painting with shipwrecked men, crowded together on a raft goes back to the famous painting ‘The Raft of the Medusa’ by Théodore Géricault (1819). But while Gericault chose to show a blameful, scandalous incident within the French navy, Slingeneyer decided to depict a heroic story with great pathos. More on this painting

Ernest Slingeneyer (1820-1894). His artistic training was at the academy of Antwerp by Gustave Wappers. From the beginning he prefered to paint historic themes. With only 19 years he exhibited his first painting. The colossal painting ‘Le Vengeur’, exhibited in 1845 at the ‘Salon of Brussels’, was admired by the Belgian king. He was showered with honours and received numerous orders. In 1878 he was in charge of executing 13 painting for the great hall of the ‘Academiënpalais’ in Brussels and was paid with a record payment of 122.000 Belgian Franc. His great success and influence led to a late political career in the Belgian Parliament. More on Ernest Slingeneyer

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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #215

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, (Spanish, 1863-1923)

Net menders in Valencia, c. 1909

Oil on canvas laid down on board

15 x 22½ in. (38.1 x 57.1 cm.)

Private Collection

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was born in Valencia. He and his younger sister were orphaned 2 years later when both their parents died from a cholera outbreak.

From an early age it was clear that Sorolla had a passion for art. Instead of academic study, the young Sorolla would spend his school days making drawings in his copybooks and by the age of 15 he was winning major prizes for his paintings at the Academy of Valencia.

By his mid 20s Sorolla had firmly established himself on the national stage and by 30 he had displayed paintings in salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin, and Chicago. By the turn of the century Sorolla was recognised as one of the western world’s greatest living artists, receiving gold medals in several major international exhibitions.

Over the first decade of the 20th century Sorolla’s output was incredible, both in quality and quantity. As well as painting many striking portraits, his new found wealth enabled him to devote himself more fully to painting where and what he wanted. Throughout this decade Sorolla was completing hundreds of paintings each year, often canvases of 2 metres or more painted direct on the beach.

In 1909, the Hispanic Society of America hosted an exhibition of Sorolla’s works in New York City. Of the 356 paintings on show a total of 195 were sold.

In 1911 Sorolla started work on a major commission to produce a series of vast panels celebrating the life and customs of the different regions of Spain for the Hispanic Society’s new headquarters in New York. This enormous and exhausting endeavour was to dominate the next 8 years of Sorolla's life, although he still managed to find time to paint some of his most stunning beach scenes.

Sorolla suffered a paralyzing stroke in 1920 and died three years later. More on Joaquín Sorolla

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01 Marine Painting - With Footnotes, #204

Vilhelm Karl Ferdinand Arnesen (Danish, 1865–1948)

Seascape with Royal Danish Navy vessels, c. 1908

Oil on canvas

51×43.5 cm.

Private collection

Wilhem Karl Ferdinand Arnesen (Danish, 1865-1948). Arnesen's father was a skipper and a builder of model ships developing Arnesen's interest for maritime at a very young age. Later when Arnesen was educated at the Academy of Arts he was given the highly esteemed honour to accompany the Danish Royal family on their many travels abroad. Arnesen was known for his detailed and powerful seascapes with large sail ships and often portrayed famous historical events. Arnesen traveled and worked all around the world and his paintings were in high demand. Arnesen is known to be the last of the great old national marine artists. The paintings of Arnesen have been exhibited at the world fair in Chicago , Museum of Arts in Lübeck , Germany and frequently at Charlottenborg.

Twice he won one of the Neuhausens Prizes ( 1893 for A major sailing ship is behind the pilot , 1899 for the school ship Georg Stage ). He received the Aarsmedaillen in 1907 (for the bright nights ) and became Knight of the Dannebrog in 1931. More on Wilhem Karl Ferdinand Arnesen

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #205

Claudio Missagia, France

Umbrellas

Acrylic and Plaster on Canvas.Painting

39.4 H x 70.9 W x 1 in

Private collection

Claudio Missagia was born in 1959 Italy. Claudio works with acrylique and plaster on canvas to produce large-scale paintings defined by a dream atmosphere. Exploring representations of chandeliers, lamps, cups and landscape scenes, Claudio plays with composition, utilising a moody colour palette to create a dream dimension to his work. He abandoned his career in business administration to realise his passion for art and to become a professional artist. Through his paintings, he wants to express his sensitivity towards the real and the profound poetry that can be witnessed in the everyday. Although he often abstracts the subjects that he depicts, what he wants to present to his viewer is his undiluted vision of reality. Claudio works with canvases made from cotton or burlap and then uses chalk and cement as the foundation for his compositions, which he usually executes in acrylic, pastels or pencil. His work has evolved over the years, from still lifes and interiors. Claudio’s more recent work explores urban landscapes and the butterfly, a symbol of his introspective self. His paintings have been shown worldwide, hosting solo shows in Siena, St Tropez, Mougins, Venice, Madrid and Germany. More on Claudio Missagia

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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #203

Vilhelm Karl Ferdinand Arnesen (Danish, 1865–1948)

Detail, Prince Carl and Princess Maud of Denmark leaving Copenhagen for Oslo on the Royal Yacht as King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway , 1905

Oil on canvas

48 x 70 cm. (18.9 x 27.6 in.)

