01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #300

Georges Jules Victor Clairin (French, 1843-1919)

Un dimanche en bord de mer/ A Sunday by the sea, c. 1888

Oil on canvas

90.8 x 131.5cm (35 3/4 x 51 3/4in)

Private collection

Georges Jules Victor Clairin (11 September 1843, Paris – Pouldu, Clohars-Carnoët 2 September 1919) was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah Bernhardt, his friend for 50 years, and is today best known for his 'in costume' and informal intimate portratits of her.

Clairin was apprenticed in the workshops of Isidore Pils and François-Édouard Picot. In 1861 he entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris, and in 1866 first displayed his work. He travelled to Spain with Henri Regnault and to Italy with François Flameng and Jean-Léon Gérôme. He met the Catalan painter Marià Fortuny in Morocco and they visited Tétouan together. In 1895, he travelled to Egypt with the composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

He is best known for his portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, with whom he had a long friendship and whom he depicted in costume for a number of her roles. More on Georges Clairin

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01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #299

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

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 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #297

Malcolm Cheape, (b. 1964) 

CY341 IN HARBOUR 

Watercolour

48cm x 66cm

Private collection

Malcolm Cheape was born in 1964. He is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee.

Malcolm Cheape's primary subject matter is the contemporary and historical world of commercial, industrial and naval shipping. The Scottish east and west coast gives Malcolm the ideal background from which to capture the grace and character of commercial water-bound vessels. He is avid natural historian and through researching the archives of the British maritime museums, and investigating the history and design of boats gone by, Cheape's art work attempts to mirror both past and present. 

Malcolm Cheap works primarily in ink and acrylic. His clever usage of collage - including Scottish poetry, financial records, engineering drawings, hydrological charts, and mythological iconography - makes his paintings truly unique. Relying on tonal effect, a limited range of colours and clever use of collage, his paintings are strikingly distinctive capturing the grace and beauty of the old sailing ships, the vigour and power of warships and the special charm of fishing boats working the Scottish waters.

In addition to Red Rag Art Gallery Malcolm Cheape modern art work has been exhibited at other leading Scottish Art Galleries. His work is in many public collections including the City Art Centre in Edinburgh, the Perth Art Gallery, the McLean Collection in the Greennock Art Gallery, and in many private art collections around the world. More on Malcolm Cheape

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01 Marine Photograph, With Footnotes, #295

Hippolyte Arnoux, (active ca. 1860 - ca. 1890) 

Steamship Queen Elizabeth on the Suez Canal, c.1880

Albumen photograph

8.375 x 10.75 in

Private collection

I could not find any information on this vessel!

Hippolyte Arnoux (active ca. 1860 - ca. 1890) was a French photographer and publisher. He was one of the first photographers to produce images of Egypt and documented the Suez Canal project with extensive photographs and a publication. 

Very little is known about this photographer, other than that he was active in the Nile Valley from about 1869 through to at least 1890. 

By the 1850s, tourist travel to Egypt created strong demand for photographs as souvenirs. A small group of early photographers, mostly of French origin, made their way to Cairo and the Nile Valley to capitalise on this demand. 

During the 1860s, he documented the excavation of the Suez Canal and published the resulting photographs as Album du Canal de Suez. More on Hippolyte Arnoux

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01 Marine Photograph, With Footnotes, #296

Hippolyte Arnoux, (active ca. 1860 - ca. 1890) 

Port Said & Suez Canal, c. 1880

Albumen photograph

8 x 10.875 in.

Private collection

Hippolyte Arnoux (active ca. 1860 - ca. 1890) was a French photographer and publisher. He was one of the first photographers to produce images of Egypt and documented the Suez Canal project with extensive photographs and a publication. 

Very little is known about this photographer, other than that he was active in the Nile Valley from about 1869 through to at least 1890. 

By the 1850s, tourist travel to Egypt created strong demand for photographs as souvenirs. A small group of early photographers, mostly of French origin, made their way to Cairo and the Nile Valley to capitalise on this demand. 

