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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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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #79

Peter van de Velde, (1634–after 1723)

The burning of the English fleet off Chatham, 20 June 1667, circa 1670 (1667-1700)

Oil on panel

73 × 108 cm (28.7 × 42.5 in)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, sometimes called the Battle of the Medway, Raid on Chatham or the Battle of Chatham, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English battleships at a time when most were virtually unmanned and unarmed, laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of Upnor Castle and a barrier chain called the "Gillingham Line" were supposed to protect the English ships.

The Dutch, under nominal command of Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, over several days bombarded and then captured the town of Sheerness, sailed up the Thames estuary to Gravesend, then sailed into the River Medway to Chatham and Gillingham, where they engaged fortifications with cannon fire, burned three capital ships and ten lesser naval vessels, and captured and towed away two ships of the line: HMS Unity and HMS Royal Charles.

Politically, the raid was disastrous for King Charles' war plans and led to a quick end to the war and a favourable peace for the Dutch. It was one of the worst defeats in the Royal Navy's history. More on the Battle of Chatham

Peter van de Velde or Peter van den Velde (1634 – after 1723), was a Flemish Baroque marine painter who lived well into the 18th century. He was born in Antwerp where he became a master of the Guild of St. Luke in 1654. Between 1666 and 1680 he is recorded in the guild as having pupils. Between 1668 and 1675 he produced 50 paintings for the Antwerp art dealers Forchondt, who exported these to Vienna.

Considering the great age that this painter is supposed to have reached, it is possible that the name Peter van de Velde refers actually to two painters, maybe a father and son pair who signed with the same name. A son of Peter van de Velde was baptized in Antwerp in 1687. He is known for marines in stormy seas.

Peter van de Velde died some time after 1723, the latest date discovered on one of his paintings. More on Peter van de Velde

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #73

Franz Hünten Hamburg, 1822 - Hamburg 1887

The W. Schernikau off Heligoland, c. 1860

Oil/canvas

50,5 x 71,5 cm

Private collection

Heligoland is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were at one time Danish and later British possessions.

The islands are located in the Heligoland Bight are in the southeastern corner of the North Sea. They are the only German islands not in the immediate vicinity of the mainland. They lie approximately 69 kilometres from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the River Elbe. More on Heligoland

Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten (born May 2, 1822 in Hamburg , † March 2, 1887 ibid) was a German marine painter of the Düsseldorf School .

After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, Hünten became a student of Friedrich Heimerdinger in Hamburg. Thanks to a scholarship, he attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , where he was a student in the landscape class of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in the years 1847/1848 . He was a private pupil of the slightly older Düsseldorf marine painter Hermann Mevius , with whom he went on study trips to the North Sea coast. In 1850 he returned to Hamburg. From there he undertook study trips to Scandinavia, England, Scotland, the Atlantic and the Orient. In 1887 he died in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . More on Franz Johann Wilhelm Hünten

01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #67

Kasia Derwinska, Spain

He promised to come back

Photography

Size: 15.7 H x 15.7 W x 0.4 in

Private collection

Kasia Derwinska "Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life's path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that dreams are the most simbolic language of our subconscious, a guide to navigate in the modern world. I am autodidactic and I don´t recognize myself as a photographer. I use photography as a tool, like a brush for painting or an instrument to play music. My work is an attempt to connect substantiality of the world that surrounds us with elusiveness of feelings and thoughts. For that reason I describe my creations as building a bridge between the visible and the invisible. My works are divided in four basic series: fairytales and fantasies, conceptual black and white, night dreams, and the color serie called "who sings, frightens away his fears" More on Kasia Derwinska

03 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #59

Félix Vallotton, (1865–1925)

La plage à Honfleur/ The beach at Honfleur, c. 1919

Oil on canvas,

54 x 81 cm.

Private collection

Honfleur is a commune in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre. Its inhabitants are called Honfleurais.

It is especially known for its old, beautiful picturesque port, characterized by its houses with slate-covered frontages, painted many times by artists, including in particular Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind, forming the école de Honfleur (Honfleur school) which contributed to the appearance of the Impressionist movement. The Sainte-Catherine church, which has a bell tower separate from the principal building, is the largest church made out of wood in France. More on Honfleur

Félix Vallotton, (1865–1925), see below

Eugène Galien-Laloue, (1854-1941)

Quais de Paris, Oil, c. 1920

Oil on canvas

44 x 65.5 cm

Private collection

The painting shows a part of the Seine dockside with fishermen, merchants, ships and the cityscape in the background

Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses. Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th-century art, but for the actual history, which they document. His work can be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Louvier; Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle; Mulhouse, France.

