01 Marine Painting, Jules Achille Noël's Elegant figures on the beach, Tréport, with Footnotes #285

Jules Achille Noël, (FRENCH, 1815-1881)

Elegant figures on the beach, Tréport, c. 1875

Oil on panel

16.3 x 21.8cm (6 7/16 x 8 9/16in)

Oil on canvas

Estimated for £6,000 - £8,000 in June 2020

Le Tréport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-eastern France.

A small fishing port and light industrial town situated in the Pays de Caux, some 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Dieppe. The mouth of the Bresle river meets the English Channel here, in between the high chalk cliffs and the pebbly beach. More on Le Tréport 

Jules Achille Noël, born Louis Assez Noël (24 February 1815, Quimper – 26 March 1881, Algiers) was a French landscape and maritime painter who worked primarily in Brittany and Normandy.

His family originally came from Lorraine. Some sources say that he was born there in 1810. He studied at the "Académie de Peinture et de Dessin" (Académie Charioux) in Brest. Afterwards, he went to Paris to seek his fortune and came under the influence of his fellow Breton painter Pierre-Julien Gilbert. After four years of struggling to earn his living, he returned to Brittany to teach drawing in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Lorient and Nantes.

He had begun to participate in the Salon in 1840 and, in 1845, was one of several artists commissioned to provide engraved illustrations for a book on prisons. Eventually, his work attracted the attention of Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, who obtained him a position as a Professor of Design at the Lycée Henri-IV, where he would teach from 1847 until his retirement in 1879. Albert Lynch and Félix Buhot were among his best-known students there.

During school vacations he would return to paint in Brittany. He was in ill-health at the time of his retirement, so he went to live with his daughter and her husband in Algeria and died there. More on Jules Achille Noël

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01 Marine Painting, Ester Almqvist's Gothenburg Harbour with Boats in the Ice, With Footnotes #384

Ester Almqvist (Swedish, 1869 - 1934)

Gothenburg Harbour with Boats in the Ice, c. 1916

Oil on canvas

62,50 x 89,50 cm

Gothenburg Museum of Art 

The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg is the largest port in the Nordic countries. The port is situated on both sides of the estuary of Göta älv in Gothenburg. The north shore, Norra Älvstranden, is on Hisingen island and the south shore, Södra Älvstranden, is on the mainland. It is a combined river and coastal port. More on the Port of Gothenburg

Ester Dorothea Almqvist (3 November 1869 – 11 June 1934) was a Swedish artist who was a pioneer of Expressionist painting in Sweden.

Almqvist was born in Bromma but spent her childhood in Stockholm, where her parents taught in a school for Christian missionaries. She is the female artist who is represented with most artworks in the collections of Malmö Konstmuseum, a total of 2,083 pieces. She had specified in her will that her collection of oil and watercolour paintings, charcoal, pastel and ink drawings, graphic pages and sketchbooks should be donated to that particular museum. Her father, a priest, died when she was nine. Her mother worked as a private tutor and book seller for the sake of providing for her family. Almqvist was born with a deformed spine that limited her mobility throughout her life but also gave her freedom to study art instead of being confined to housework.

She attended the Technical School in Stockholm, graduating in 1891, and she studied art privately with the painter Gustaf Cederström. She continued her art studies at the Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg (1892–1893) and then at the Konstnärsförbundets skola in Stockholm (1894–1895). Her teachers included Per Hasselberg and Bruno Liljefors. While in school, she supported herself by commercial book illustration work. Later, she was a member of the women's association Nya Idun. More on Ester Dorothea Almqvist

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01 Marine Painting - Vasilios Chatzis' Byzantine naval battle, with Footnotes #386

Vasilios Chatzis (Greek, 1870-1915)

Byzantine naval battle

Oil on card

25 x 22.5 cm

Private collection

Sold for £6,312.50 in May 2020

"Two years ago, Vassilios Hatzis undertook to bring back to life an entire historical era, and since then has been engaged in the depiction of the Byzantine fleet. Since there are no previous studies in this field to assist him in his work, his historical research has been, and still is, rather painstaking." More on this painting

Vasileios Hatzis or Vassileios Chatzis (1870 – 1915) was a Greek painter who was best known for his seascapes.

Vasileios Hatzis was born in 1870 in Kastoria. His family was involved in shipping, and he spent his childhood in Patras. From 1886 to 1893 he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts . During the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 the government assigned him to the navy, where he portrayed action scenes of the Greek fleet. He died in Athens in 1915

Hatzis is primarily known for his seascapes, but also painted landscapes and genre scenes from the life of farmers and fishermen. His work includes both academic and en plein air styles. The influence of impressionism may be detected in his work. He first exhibited in Athens in 1899, and his works were shown in group exhibitions in Athens (1902, 1907, 1909, 1910) and Alexandria (1903, 1906). A solo exhibition was held soon after his death at the Zappeion hall in Athens that showed more than 260 works. More on Vasileios Hatzis 

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