01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #51a

Montague Dawson, RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973)

GLEAMING FOAM, CHARIOT OF FAME

Oil on canvas

61 by 91.5cm., 24 by 36in

Private collection

Chariot of Fame, a handsome clipper of 1639 tons built in America and flying the flag of the famous White Star Company. She had excellent accommodation for passengers, and before she was chartered by the Government to bring troops out to New Zealand to quell the Maori disturbances she had been in the Australian trade. She made several smart passages while in that trade, and on one occasion she did the run from London to Melbourne in 67 days.

the Chariot of Fame arrived in Auckland on January 8, 1864, under command of Captain Clark. After an uneventful passage of 92 days she landed 520 rank and file of the 58th, 70th, 18th, 40th, 57th, and 65th Regiments, and 64 women and 67 children. Many of these men were killed in the Waikato war. During the passage out a private of the 70th was washed overboard and drowned, and there were eight deaths—one adult and seven children.

The year before she was at Auckland the Chariot of Fame visited Lyttelton, where she arrived on January 29, 1863, with 460 passengers, of whom 430 were Government immigrants. She left London on October 29, 1862, and notwith-standing a detention of several days in the Channel she sighted the Snares on the eighty-first day out. On the coast she was further delayed by light winds and calms, and did not reach her destination until the ninety-second day out from the docks. More on Chariot of Fame

It is said that she came to her end in January, 1876, being abandoned when bound from Chincha Islands to Cork. 

Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was a British painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries. Montague was the son of a keen yachtsman and the grandson of the marine painter Henry Dawson (1811–1878), born in Chiswick, London. Much of his childhood was spent on Southampton Water where he was able to indulge his interest in the study of ships. For a brief period around 1910 Dawson worked for a commercial art studio in Bedford Row, London, but with the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Royal Navy. Whilst serving with the Navy in Falmouth he met Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917), who considerably influenced his work. In 1924 Dawson was the official artist for an Expedition to the South Seas by the steam yacht St.George. During the expedition he provided illustrated reports to the Graphic magazine.

After the War, Dawson established himself as a professional marine artist, concentrating on historical subjects and portraits of deep-water sailing ships. During the Second World War, he was employed as a war artist. Dawson exhibited regularly at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, of which he became a member, from 1946 to 1964, and occasionally at the Royal Academy between 1917 and 1936. By the 1930s he was considered one of the greatest living marine artists, whose patrons included two American Presidents, Dwight D Eisenhower and Lyndon B Johnson, as well as the British Royal Family. Also in the 1930s, he moved to Milford-Upon-Sea in Hampshire, living there for many years. Dawson is noted for the strict accuracy in the nautical detail of his paintings which often sell for six figures.

The work of Montague Dawson is represented in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. More on Montague Dawson

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06 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #51b

Edward William Cooke, 1811 - 1880

Brig on Sands: Vessels on the Sands at Hastings

oil on canvas

21 ½ x 30 in. (54.6 x 76.2 cm.)

Private collection

Hastings and the sea. In the 13th century Hastings had suffered over the years from the lack of a natural harbour. Attempts were made to build a stone harbour during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the foundations were destroyed by the sea in terrible storms. The fishing boats were stored on and launched from the beach.

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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04 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #56

J. M. W. Turner,  (1775–1851)

The Fish Market at Hastings Beach, c. 1810

Oil on canvas

Height: 908.05 mm (35.75 in). Width: 1,206.5 mm (47.5 in).

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,  Kansas City, Missouri

Hastings is a town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England. It gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place in 1066. The town later became one of the medieval Cinque Ports, and a popular seaside resort in the 19th century with the coming of the railway. Hastings is a fishing port with a beach-based fishing fleet.

The fishing fleet is Europe's largest beach-launched fishing fleet and has recently won accreditation for its sustainable methods. The fleet has been based on the same beach, below the cliffs at Hastings, for at least 400, possibly 600, years. Its longevity is attributed to the prolific fishing ground of Rye Bay nearby.  More on Hastings

Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. More on Joseph Mallord William Turner

Jean Baptiste Olive, (1848-1936) 

Landing in heavy weather 

Oil on canvas; signed lower left 

23 5/8 x 36 3/16 in.

Private collection

Jean-Baptiste Olive (July 31, 1848- 1936) was a French painter. The son of a wine merchant. Étienne Cornellier, a decorator, encouraged him to register at École des beaux-arts de Marseille. There he received several awards including, in 1871, the live model class's first prize. While training as a decorator, he painted many scenes of Marseille, its Vieux-Port, its islands, and its seashore. In 1874 he travelled to Italy, mainly to Genoa and Venice. He occasionally participated in some of Provence's exhibitions at the time.

From 1874 onward he exhibited repeatedly at Salon de Paris and was awarded several prizes there. In 1881 he became a member of Société des Artistes Français. In 1882 he relocated to Paris. 

In 1930, aged 82, he was awarded the Léon Bonnat prize. More on Jean-Baptiste Olive

Louise d'Aussy Pintaud 

Port of Luerca, 1967 

Oil on canvas 

90 x 59 cm 

Private collection

The main village of Luarca is known locally as the White Village because its gracefulness and tidiness. Luarca was a very important whaling port which brought a lot of wealth to the area. The port of Luarca is the Centre of Giant Squid which is one of the largest and most important collections of cephalopods of the world. Luarca (Valdes) is also home to some of the best beaches in Asturias. More on Port of Luerca

Louise d’Aussy-Pintaud, 1900-1990 was a painter and sculptor. She was born in Bordeaux, France in 1900. Her primary areas of focus were nudes, landscapes, and busts. She exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1934.

D’Aussy-Pintaud began painting under the influence of her grandfather, an avid - albeit amateur - painter. She becam a student of sculptor M. A. Seysse, also in Bordeaux. Later, she would study under painter and mentor Biloul while attending the Gustave Moreau School in Paris.

Her earlier work is her best known, for her ability to observe the naked form in a refined and what has been described as an even chaste manner. D’Aussy-Pintaud’s painting of figures is classic and purist, while the very expressive backgrounds and landscapes are handled with expressionistic vigor.

Her work was exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français between 1934 and 1942. In 1944, D’Aussy-Pintaud would ultimatlely settle with her husband in the city of Ciboure (Lapurdi) until the time of her death in 1990. More on Louise d’Aussy-Pintaud

Augustus Koopman, (American, 1869-1914)

Le petit bateau à la voile/ The small sailing boat, c. 1904

Oil on canvas

32 x 39-1/2 inches (81.3 x 100.3 cm)

Private collection

Augustus B. Koopman (1869-1914), American,  is known for painting scenes of France and the American West. As part of a large community of American expatriate artists in turn-of-the century Paris, Koopman spent a great deal of time at the coast in Etaples near Belgium, where the great Eugene Boudin frequented. It is along this coast that Koopman painted many scenes of the marine activities and people at their roles.

The first steps of his art education took him through the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and then on to several Parisian groups. While in France, he did travel widely to other countries, but he recorded his belief that the Boulogne coast of Northern France was the most picturesque in the world. He would rather late in his cut-short life and career, visit the Grand Canyon, and his painting of it is in the Santa Fe Railroad Collection, while several of his images are in the collections of the Congressional Library and New York Public libraries.  More on Augustus Koopman

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