Marine Art: April 2020

01 Marine Painting - Ian Hansen, With Footnotes, #273

Ian Hansen, (1948 - )

Tall Ship at Sea, c. 1982

Oil on canvas

90.5 x 121.5cm

Private collection

Ian Hansen, born in South Australia in 1948, spent his childhood years on the shores of Hervey Bay. It was here that his deep love of the sea and ships began. By the age of eight, he was actively painting with watercolours, moving to oils when he was eleven. His first oil work still hangs in his studio in Hunters Hill.

Joining the navy at fifteen, Ian served for twelve years continually painting the ships and scenes he observed on his travels. On leaving the navy, Ian decided to paint full time and eventually settled in Sydney.

Married with three children, Ian lives in Hunters Hill and paints from his studio at home. Ian enjoys taking to sea on his yacht Karalee, competing in many ocean races each year. Sailing is still an important part of his life and it is from these trips that he draws his inspiration and great understanding of the sea.

Ian exhibits with the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut USA, the Kendall Gallery on the Isle of Wight and various galleries in Sydney. In January 2002, he was appointed one of Mystic Museum’s “premier artists” – an appointment only given to twenty artists worldwide.

Ian has won awards at Mystic International Art Exhibition, held annually at the Maritime gallery, Mystic Sea Port in Connecticut USA. More on Ian Hansen

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #272

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish, 1863 - 1923

Puerto de Guetaria, País Vasco/ The Basque Port of Guetaria, c. 1910

Oil on canvas

69 by 80cm., 27 by 31½in.

Private property

Getaria is a coastal town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain. This coastal village is located on the Urola Coast, with Zarautz to the east and Zumaia to the west.

Getaria is known for being Juan Sebastián Elcano’s hometown, a seaman well-known for being the first man to circumnavigate the earth. He was captain of the Nao Victoria, the one ship in Magellan's ill-fated fleet which completed the voyage.

Today, Getaria is also famous for its restaurants serving grilled fish and a white wine with a protected designation of origin which is cultivated in the surroundings of this coastal town and takes the name of Getariako Txakolina. Moreover, the Cristobal Balenciaga Museum is also located in this village. More on Getaria

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, #271

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch, 1831 - 1915

Boats at Sea, c. 1897

Oil on canvas

71 by 57cm., 28 by 22½in.

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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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #270

Gilbert Galland (1870 - 1956)

Boats at low tide

Watercolor on paper

48 x 62 cm

Private collection

Gilbert Galland, born Paul Numa Gilbert Galland the 25 February 1870 in Lyon 5 th , and died on 14 August 1950 in Algeria) was a French orientalist .

In Algiers, in 1889, Gilbert Galland was the pupil of Hippolyte Dubois, painter from Nantes, director of the Beaux-Arts of Algiers. He liked to paint boats, harbors and scenes of life. With his teacher, he was one of the founders of the Society of Algerian Orientalist Artists in 1897. He exhibited at the Society of Fine Arts of Algiers and also in Paris, where he presented watercolors views of Brittany, Marseille , from the Far East and Algeria.

Galland was appointed painter of the Navy in 1900. The same year, he participated in the decoration of the restaurant The Blue Train of the Gare de Lyon in Paris with the Rummel Valley for the Tunisian show, and Vue d'Alger for the show Algerian.

With Maxime Noiré , he went to Bou-Saâda , an oasis city nicknamed "The City of Happiness" or "Door of the Desert", to prepare for the Algerian diorama of the Universal Exhibition of 1900 .

He also paints views of Jerusalem and decorated many ships for the Shipping Companies.

Gilbert Galland receives the Palmes académiques in 1901. More on Gilbert Galland

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01 Marine Painting - Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #269

Henry Scott FRSA (1911-2005)

The Wool Clipper ''Oberon''

Oil on canvas

13.5 x 19.5in.

