01 Marine Painting - Robert Russ' Boats in the Mist, With Footnotes, #323

Robert Russ, Austrian, 1847-1922

Boats in the Mist, c. 1913

Oil over traces of pencil on board

14 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches (35.9 x 28.9 cm)

Private collection

Sold for $1,700 USD in June 2022

Robert Russ (1847, Vienna-1922, Vienna) was best known for watercolors, architectural views, urban genre scenes and landscapes with figures painted in the pure, classical style. Russ was born into a family of artists - both his father, Franz Russ and brother, the portrait and genre painter Franz Seraph Russ.

He began studying at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Albert Zimmermann, who headed the department of landscape art. Among his colleagues were Emil Jakob Schindler, Eugen Jettel und Rudolf Ribarz. Robert exhibited during his studies at the Vienna Academy and the Austrian Art Association. From 1868 he was among the members of the Wien Künstlerhaus (Vienna art exhibition building).

In 1871, Russ started teaching landscape painting at the Vienna Academy. Winning the Reichl Prize in 1880, Russ was elected an honorary member of the Vienna Academy by 1881.

Robert Russ drew inspiration for his work from rich Austrian and Italian landscapes and is credited for having a profound influence on Austrian landscape painting in the last third of the 19th century before his death in 1922.

His works hang at the Villa Borghese and Gardens in Rome, in Gratz, Vienna and many other museums around Europe. More on Robert Russ

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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, William Bradley Lamond's Carting Seaweed, With Footnotes, #323

William Bradley Lamond (1857–1924)

Carting Seaweed, c. 1906

Oil on canvas

H 35.9 x W 53.7 cm

Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection

William Bradley Lamond RBA (1857–1924) was a Scottish painter, born at Newtyle, Angus. He had no formal art training and worked for the Caledonian Railway company for many years. He initially specialised in portraits and later worked on landscapes which have been described as "vigorous impressionistic scenes in oil – with a strong use of colour". He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1906, and exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy and Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. More on William Bradley Lamond

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