Marine Art

01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #102

Henry Cruse Murphy, (American, 1886-1931)

Sails of Sunset

Oil on board

24 x 15.5 in.

Private collection

Henry Cruse Murphy, Jr., (1886-1931), was born February 26, 1886 in Brooklyn, NY. He was a member of one of Brooklyn's oldest families. In 1904 he graduated from a Brooklyn public high school, after which he attended Columbia University School of Applied Science for a degree in Electrical Engineering, Class of 1908.

Thanks to his natural drawing talent he became popular among classmates as a gifted cartoonist. He contributed illustrations to the student newspaper, of which he eventually became the art editor. Encouraged by these achievements he decided to pursue an artistic career. In September 1907 he transferred to the School of Fine Arts.

In the summer of 1909 he moved to a working class tenement at 425 West 26th Street, and at the same time opened an art studio, where he struggled to find work as a newspaper cartoonist.

By 1910 he was living back at home with his parents in Brooklyn, while spending the warmer months working as a landscape artist with oil paints and watercolors at his family's country home in Indian Chase Park near Greenwich, CT.

On February 10, 1918 he reported for draft registration in the Great War, he was not selected for military service.

Throughout the 1920s he painted many cover illustrations for pulp magazines. In 1924 he painted the historic World War battle scene of the U.S. Army 27th Division breaking through the Hindenburg Line. The painting is in the permanent collection of the National Museum in Washington, DC.

Henry C. Murphy, Jr. died of cancer in Greenwich, CT, at the age of forty-five on January 1, 1931. More on Henry Cruse Murphy

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #101

Henry Cruse Murphy, (American, 1886-1931)

On Deck, Treasure Island interior illustration

Oil on canvas

26 x 20 in.

Private collector

Henry Cruse Murphy, Jr., (1886-1931), was born February 26, 1886 in Brooklyn, NY. He was a member of one of Brooklyn's oldest families. In 1904 he graduated from a Brooklyn public high school, after which he attended Columbia University School of Applied Science for a degree in Electrical Engineering, Class of 1908.

Thanks to his natural drawing talent he became popular among classmates as a gifted cartoonist. He contributed illustrations to the student newspaper, of which he eventually became the art editor. Encouraged by these achievements he decided to pursue an artistic career. In September 1907 he transferred to the School of Fine Arts.

In the summer of 1909 he moved to a working class tenement at 425 West 26th Street, and at the same time opened an art studio, where he struggled to find work as a newspaper cartoonist.

By 1910 he was living back at home with his parents in Brooklyn, while spending the warmer months working as a landscape artist with oil paints and watercolors at his family's country home in Indian Chase Park near Greenwich, CT.

On February 10, 1918 he reported for draft registration in the Great War, he was not selected for military service.

Throughout the 1920s he painted many cover illustrations for pulp magazines. In 1924 he painted the historic World War battle scene of the U.S. Army 27th Division breaking through the Hindenburg Line. The painting is in the permanent collection of the National Museum in Washington, DC.

Henry C. Murphy, Jr. died of cancer in Greenwich, CT, at the age of forty-five on January 1, 1931. More on Henry Cruse Murphy

01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #126

NORMAN LINDSAY 1879-1969
Boarded, c. 1954
Watercolour on paper
51.5 x 40 cm

Private collection

Naval boarding is to come up against, or alongside, an enemy ship to attack by placing combatants aboard the enemy ship. The goal of boarding is to capture, or destroy, the enemy vessel. Larger ships carried specially trained and equipped sailors, or marines, as boarders. More on Boarding

Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer.

In 1895, Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on a local magazine with his older brother Lionel. In 1901, he and Lionel, his older brother, joined the staff of the Sydney Bulletin, a weekly newspaper, magazine and review. His association there would last fifty years.