A typical Galien-Laloue painting depicts sidewalks and avenues crowded with people or tourists mingling before the capital's monuments. He also painted the landscapes of Normandy and Seine-et-Marne, as well as military scenes he was commissioned to produce in 1914. The Republic of France selected Galien-Laloue to work as a 'war artist,' both during the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, chiefly in watercolor. More on Eugène Galien-Laloue

Félix Vallotton, (1865–1925)

The mistress and the maid, c. 1896

Oil on cardboard

52 × 66 cm (20.5 × 26 in)

Private collection

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was associated with the French post-impressionist group Les Nabis. He began his career as a painter, but he is best known for his stark black-and-white woodcuts. His scenes, which are often domestic in nature, are marked by simplified details and undifferentiated areas of shading. Vallotton was influenced by the works of Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein, which he saw in the Louvre as a young art student, as well as by Ukiyo-e Japanese prints, an Edo period art form that centered on depictions of cosmopolitan life. In his reductive woodcuts, Vallatton prefigured the visual sobriety of such disparate artists as August Sander and Edward Hopper. More on Félix Edouard Vallotton

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #63

MARSHALL JOHNSON, JR, (American, 1850-1921)

Two Ships

Oil on canvas

23 x 28 in., frame: 30 x 35 in.

Private collection

Marshall Johnson, (American, 1850-1921), is renowned for his atmospheric, dramatic marine paintings that depict ships at sea with realistic detail. The artist was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1850 and died there in 1921.

In 1868, Johnson was a sailor aboard the Sunbeam, bound for South America. The ship burned at sea in 1871 and the artist was one of 12 survivors who was rescued off the coast of South America. He soon returned to Boston, where he studied at the Lowell Institute and with noted marine painter William E. Norton. From 1887-1890, he studied in Holland, France and England. When he returned to America, he opened a professional studio on Boston's India Wharf.

Johnson was a member of the Boston Art Club, the Copley Society of Boston (1900) and the Jordan Art Galleries of Boston. In 1923, the Vose Galleries of Boston gave him a Memorial Exhibition. More on Marshall Johnson

01 Classic Works of Marine Art, WILLIAM EDWARD NORTON's Fish Sale on the Beach - With Footnotes, #64

WILLIAM EDWARD NORTON, (American, 1843-1916)

Fish Sale on the Beach, Schevinger

Oil on panel

34 1/2 x 48 in.

Private collection

Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands, a modern seaside resort with a long, sandy beach, an esplanade, a pier, and a lighthouse. It's harbour is used for both fishing and tourism.

The first inhabitants may have been Anglo-Saxons. Other historians favour a Scandinavian origin. Fishing was the main source of food and income.

The Battle of Scheveningen was fought between English and Dutch fleets off the coast of the village on 10 August 1653. Thousands of people gathered on the shore to watch. More on Scheveningen

William Edward Norton (1843-1916), American. Born in Boston to a New England family of shipbuilders, Norton's interest in ships led him initially to a career at sea. After his sea service, he enrolled at both Harvard Medical School and the Lowell Institute, where his interest in art led him to study under the master American landscape painter, George Inness.

Later opening a studio in Boston, Norton enjoyed immediate success. From the sale of his paintings he financed further art studies in Europe. While painting in London, he found wide acceptance in many of the major European galleries, including the Paris salon, the most prestigious venue for an artist of his day to exhibit. He was awarded an honorable mention by the salon in 1900.

Returning to America he continued to receive strong recognition, representing the United States at the International Exposition of 1900 and winning the coveted Osorne Prize for marine painting in 1905 & 1906. Today, this important American artist's work continues to attract connoisseurs of quality marine paintings in both Europe and America. More William Edward Norton

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04 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #63

Manner of Willem van de Velde

Ships in Calm Water

Oil on canvas

24 x 26 1/4 inches (61 x 66.7 cm)

Private collection

Willem van de Velde, 1633 - 1707, was the leading Dutch marine painter of the later 17th century. His later paintings shaped the development of seascape painting in England in the 18th century. They are mainly representations of particular vessels and naval events.

Willem van de Velde was born in Leiden. He was the son of the painter Willem van de Velde the Elder, and the brother of Adriaen van de Velde, who was a landscape and figure painter. He was probably trained by his father, who was famous for his accurate monochrome representations of ships on panel. He was also trained by Simon de Vlieger.

