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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