Lindsay travelled to Europe in 1909. In Naples he began 100 pen-and-ink illustrations for Petronius' Satyricon. Visits to the then South Kensington Museum where he made sketches of model ships in the Museum's collection stimulated a lifelong interest in ship models. The Lindsays returned to Australia in 1911.

Lindsay wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding which was published in 1918. Many of his novels have a frankness and vitality that matches his art. In 1938, Lindsay published Age of Consent.

Cartoons, by Lindsay, were used both for recruitment and to promote conscription during World War I.

Lindsay also worked as an editorial cartoonist, notable for often illustrating the racist and right-wing political leanings that dominated The Bulletin at that time.

Lindsay influenced numerous artists, notably the illustrators Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta; he was also good friends with Ernest Moffitt. More on Norman Alfred William Lindsay

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #128

Abraham de Verwer, (1600 - 1650)

Sailing Ships in a Bay

Oil on canvas

33 x 42 cm

Private collection

Abraham de Verwer (1585, Haarlem – 1650, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter of cityscapes, (river) landscapes and seascapes. He was also called Abraham de Verweer van Burghstrate. He travelled in northern France and when he returned, he settled in Amsterdam. It is unknown who taught him to paint, but he was noted in his wife's testament in Haarlem in 1607 as a "schrijnwerker" or cabinet-maker, and in 1614 he was noted in an Amsterdam estate inventory as a painter. He travelled in France from 1637-1639. He was the father of the Amsterdam poet Catharina Verwers and the Amsterdam painter Justus de Verwer. More on Abraham de Verwer

01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #127

Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen

Coastal Landscape with a Warship at Anchor

Oil on panel

49.5 x 84.5 cm

Private collection

Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen (c. 1576 – 29 December 1633) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He was born and died in Haarlem. He was the son of a Haarlem captain

He specialized in paintings depicting ships and sea battles, and received orders from the municipal councils of Haarlem and Amsterdam. He painted the most popular picture of the Damiaatjes legend of Haarlem, showing how a Haarlem ship broke the protective chain at Domyat, Egypt during the Fifth Crusade, resulting in an important victory over Islam. This painting was such a success that it was reordered in tapestry form, and both pieces are in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum.

The city of Haarlem archives still hold the original records of the 1629 order to Van Wieringen to make the tapestry, the largest made in the 17th century (10.75 meters long and 2.40 meters high). This tapestry still hangs on the wall of the Haarlem City Hall council meeting room known as the vroedschapskamer, where it was installed. It is on public display once a year on Monument Day. More on Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen

01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #125

Auton Nowak, 1865 - 1932

Gdańsk, A Polish Shipyard

Oil On Canvas

47"H x 37"W

Private collection

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic Sea.

With its origins as a Polish stronghold erected in the 980s, the city's history is complex, with periods of Polish rule, periods of Prussian or German rule, and periods of autonomy or self-rule as a "free city". In the early-modern age Gdańsk was a royal city of Poland. It was considered the wealthiest and the largest city of Poland, prior to the 18th century rapid growth of Warsaw. Between the world wars, the Free City of Danzig was in a customs union with Poland and was located between German East Prussia and the so-called Polish Corridor. More on Gdańsk

Anton Nowak (10 May 1865 – 28 May 1932) was an Austrian artist and graphic designer. Hewas born in Marburg an der Drau and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. In 1894, he joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, and had a work shown at the group's first exhibition] Nowak contributed woodcuts to the group's magazine Ver Sacrum, taking inspiration from the northern Adriatic region. He was on the group's working committee in 1898, 1902, and served as the group's president in 1908-09.

He also painted watercolours of the Austrian countryside and the city of Brno, where he ran a painting school.

Nowak's paintings were brightly coloured and naturalistic; under the Secession's influence, he experimented with pointillism in the style of Théo van Rysselberghe. His work as a designer was firmly within the Secession's tradition. He was influenced by Theodor von Hörmann. More on Anton Nowak

01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART BY THE OLD MASTERS, MARINE PAINTINGS - WITH FOOTNOTES, #21c

George Albert Thompson, (1868 - 1938)

Fishing boats

Oil on canvas

19-1/2 x 23-1/2 in. (49.5 x 59.7 cm.)