Van de Velde was active in Amsterdam, where the family settled, until 1672 when as a consequence of the economic collapse brought about by the French invasion he was forced to move to England to earn his living. By 1674 he and his father had entered the service of Charles II, and he had the use of a studio in the Queen's House at Greenwich, before moving to Westminster in 1691. More on Willem van de Velde

Haynes King, (United Kingdom, 1831-1904)

A young fisher girl waiting by a stone wall and gazing out at the ocean with her fishing gear by her side, c. 1884

Oil on board

12 3/8" H x 7 1/2" W

Private collection

Haynes King (December 1831 – 17 May 1904) was an English genre painter. Apart from genre subjects, he painted interiors, landscapes, and coast scenes with figures. King was born at Barbados in December 1831, son of Robert M. King by his wife Maria. Coming to London in 1854, he became a student at Leigh's (afterwards Heatherley's) Academy in Newman Street, London. He first exhibited in 1857 at the Society of British Artists, of which he was elected a member in 1864 ; many of his works appeared at its exhibitions, and forty-eight were shown at the Royal Academy between 1860 and 1904. He worked at one period with Thomas Faed whose influence is seen in his work. More on Haynes King

Xue Jian Xin, Chinese (1954 - )

Boat in Village Canal , c. 1990

Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.

22 x 27 in. (55.88 x 68.58 cm)

Private collection

Xue Jian Xin, Chinese (1954 - ) In 1988, Xue came to the United States as a visiting student at Bard College N.Y. where he received his M.F.A. in 1991. Inspired by the idea of studying natural light in American settings, he began painting the surrounding landscapes and cityscapes. This idea grew out of a great admiration for the works of Monet, Renoir and Sisley who also display a great feel for the play of light. In his works, Xue demonstrates his passion for representing the changes in natural light throughout the day. Here the viewer can see the variety and complexity of the artist's vision. In his paintings he shows a startling freedom in his handling of the paint. He has no fear of the fluttering of the brushstroke against grounds of nearly opposing lightness and hue. All parts of the paintings are harmonized despite polarities in brightness or color. This harmonization combines with his almost photographic realism to bring focus to every one of his paintings. Xue is a man of incredible skill and equal subtlety, creating works which evoke feelings of nostalgia and wonder in his collectors. More on Xue Jian Xin

Bassari

Seaside One Boat, Circa 1990

Oil on Canvas

Size: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Private collection

The artist Bassari was born in Galicia in northwest Spain. He studied art at Santiago de Compostela and subsequently became an art instructor at Peleteiro College.

In the late 1950's Bassari moved to Madrid to study at the Circulo de Bellas Artes. Here he spent several years training. This included concentrations in architectural renderings~ map topography and technical drawing. His teaching enabled him to obtain several positions as a set designer for the television, theater and motion picture industries.

During the 1950's and early 60's, Bassari traveled extensively through Europe and North Africa, honing his skills. In Paris and Rome he studied techniques in 19th Century Romanticism and French Impressionism. Then he furthered his education with independent studies of Cubism, Faubism, Expressionism and Abstract art.

In the late 1960' s he came to the United States to study at the Art Student's League and Pan America Art School in New York After graduation he was offered a position as a teacher of fine art from 1970-74. Later he was an instructor of commercial art at the Pels School from 1975 through 1976. More on The artist Bassari

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06 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #61

Montague Dawson, 1890–1973

UP SHE RISES - THE SHIP NORTH AMERICA

Oil on canvas

28 1/4 x 42 in

Private collection

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

John Cleveley the Elder, SOUTHWARK, LONDON 1712 - 1777

DEPTFORD SHIPYARD, LONDON, c. 1755.

Oil on canvas

50 3/8 by 60 3/4 in.; 128 by 154.2.
Private collection

This painting shows a two-decker – probably of about 64 guns – being launched or, more accurately, ‘floated-out’ from the Deptford double dry-dock (which could accommodate two ships end to end). It is flying launching flags, including the fouled anchor of the Admiralty and the Royal Standard. To the right two other ships are under construction on building slips, and a yacht can be seen beyond, moored beside timber sheds in the small Deptford wet dock. The large building at center is the Grand Storehouse (begun in 1712), while at far left is the Master Shipwright's house of 1704, which still stands today. Vessels lying off, in the river, include official barges, a cutter-rigged Admiralty yacht at center, and another two-decker (also of about 64 guns) at far right, riding high since it is not carrying its armament. The identity of the vessel being launched is uncertain and it may be the Kent, the Berwick or the Hampton Court. More on this painting

Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, in what is now the London Borough of Lewisham, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It built and maintained warships for 350 years, and many significant events and ships have been associated with it.

