Marine Art: 2025

01 Painting - Marine Art, Nicholas Takis' Harbor Scene, with Footnotes, #325

Nicholas Takis, New York (1903 - 1965)

Harbor Scene, c. 1963

Oil On Masonite Board

15 3/8"H X 19 1/2"W

Private collection

Sold for $225 in Jun 2022

"Although Nicholas Takis enjoyed all of the luxuries of a millionaire's son only a few years ago and today is selling his paintings for what he can get, the change in his fortune doesn't bother him. He's as "happy now as I ever was," Evening Journal, 1930

Nicholas Takis (1903-64) was born in 1903 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1920s growing up. Key artistic developments that had been established in the earlier part of the 20th century continued to be worked on during the 1920s and 1930s. During this period the careers of many inspiring and pioneering artists began to flourish, yet at the same time there was an atmosphere of consideration and solemnity following the horrors of the First World War. Major shifts in politics were taking place worldwide, and Marxism took a strong hold as an ideology amongst artist groups and communities. Due to its cultural importance, Surrealism spread as an ideology on an international scale, and became the most prominent theme of the pictorial arts in the 1920s.

The Bauhaus movement developed during this time and focused on a unification of all modes of art, working towards the idea of the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’. The liberal politics of the Weimar Republic in Germany empowered this movement to blossom and flourish and develop further. The leading focus for art during this time was on Freudian theory and the human subconscious, and these ideas were best portrayed by artists including Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Breton, Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux, whilst in Paris, artists such as Brancusi, Modigliani and Soutine developed methods of art which were vivid and dynamic. More on Nicholas Takis

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01 Marine Painting, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen's Portrait of the Fluminense - With Footnotes, #369

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen, (Danish/American, 1850-1921)

Portrait of the Fluminense

Oil on canvas

22 x 36in (56 x 91.5cm)

Private collection

Sold for $2,400 USD in Feb 2020

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November 2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels". He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where he attended the Royal Academy of Design before heading across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in the United States in August 1873 and settled in West Hoboken, New Jersey (now Union City, New Jersey), across the Hudson River from Manhattan and New York Harbor. Jacobsen got his start painting pictures of ships on safes, and as his reputation grew, he was asked to do portraits of ships by their owners, captains and crew members, with many of his works sold for five dollars.

Jacobsen painted more than 6,000 portraits ofAntonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen's Portrait of the Fluminenses, making him "the most prolific of marine artists". Many of his commissions came from sea captains, and Jacobsen was chosen both for the accuracy of his work and his low fee. More Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen

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01 Photograph - Marine Art, Michael Ancher's Three fishermen from Skagen hauling in their net, With Footnotes, #322

Michael Ancher (b. Bornholm 1849, d. Skagen 1927)

View of Skagen Beach with fishermen hauling in the fishing-nets

Oil on canvas

88 x 125 cm.

Private collection

Estimated for kr300,000 DKK - kr500,000 DKK in Jun 2012

Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 – 19 September 1927) was a Danish realist artist. He is remembered above all for his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Ancher was born on the island of Bornholm. He attended school in Rønne but was unable to complete his secondary education as his father ran into financial difficulties. In 1866, he met the painters Theodor Philipsen and Vilhelm Groth. Impressed with his own early work, they encouraged him to take up painting as a profession. In 1871, he spent a short period at C.V Nielsen's art school as a preliminary to joining the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen later in the year. Although he spent some time at the academy, he left in 1875 without graduating.

He achieved his artistic breakthrough in 1879 with the painting Vil han klare pynten (Will He Round the Point?). Michael Ancher's works depict Skagen's heroic fishermen and their dramatic experiences at sea. More on Michael Peter Ancher

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01 Painting - Marine Art, C. F. Sørensen's Navy with a convoy of Danish warships, With Footnotes, #320

C. F. Sørensen (b. Samsø 1818, d. Copenhagen 1879)

A convoy of Danish warships, c. 1873

Oil on canvas

41×63.5 cm.

Private collection

Danish warships may have been part of convoys during wartime or in other conflicts. Convoys are groups of ships that travel together, often protected by larger or more heavily armed ships...