Private collection

Oberon proved herself one of the swiftest thoroughbreds in the so-called 'Wool Fleet'. Her best-ever passage was Melbourne to London in 77 days when, after leaving Australian waters on 15th November 1874, she docked in London on 31st January 1875 having made - by a handsome margin - the fastest time of the season. Changing owners several times later in her life, she was eventually sold to an Italian concern in 1894 which renamed her Prospero Repetto, a more ambitious but far less attractive name than the one which had made her famous. Thereafter sailing out of Genoa, she finally disappears from record around 1905, presumably scrapped. More on Oberon

Henry Scott F.R.S.A, 1911-2005, British, was a painter of marines and coastal subjects strongly associated with the Royal Society of Artists. As well as painting lucrative shipping portraits for some of his wealthy clientele, he also executed a number of works of British and American clippers. His works have often been confused with those of Montague Dawson. Scott worked in a similar way to that of Dawson and captured a wonderful freshness and feel of immediacy. Scott’s palette is striking, with all surfaces and elements observed, capturing every movement in full flow. His sails are nearly always bellowed with a good stiff breeze, which is further emphasised by the spray of the water being wisped across the top of the choppy seas. Particularly notable are his skies which move the subject helping the canvas feel alive. In 1970 Scott was commissioned to paint ‘Morning Cloud’ which was skippered and owned by the then Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Edward Heath, P.C., M.B.E., M.P.. Scott exhibited at the Society of Marine Artists; The Royal Exchange, London; The Guildhall, London and The Royal Academy. He also exhibited at the St. Malo Museum, France and at Madison Square in New York. He was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and awarded an honorary Life Member ‘Cape Homers’ by the International Association of Master Mariners. More on Henry Scott

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01 Marine Painting - Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #268

Leslie A. Wilcox (1904-1982)

The American Clipper ''Mischief''

Oil on canvas

23.5 x 35.5in.

Private collection

Mischief was an extreme clipper ship built in 1853 by James M. Hood, at Somerset, MA. Dimensions 144'/146'×29'×16'6" and tonnage 548 tons/560,69 tons; reported to have had the sharpest ends of any clipper at the time. Mischief was employed in the California/China trade. In command of Captain Martin Townsend.

Mischief was damaged off Cape Horn and had to put into Valparaiso in a leaking state on the 15th of August, 88 days out. Sailed on September 25.

On November 19th,1880, Mischief was wrecked at Klintmøller en route Grimsby - Copenhagen. The entire crew perished. More on Mischief

Leslie Arthur Wilcox, RI, RSMA (13 March 1904 – 11 January 1982) was an eminent British artist known mainly as a marine artist working in oils. He was also a watercolourist, illustrator, poster artist, marine model-maker and author. He was for some years Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. His works are in many collections around the world, including the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and the Royal Collection. He wrote and illustrated two books on maritime history: Mr Pepys' Navy (1966 G. Bell & Sons Ltd., London) and Anson's Voyage (1969 G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., London). More on Leslie Arthur Wilcox

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #288

Linda Weir (British, born 1951)

St Ives harbour

Oil on canvas

52.5 x 69cm (20 11/16 x 27 3/16in).

Private Collection

St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, UK. The town lies 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 holiday resort, notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639. St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by The Guardian newspaper. More on St Ives

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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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #267

Carlos Nadal, (1917-1998)

La plage/The Beach, c. 1982

Oil and acrylic on canvas

46 x 55.5 cm., 18 1/8 x 21 7/8 in.

Private collection

Carlos Nadal (24 April 1917 – 6 June 1998) was a Spanish painter of the Fauvist school

Nadal was born in Paris on 24 April 1917, but moved to Barcelona in 1921. His father, Santiago Nadal had a commercial design studio, where Carlos learnt to paint, and met modern artists including Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy and Maurice Utrillo.

Nadal studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and the Senior Fine Art Academy of St George, both in Barcelona. He was conscripted into the Spanish Republican Army and fought in the Spanish Civil War, including imprisonment and escape from a concentration camp, before finally returning to his art studies.

Nadal was particularly influenced by Henri Matisse whom he met as a child, and Georges Braque who was a close acquaintance in the 1940s, and maintained a love of the Fauvist style.

His first solo exhibition was in 1942 at La Pinacoteca in Barcelona. His early work was mainly of scenes in Spain or Belgium but when established as a successful artist he travelled extensively, making paintings which often featured modes of transport as well as leisure scenes.

On 1 December 1948 he married Flore Augusta Zoe Joris a Belgian sculptor, moving with her to Brussels in 1949. In 1958. They moved residence between Brussels and Barcelona. He died in Barcelona on 6 June 1998. More on Carlos Nadal

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #266

Edward William Cooke, RA (British, 1811-1880)

A riverside town, c. 1833

Watercolour

24.5 x 17.5cm (9 5/8 x 6 7/8in).