During the 1860s, he documented the excavation of the Suez Canal and published the resulting photographs as Album du Canal de Suez. More on Hippolyte Arnoux

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #294

Walter Elmer Schofield, (American, 1876-1944)

Cornish Harbour

Oil on canvas

30 1/8" x 30"

Private Collection

Cornish Harbours were once the centre of Cornwall's pilchard fishing industry and the old cob and slate buildings bear testimony to a time when large shoals of pilchards were the livelihood of the whole village. More on Cornish Harbours

Walter Elmer Schofield, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / 1869 - 1944), was born in Philadelphia in 1867. He attended Swathmore College and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying with Thomas Anshutz from 1889 to 1892. He then traveled to Paris where he studied at the Academie Julian from 1892 to 1895, and in 1903 he eventually settled, along with his wife Murielle Redmayne and their children, in Cornwall, England. Although he became an expatriate, Schofield was recognized an a part of the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition. Familiar at an early age with the Bucks County region, Schofield visited often, usually from October through April, and painted rural scenes. He often visited his friend, Edward Redfield, and painted with him en plein-air, sharing a love of large canvases. A rivalry ended their friendship, however, when Schofield earned a Carnegie Institute medal for his "Center Bridge - Across the River" in 1904, a painting he put to canvas while in Cornwall. Redfield claimed the composition was initially his own concept and that Schofield stole it. It has been said that from that point on Schofield was never known to have painted in the Bucks County region again.

Schofield won many awards during his lifetime, including two gold medals from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, three awards from the National Academy of Design, and the National Arts Club among many others.

His work is in the permanent collections of some of the worlds most prestigious institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, James A. Michener Art Museum and the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institute, among others. More on Walter Elmer Schofield

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #296

Bateson Mason, (1910–1977)

Black Boat, c. 1955

Oil on board

H 63 x W 88 cm

The Hepworth Wakefield

Frank Bateson Mason (1910 – 1977)  was born in Thackley, Bradford, and studied under Henry Butler at Bradford College of Art, 1927-32 and then, via a scholarship, at the Royal College of Art (RCA), 1932-5.  Mason’s work was singled out by William Rothenstein, a former principal of the RCA, when he paid a visit to Bradford, and it was due to Rothenstein’s encouragement that Frank applied to the Royal College to study.

In his first year at the Royal College, Mason gained the Free Studenship of the College, and in his second year won the Sir William Rothenstein Sketch Club Prize.  He also gained a continuation scholarship, allowing him to continue studying for a third year at the RCA.

Mason exhibited at the New English Art Club, the Storran Gallery,the Redfern Gallery, and at the Royal Academy. He travelled widely on the Continent and his paintings often depicted the scenes from his travels.

Examples are in the collections of the Beecroft Art Gallery, British Council, Government Art Collection, Hepworth Wakefield, Manchester City Galleries, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, Southwark Art Collection (Cuming Museum) in London and with the Rochdale Arts and Heritage Service. More on Frank Bateson Mason 

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #293

Frans Van Bueren, (20th century)

Harbour scene, c. 1954

Oil on canvas

58 cm x 48 cm // 50 cm x 40 cm

Private Collection

Alphonse van Beurden, Antwerp 1878-1962. Art painter, who lived and worked in Antwerp. Son of sculptor Alphonse van Beurden. Studied at the Academy of Antwerp with a strong preference for landscapes and forest scenes in the style of F. Courtens, yet he also painted Schelde scenes, harbor scenes and figures in interiors. His work can be found in museums in Antwerp and St. Niklaas. More on Alphonse van Beurden

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01 Marine Painting - With Footnotes, #340

Eugène Boudin, (1824-1898)

Trouville, le port marée haute/ Trouville, the port at high tide, circa 1885-1890

Oil on panel

10 5/8 x 8 ½ in. (26.8 x 21.7 cm.)

Private collection

Trouville, in full Trouville-sur-Mer, is a seaside resort and port on the English Channel, northwestern France. It is situated where the Normandy Corniche drops to the right bank of the Touques estuary, opposite Deauville-les-Bains, with which community there have ferry and bridge links. Wooded hills above Trouville give way to a magnificent sandy beach and yield splendid views of the twin towns and the Côte Fleurie. Near the beach is a casino, with a theatre and a local history museum. The combined towns are among the most-frequented French resorts on the English Channel. More on Trouville

Eugène Louis Boudin; 12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. 

Born at Honfleur, Boudin was the son of a harbor pilot, and at age 10 the young boy worked on a steamboat that ran between Le Havre and Honfleur. In 1835 the family moved to Le Havre, where Boudin's father opened a store for stationery and picture frames. Here the young Eugene worked, later opening his own small shop. In his shop, in which pictures were framed, Boudin came into contact with artists working in the area and exhibited in the shop their paintings. At the age of 22 he started painting full-time, and traveled to Paris the following year and then through Flanders. In 1850 he earned a scholarship that enabled him to move to Paris, although he often returned to paint in Normandy and, from 1855, made regular trips to Brittany.