Private collection

Vilhelm Karl Ferdinand Arnesen (Danish, 1865–1948)

Prince Carl and Princess Maud of Denmark leaving Copenhagen for Oslo on the Royal Yacht as King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway , 1905

Oil on canvas

48 x 70 cm. (18.9 x 27.6 in.)

Private collection

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #214

Charles Haigh Wood

Mending the sail

Oil on canvas

12 x 18in (30.4 x 45.7cm)

Private Collection

Charles Haigh-Wood, (British, 1856-1927) was a genre painter, who lived in London, Bury and Taplow, Buckinghamshire.

Haigh-Wood’s enchanting visions of romance, with attractive girls and pretty dresses are some of the most endearing and popular of all images. His patrons adored them, a successful businessman of Haigh-Wood’s day with any pretension to artistic taste had to own one.

He exhibited from 1874 to 1904, at the Royal Academy from 1879 to 1904, Suffolk Street, New Watercolour Society and elsewhere.

Titles at the Royal Academy include “The Harvest Moon” 1879, “Chatterboxes” 1889 and “The Old Love and the New” 1901. More on Charles Haigh-Wood

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #202

Jane Long

Worth my Salt

The Inevitable Changes Of Self-Preservation

Photography

25 cm x 25 cm

Private collection

Jane Long is a photographer and digital artist, born in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. Currently based in Brisbane, Australia, she combines photography and photomanipulation to create slightly surreal images that straddle the line between reality and fantasy.

Completely self-taught, she has worked with Photoshop since 1994, both commercially and for personal work. More recently she has delved wholeheartedly into photography, concentrating on conceptual work. However digital art remains a passion and forms an integral part of her work. More on Jane Long

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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #201

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1831 - 1915, DUTCH

SHIPS AT SEA, c. 1875

Oil on panel

15 1/2 by 20 in., 39.4 by 50.8 cm

Private collection

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter born in Groningen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856, and when they inherited a fortune from her father, Mesdag retired at the age of 35 to pursue a career as a painter.

He studied in Brussels with Willem Roelofs and in 1868 moved to The Hague to paint the sea. In 1870 he exhibited at the Paris Salon and won the gold medal for The Breakers of the North Sea.

In 1880 he received a commission from a Belgian company to paint a panorama giving a view over the village of Scheveningen on the North Sea coast near The Hague. With the help of Sina and students he completed the enormous painting, Panorama Mesdag,— 14 m high and 120 m around — by 1881. However, the vogue for panoramas was coming to an end, and when the company operating it went bust in 1886, Mesdag purchased the painting at auction and thereafter funding its operating losses from his own pocket.

He joined the art society of The Hague (the Pulchri Studio) and in 1889 was elected chairman. In 1903 he gave his house at Laan van Meerdervoort and his collection of paintings to the Netherlands; the house is now the Museum Mesdag. More on Hendrik Willem Mesdag

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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #200

Joseph Steininger

Abaft

Spray paint on panel

36 x 54 in

Private collection

Joseph Steininger is an artist and innovator. Using intricately detailed and hand-cut stencils applied with spray paint, his personal work is influenced by street art culture and printmaking. Using the traditional and time-honored forms of fine art, his pieces are remarkably complex and masterfully represent this contemporary medium.

Though spray paint is still seen by many to be a medium incapable of creating fine art, Joseph aims to bridge the gap between those pre-conceived notions of what can and cannot be fine art. By using the contemporary medium of spray paint mixed with more traditional subject matters, the artist forces the viewers to expand their assumptions about spray paint’s place in the fine art world. The artist creates his work by meticulously hand-cutting intricately detailed stencils. The stencils are then layered in a particular way to create a distinct body of work which displays his mastery of the craft. More on Joseph Steininger

Joseph Steininger,

Corner View

spray paint on panel

36 x 24 in

Private collection

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #197

Jock MacInnes R.G.I. (Scottish B.1943)

SEAGULLS' SALUTE

Oil and gesso on board

74cm x 89cm (29in x 35in)

Private collection

Jock MacInnes R.G.I. (Scottish B.1943) studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he graduated in 1966.

Like many Artists Jock MacInnes spent his early career teaching Art - in his case at the Glasgow School of Art. Throughout his time teaching Jock continued with his own painting regularly exhibiting and winning art Awards and Scholarships.

Demand for Jock MacInnes paintings increased to such an extent that he left Glasgow Art School to concentrate on full time painting in 1999. Prior to this MacInnes had been elected as a member of the prestigious RGI in 1988 and joined the Council of the RGI in 1995.

Although MacInnes' paintings are influenced by the Scottish Colourist artists, he describes himself as a 'Modernist' at heart. And so he draws upon inspiration from English artists such as Nicholson, Scott and Wallis together with European artists Matisse, Braque and Morandi.

MacInnes has a recurring fascination with marine painting. But he also produces stunning landscape and still life paintings. Unusually he prepares all his own painting grounds, a type of gesso on board.Then he draws and paints on to the surface, he also abrades and scrapes into the canvas. In doing so MacInnes creates a strong feeling of atmosphere and mood.

Collectors of Jock MacInnes paintings include: The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock; Paisley Art Institute; Nationwide Building Society; Royal Bank of Scotland; and Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. More on Jock MacInnes

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