Private collection

Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. (27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880) was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener. Cooke was born in Pentonville, London. He was raised in the company of artists. He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for marine subjects and published his "Shipping and Craft" – a series of accomplished engravings – when he was 18, in 1829. Cooke began painting in oils in 1833, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution in 1835, by which time his style was essentially formed.

He went on to travel and paint with great industry at home and abroad, indulging his love of the 17th-century Dutch marine artists with a visit to the Netherlands in 1837. He returned regularly over the next 23 years, studying the effects of the coastal landscape and light, as well as the works of the country's Old Masters, resulting in highly successful paintings. He went on to travel in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa and, above all, to Venice. In 1858, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician. . More Edward William Cooke

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #286

Nebojsa Ruzic Varda

Limani

Oil on Canvas

15.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 in

Private collections

"Limania" is a Greek word meaning harbors.

Nebojsa Ruzic Varda; "I was born on March, 16. 1955. in Otocac - Lika. I finished schooling in Belgrade, as well as the Faculty of Fine Arts. My main interests are in: drawing, painting, caricature and photography. In the previous period I also dealt with: graphics, film and architecture. I enjoy of beauty Figurative and Abstract Art. I am working in artistic "CYCLES". I love to explore. The most important exhibitions of mine were held in Paris, in 1982. at XII BIENNALE OF PARIS, in Centre Georges Pompidou - Bobur. Since 1991. I am a member of the Serbian Association of Fine Artists in Belgrade ( Serbian abbreviation: U.L.U.S. ) I live and work in Belgrade. In the last twenty-eight years every summer I am staying, working and having inspirations in Greece on Cycladic islands: Paros and Naxos. More on Nebojsa Ruzic Varda

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #265

Charles Murray Padday, RI, ROI (1868–1954)

The Harbour at Bougie, Algeria

Oil on canvas

61 by 75cm., 24 by 29½in.

Private collection

Béjaïa is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria. According to Al-Bakri, the bay was first inhabited by Andalusians.

Béjaïa stands on the site of the ancient city of Saldae, a minor port in Carthaginian and Roman times it was founded as a colony for old soldiers by emperor Augustus.

According to Muhammad al-Idrisi, the port was, in the XIth century, a market place between Mediterranean merchant ships and caravans coming from the Sahara desert. Christian merchants settled fundunqs in Bejaïa. The Italian city of Pisa was closely tied to Béjaïa, where it built one of its two permanent consulates in the African continent.

After a Spanish occupation (1510–55), the city was taken by the Ottoman Turks in the Capture of Bougie in 1555. For nearly three centuries, Béjaïa was a stronghold of the Barbary pirates. The city consisted of Arabic-speaking Moors, Moriscos and Jews increased by Jewish refugees from Spain, with the Berber peoples not in the city but occupying the surrounding villages and travelling to the city occasionally for the market days.

It was captured by the French in 1833 and became a part of colonial Algeria. More on Béjaïa

Charles Murray Padday, RI, ROI (1868–1954), aka Norman L. Wilkinson, was a renowned British artist and illustrator. Wilkinson usually worked in oils, watercolors and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but he was also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur.

Wilkinson studied at Berkhamsted School of Art, and later at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.

Wilkinson's career in illustration began in 1898, when his work was first accepted by the Illustrated London News, for which he then continued to work for many years, as well as for the Illustrated Mail. Throughout his life, he was a prolific poster artist, designing for the London and North Western Railway, and the London Midland and Scottish Railway. It was mostly because of his fascination with the sea that he travelled extensively to such locations as Spain, Germany, Italy, Malta, Greece, Aden, Bahamas, United States, Canada and Brazil.

During the First World War, Wilkinson was the first to propose the use of naval camouflage, for which he coined the term " Camouflage Dazzle ". More on Charles Murray Padday

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #264

Eugène Galien-Laloue, (1854 - 1941)

Navire au port/ Ship at the port

Oil on panel

16.5 x 22 cm

Private collection

Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses. Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th-century art, but for the actual history, which they document. His work can be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Louvier; Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle; Mulhouse, France.

A typical Galien-Laloue painting depicts sidewalks and avenues crowded with people or tourists mingling before the capital's monuments. He also painted the landscapes of Normandy and Seine-et-Marne, as well as military scenes he was commissioned to produce in 1914. The Republic of France selected Galien-Laloue to work as a 'war artist,' both during the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, chiefly in watercolor. More on Eugène Galien-Laloue

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