Carl Frederik Sørensen (8 February 1818, Besser, Samsø – 24 January 1879, Copenhagen) was a Danish artist who specialized in marine painting. His paintings not only attracted customers in Denmark but also in the courts of St Petersburg, London and Athens.

Sørensen attended the Danish Academy from 1843 to 1846. He took part in the decoration of the Thorvaldsen Museum in 1844. He studied perspective under Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg at the end of 1845. In 1846, he travelled to the Mediterranean, in 1853–54 he visited Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and England. Almost every year he went on sea voyages. He took a special interest in the weather and its effects on the sea, developing his own recognizable style. He also painted more idyllic scenes, full of charm and atmosphere. His seascapes won him widespread popularity, especially those he painted under the First Schleswig War when he sailed with the Navy around Helgoland (1849) and in the Baltic (1850) where he depicted the Danish fleet in combat. More on Carl Frederik Sørensen

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02 Marine Paintings, Richard Hayley Lever's Fishing Boats at St. Ives, With Footnotes, #324

Richard Hayley Lever (American, 1876-1958)

Fishing Boats at St. Ives

Watercolor and gouache on paper

11 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (28.5 x 36.7 cm)

Private collection

Sold for $950 USD in April 2023

St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne 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 seaside resort. St Ives has also become renowned for its number of artists. More on St Ives

Richard Hayley Lever (American, 1876-1958)

Gloucester Fishing Schooners

Watercolor on paper

15 3/8 x 19 3/4 in. (39.0 x 50.0 cm)

Private collection

Sold for $4,500 in May 2022

The Gloucester fishing schooner, 123 feet, 3 inches over all, is one of the few remaining vessels of her type in the USA. They fished the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and Georges Bank outside of Cape Cod and were some of the fastest and ablest fishing vessels in the world. More on The Gloucester fishing schooner

Richard Hayley Lever, (b Adelaide, Australia 1876; d Mount Vernon, New Hampshire 1958) Australian-born American painter. In 1900 Hayley Lever traveled to England to study art, and shortly thereafter studied at the Academie Julian in Paris where Van Gogh was a major influence. Around 1912 Lever moved to America and began gaining wide recognition as an important artist. Lever is known for his marine scenes, and once in America he maintained a studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts to paint coastal life. From 1919 to 1931 Lever taught at the Art Students League New York City; and in 1933 was made full Academician at the National Academy in New York City. In 1935 Lever became the director of the Studio Arts Club in Mount Vernon, New York. During his lifetime he was awarded numerous medals for his artistic achievements including gold and silver from the National Academy. More on Richard Hayley Lever

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01 Marine Painting, Joseph Milne's Tayport, With Footnotes, #324

Joseph Milne (British, 1857-1911)

Tayport, c. 1891

Oil on canvas

30.5 x 45.7 cm. (12 x 18 in.)

Private collection

Sold for £956.25 in May 2022

Tayport, also known as Ferry-Port on Craig, is a town and burgh, and parish, in the county of Fife, Scotland, acting as a commuter town for Dundee.

Tayport lies close to the north east tip of Fife. To the north it looks across the River Tay to Broughty Ferry and Broughty Castle. To the east is the vast Tentsmuir Nature Reserve, an area of forested dunes measuring some 3 km from east to west and 6 km from north to south and edged by wide sands that continue all the way round to the mouth of the River Eden. More on Tayport

Joseph (Joe) Milne (1857-1911) was born in Edinburgh in 1857, the elder brother of the painter William Watt Milne (1869-1949) and the father of John Maclauchlan Milne (1886-1957) qv. He painted mainly in oils, but occasionally in watercolours, producing land and seascapes which were notable for their strong, bright tones. When working in watercolour, he made free use of bodycolour. Although he lived much of his life in Edinburgh, he worked for a time in Dundee and also in Ayrshire. He exhibited extensively at both the Royal Scottish Academy, from 1877 until 1902 and the Glasgow Institute from 1880-1902; he also had 7 works shown in London, at the RA between 1887 and 1908. Early titles often had a genre content. Favourite subjects were the coasts of Scotland and working rivers, particularly “The Silvery Tay”. Joseph Milne died in Edinburgh in 1911, at the age of 53. More on Joseph (Joe) Milne

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