Founded by Henry VIII in 1513, the dockyard was the most significant royal dockyard of the Tudor period and remained one of the principal naval yards for three hundred years. Important new technological and organisational developments were trialled here, and Deptford came to be associated with the great mariners of the time. The yard expanded rapidly throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, encompassing a large area and serving for a time as the headquarters of naval administration, and became the Victualling Board's main depot. Tsar Peter the Great visited the yard officially incognito in 1698 to learn shipbuilding techniques. Reaching its zenith in the eighteenth century, it built and refitted exploration ships used by Cook, Vancouver and Bligh, and warships which fought under Nelson. More on Deptford Dockyard

John Cleveley the Elder (c.1712 – 21 May 1777) , see below

John Cleveley the Elder (circa 1712 – 1777)

The "Royal George" at Deptford Showing the Launch of "The Cambridge", c. 1757

Oil on canvas

1,219 × 1,879 mm (47.99 × 73.98 in)

National Maritime Museum

A fictitious combination of two events set in Deptford Dockyard in southeast London, England, UK: the launch of the H.M.S. Cambridge (left) in Deptford on 21 October 1755, and the H.M.S. Royal George (right) which was actually launched at Woolwich Dockyard the following year, 1757. More on this painting

John Cleveley the Elder (c.1712 – 21 May 1777) was an English marine artist. Cleveley was born in Southwark. He was not from an artistic background, and his father intended him to follow the family trade of joinery, so he set up as a carpenter or shipwright in around 1742 at the Deptford Dockyard. Continuing his work in that area throughout his life (indeed, he is referred to as ‘carpenter belonging to His Majesty’s Ship Victory, in the pay of His Majesty’s Navy in letters of administration granted by the Admiralty in 1778 to his widow. From about 1745 he also worked as a painter, mostly ship portraits, dockyard scenes of shipbuilding and launches, and some other marine views. They combined his knowledge of shipbuilding with accurate architectural and topographical detail. Apparently mostly self-taught, it is possible that dockyard ship-painters also gave him some training in this area. He toured East Anglia, and produced some paintings from notes made on that trip. More John Cleveley the Elder

FREDERICK McDUFF (American. 1931-2011)
Beach Scene with Figures
Oil on Canvas
16 1/2" by 26"
Private collection

Frederick H. McDuff, (American, b. 1931), was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1931, Interest in painting led him to New York City in the 1950’s. He studied briefly at the Art Students League but found his greatest inspiration in museum masters as Corot and Pissarro. In the early 1960’s he left New York for Washington, D.C. In the 1970’s he encountered the abstract painters, for whom he had previously had little interest, and from there he learned to impart a greater clarity and purity to his work.

McDuff is a contemporary Impressionist. Nature, therefore, plays an important role in what he expresses. Beach scenes and landscapes bathed in a delicate light and stilled by an ethereal calmness are among his subjects. A romanticist, McDuff takes us to far away places in time and space. His is a world devoid of harsh realities, a serene place where gentility is the essence of gracious living. More on Frederick H. McDuff

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919)

Figures on the Beach, c. 1890

Oil on canvas

20 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. (52.7 x 64.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Probably painted in 1890 on the Cote d’Azur in southern France, this sun-filled painting shows two female figures at the beach. The seated figure is shown in profile, her right hand holding a parasol on the sand. She exchanges a look with the standing figure to her right who holds a basket at her side. The women are joined by a small white dog, and before the water stands a young boy dressed in blue, seemingly throwing an object into the ocean. The standing figure serves as a vertical force which connects the horizontally banded foreground, water, and sky.

The women appear carefree and neither at work nor in the presence of men. Painted later in Renoir’s career, a period at which point the artist expressed skepticism of industrialism and machines, this quiet seascape pays homage to the resplendent beauty of what is ordinary and simple. More on this painting

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–69). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre. MorePierre-Auguste Renoir

NABANITA SAHA, (INDIAN, B.1974)

EXODUS I

Oil on canvas

152cm x 182cm (59.75in x 71.5in)

Private collection

Nabanita Saha gained her B.V.A. from the Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkatta in 1999, and earned an M.F.A. in Graphics from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda.

Throughout her education and career she has been awarded several honours including the 2012 Elizabeth Greenshields Grant from Canada, the 2002 All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society award (State Level), and the National Scholarship 2001 to 2003.

Saha has exhibited extensively in India in both solo and group exhibitions, as well as further afield in Korea and Switzerland. Her work features in collections throughout India and internationally. More on Nabanita Saha