Marine Art: June 2020

01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #287

René Marie Dujardin, (1913-2002)

The Shipyard

Oil on canvas

50 x 60 cm

Private Collection

René Marie Dujardin, (1913-2002). Born in Antwerp, René-Marie Dujardin knew early attraction to the sailing world. At 6 years he travelled on the SS Garonne, then he traveled the seas and rivers aboard freighters or tankers to Mexico, Norway, the Persian Gulf and Portugal.

René-Marie Dujardin took a course of painting at the Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

He had a long and distinguished career as an internationally renowned artist whose works have joined many collections both in Belgium and abroad. The Belgian government has many of his paintings.

Member of the Belgian Society of Painters of the Sea, he is also a co-founder of the "Vereniging der Schelde Antwerpse Schilders Haven-in".

His workshop, located on the left bank of the Scheldt, overlooking the harbor of Antwerp and the river in which he feels the same attachment as he has to the Greek islands, where vists each year for long stays.

René-Marie Dujardin is one of the founding members of the new Association of Marine Belgian painters that enhances his talent and prestige. More

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #285

John Allcot, (1888 - 1973)

Cutty Sark

Oil on board

29.5 x 34.5cm

Private collection

Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.

The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steam ships now enjoyed a much shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. Improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895, and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman in 1922, who used her as a training ship. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship. By 1954 she was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London on public display. More on the Cutty Sark

John Charles Allcot (1888-1973), artist, was born in Liverpool, England, son of George Allcot, mariner. Educated at Arnot Street Board School, at the age of 14 John was apprenticed to Tillotson & Son Ltd, lithographers, and attended classes at the Liverpool Institute and School of Art. In 1906 he worked in the Mersey tugboats and next year sailed as a deck-boy in the barque, Invermark. He loved painting and would scrounge ship's paint, sailcloth and handkerchiefs with which to depict the sea, ships and life on board.

Arriving in Sydney in 1909, Allcot signed on with the old clipper, Antiope. He worked in coastal, island and intercolonial vessels out of Sydney before giving up the sea in 1912. Supporting himself by painting theatre sets, he obtained commissions for ship paintings from Sydney photographers and toured the countryside, completing landscapes which he exhibited regularly with the Royal Art Society of New South Wales from 1920. About this time he formed an enduring friendship with Phyllis Zanker.

He gained widespread recognition in the 1920s with a series of oil paintings (on the founding of the Australian colonies) which were later acquired by the Australasian Pioneers' Club. Other commissions followed. Allcot also worked as an illustrator and wrote articles about the sea for the Sydney Mail. In the 1940s he painted the seas for ship-models built by the sculptor Robert Klippel. Allcot's painting of the Cutty Sark was presented to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954.

Painting to tried and tested conventions, with impeccable attention to detail, Allcot used water-colour and gouache, and oils. His work was prolific and romantic. At a time of great change in the shipping industry, he specialized in nostalgic views of sailing ships and steamers, and found an appreciative market of ship-owners, captains, crews and their families. More on John Charles Allcot

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01 Marine Art, With Footnotes, #298

James Webb

Fresh Breeze off Texel, c.1874

Oil on panel

30 x 56 cm

Private collection

Billowing sea with sailing boats in the wind, in front of the Dutch North Sea island of Texel,

Texel is a municipality and an island in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea.

James R Webb (1825–1895) was a British painter specialising in marine views and landscapes. He lived all his life in Chelsea, London. He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy and the British Institute between 1850 and 1888, and many of his works still hang in London in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery. Other works are found in a large number of provincial galleries. Webb was a pupil of Clarkson Frederick Stanfield. His father Archibald Webb and his brother Byron Webb were also noted painters. More on James R Webb

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #284

Isabelle Joubert, France

Deep breath

Paper, Acrylic, Paint on Canvas

23.6 W x 31.5 H x 1.6 in

Private collection

"Concentration before a jumping into deep blue sea" Isabelle Joubert

Isabelle Joubert is a French painter, working and living in Nantes. The pictures from photos of fashion, advertising or models are the main and the original inspiration for her. After she finds in magazines the suitable photographic material, then she combines with her imagination the pieces to create the final image she wants. After connecting the pieces all together Isabelle adds acrylics, pigments, ink, and sometimes watercolor for patina. Starting from something existing is a sort of constraint which release her creativity. She usually works on series of about 10 artworks and then decides to explore new subjects. Her entire work is permeated by a positive aura and energy with an intense female element in conjunction with nature. Her globetrotter pictures inspire us and in turn take us to beautiful worlds with a variety of colors and optimism. She exhibited mostly in France but also in Switzerland and London. More on Isabelle Joubert

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #283

André Brasilier, (B. 1929)

Cavalcade au ciel rose/ Cavalcade in the pink sky, c. 2010

Oil on canvas

65.2 x 46.2 cm., 25 11/16 x 18 3/16 in.

Private collection

Andre Brasilier, French (1929 - ) was born into an artistic family in 1929, Brasilier has spent more than half a century creating canvasses that are a blend of abstraction, expressionism, and something distinctly his own. His works often feature themes and motifs like horses, nature, music, and women. Brasilier’s art is known around the world, from Japan to the United States. He was recently the subject of an exhibition/retrospective at St. Petersburg, Russia’s renowned Hermitage Museum. More on Andre Brasilier

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01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #282

Geoff Hunt PPRSMA (born 1948)

H.M.S. Trusty in English Harbour, Antigua

Lithograph

21" x 17"

Private collection

HMS Trusty (1782) was a fourth rate launched in 1782, used as a troopship from 1799 and a prison ship from 1809, and broken up in 1815. Trusty served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801.

The 50-gun ship Trusty takes on stores, while to the right a sloop is careened for attention. Fifty-gun ships were too small for battleships and too slow and unweatherly for anything else, but they did have two gun decks and twenty-four pounder cannon, and so usefully filled a niche as overseas and flotilla flagships. Some were built as late as 1814. More about this work

Geoff Hunt PPRSMA (born 1948) is a British maritime artist and former President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Hunt attended Kingston and Epsom Schools of Art, 1966–70, where he studied graphic design. Upon graduation, following a couple of years in advertising, Hunt established himself as a freelance artist and designer. Hunt was Art Editor for the popular Warship quarterly journal, from its inception in 1977 until 1979.

In February 2007, Hunt was asked by Rear-Admiral John Lippiett, Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust to paint an artist’s reconstruction of Henry VIII’s infamous flagship. Hunt accepted the commission, finally completing the painting in January 2009 after hours of extensive and meticulous research. An article by Hunt recounting the experience can be found in the Shipwright 2010 annual.

Hunt’s illustrations adorn The Frigate Surprise: The Design, Construction and Careers of Jack Aubrey’s Favourite Command (2008), which he co-authored with respected maritime historian, Brian Lavery. Aubrey’s creator Patrick O’Brian has proclaimed that ‘Geoff Hunt’s pictures, perfectly accurate in period and detail, but very far from merely representational, are often suffused with a light reminiscent of Canaletto.’

Hunt lives in Wimbledon with his wife and two children. Befitting his muse, Hunt’s studio is situated on the site of Merton Place, Admiral Nelson’s house. More on Geoff Hunt

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