Private Collection

George Albert Thompson, (1868 - 1938), best known for Connecticut landscapes and coastal scenes including atmospheric nocturnes, George Thompson frequently painted around Bridgeport, Mystic, and New Haven.

He was an art teacher at the Yale School of Fine Arts where he studied. He was also a student of John LaFarge and studied in Paris. Thompson was founder and first president of the Mystic Art Association and exhibited at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy and the Corcoran Gallery biennials. More on George Albert Thompson

01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #21c

Édouard Adam (French, 1847-1929)

The ships La Pacicique and Tropique passing at sea

Oil on canvas

24 x 36 in. (60.9 x 91.4 cm.)

Private Collection

Édouard Adam (French, 1847-1929) was the name of both a father and son who painted ship's portraits in the port of Le Havre around the same time. There is much confusion between the two as their works were quite similar. Both Adams were the official painters to the department of marine in Le Havre and were well known and prolific marine artists.

The younger Adam usually signed himself "Adam Fils" and was better known for his steamships painted in the first quarter of this century. Adam the elder, who was more prolific, specialized in sailing vessels, but painted steamers as well. He is often regarded as the French equivalent of the master American ship portraitist, Antonio Jacobsen and is noted for recording the crucial transition period of wind power to steam.

In addition to many fine portraits of sailing vessels, both Adams painted commissions of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique Liners, private yachts and naval ships. A commission from Queen Victoria further attests to their abilities. More on Édouard Adam

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01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #21b

Henry Malfroy ( b. January 15, 1895, in Martinique; died in 1944)

Martigues

Oil on canvas

60 x 92 cm

Private Collection

Martigues is a commune northwest of Marseille. It is part of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the eastern end of the Canal de Caronte.

Nicknamed the "Provençale Venice", Martigues is a point of passage between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sea of Martigues (now Etang de Berre), close to the Côte d'Azur. The charm of its canals, its docks and bridges made it "The Venice of Provence". Martigues possesses also its cooperative winery "La Venise provençale": Coteaux d'Aix en Provence, rosé, red and white wines, fruit juices and natural oils in the region. More on Martigues

Henry Malfroy, ( b. January 15, 1895, in Martinique; died in 1944), was born in Martigues (Mouth of the Rhone) on the 15th January 1895.

He was most likely the son of Charles Malfroy, with whom he is often confused. He was an impressionist painter, specialising in topographical subjects including the town of Cassis, the Mouth of the Rhone, the Var and in particular street scenes of Paris.

He regularly exhibited at the Salons des Artistes Francais et des Independants. More on Henry Malfroy

01 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #21a

Joaquín Sorolla, 1863 - 1923, SPANISH

RETURN WITH THE CATCH, c. 1908

Oil on canvas

25.5 by 37.5cm., 10 by 14½in.

Private Collection

Painted on El Cabañal beach, Valencia, in 1908, the present work takes up a theme that preoccupied Sorolla like no other: returning fishermen attended by their wives and daughters carrying baskets in which to carry to market the day's catch. The subject had first attracted Sorolla in the early 1890s when he painted his large scale canvas La Vuelta de la pesca in 1894, and exhibited it to great acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1895 (bought by the French State, and now in the Musée d'Orsay). The present work, painted in situ, evokes the bustling atmosphere of the fishing community on the Valencian beach. More on this painting

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land. More on Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #125

Montague Dawson, British, 1895-1973

Night Suspect (A British Coast Guard Cutter in Pursuit)

Signed Montague Dawson(ll)

Oil on canvas

25 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm)

Private collection

The painting depicts the dramatic chase on a moonlit night by the British Coast Guard, firing a canon at suspected smugglers in the English Channel. More on this painting

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