In 1857/58 Boudin befriended the young Claude Monet, then only 18, and persuaded him to give up his teenage caricature drawings and to become a landscape painte. The two remained lifelong friends and Monet later paid tribute to Boudin’s early influence. Boudin joined Monet and his young friends in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1873, but never considered himself a radical or innovator.

Late in his life he returned to the south of France as a refuge from ill-health, and recognizing soon that the relief it could give him was almost spent, he returned to his home at Deauville, to die within sight of Channel waters and under the Channel skies he had painted so often. More on Eugène Louis Boudin

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01 Marine Painting - With Footnotes, #341

Eugène Boudin, (1824-1898)

Etretat, marée basse/ Etretat at low tide, circa 1892-1894

Oil on canvas

16 ½ x 22 ½ in. (41.8 x 57 cm.)

Private collection

Étretat is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy in north-western France. It is a tourist and farming town. 

Étretat is best known for its chalk cliffs of a complex stratigraphy of Turonian and Coniacian chalks. Some of the cliffs are as high as 90 metres (300 ft).

These cliffs and the associated resort beach attracted artists including Eugène Boudin, Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet. They were featured prominently in the 1909 Arsène Lupin novel The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc. More on Étretat

Eugène Louis Boudin; 12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. 

Born at Honfleur, Boudin was the son of a harbor pilot, and at age 10 the young boy worked on a steamboat that ran between Le Havre and Honfleur. In 1835 the family moved to Le Havre, where Boudin's father opened a store for stationery and picture frames. Here the young Eugene worked, later opening his own small shop. In his shop, in which pictures were framed, Boudin came into contact with artists working in the area and exhibited in the shop their paintings. At the age of 22 he started painting full-time, and traveled to Paris the following year and then through Flanders. In 1850 he earned a scholarship that enabled him to move to Paris, although he often returned to paint in Normandy and, from 1855, made regular trips to Brittany.

In 1857/58 Boudin befriended the young Claude Monet, then only 18, and persuaded him to give up his teenage caricature drawings and to become a landscape painte. The two remained lifelong friends and Monet later paid tribute to Boudin’s early influence. Boudin joined Monet and his young friends in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1873, but never considered himself a radical or innovator.

Late in his life he returned to the south of France as a refuge from ill-health, and recognizing soon that the relief it could give him was almost spent, he returned to his home at Deauville, to die within sight of Channel waters and under the Channel skies he had painted so often. More on Eugène Louis Boudin

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #292

A. van Beurden Jr ( 1878 - 1962)

Fishing boats in the harbor of Oostende, c. 1930

Oil painting on canvas on panel

40 x 30 cm

Private Collection

Oostende, in earlier times, was a small village built on the east-end (oost-einde) of an island (originally called Testerep) between the North Sea and a beach lake. Although small, the village rose to the status of "town" around 1265 when the inhabitants were allowed to hold a market and to build a market hall.

The major source of income for the inhabitants was fishing. The North Sea coastline has always been rather unstable and in 1395 the inhabitants decided to build a new Ostend behind large dikes and further away from the always-threatening sea. More on Oostende

Alphonse Van Beurden Jr. was the son of the sculptor Alphonse Van Beurden Sr. He was a pupil of the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp where he later became a professor.

He was a member of 'Als ik kan'; an association of painters based in Antwerp ( Belgium ), active from 1883 to 1952. More on Alphonse Van Beurden Jr

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #291

Charles Vermoskie (American, 1905 - 1991)

Brant Rock Massachusetts

Oil on board

Size: 11 x 14 inches

Private Collection

Brant Rock is a village in the town of Marshfield, Massachusetts. It is a residential area that attracts tourists during the summer season because of its abundance of ocean beaches. 

Brant Rock Beach is popular for its esplanade along Ocean Street and the stone jetty that allows beachgoers to venture out over the water. 

Brant Rock and Ocean Bluff were originally inhabited by Native Americans, including members of the Wampanoag tribe of the Algonquian peoples. Native American artifacts have been found extensively in the area. The main road through the area, known today as Ocean Street, is a Native American road, likely very ancient. The area at the end of Brant Rock village, known as Blackman's Point, was a Native American campground. More on Brant Rock

Charles Vermoskie was born March 6, 1905, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and deceased March 4, 1991 in Brockton, Massachusetts. Vermoskie served in the Army during WWII. He died of Congestive Heart Failure at the age of 85 years. His wife was Eleanor (Evangeline) Malinosky. According to Charles death certificate, his parents were from Lithuania. More on Charles Vermoskie

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