Marine Art

01 Marine Art, Thomas Birch's BRITANNIA to the Rescue. With Footnotes, #312

Thomas Birch, American, 1779-1851

BRITANNIA to the Rescue, c. 1843

Oil on canvas

9 1/8 x 14 inches

Private collection

The wreck off Sable Island. The first side wheel steamship Britannia of the Cunard Line to the rescue

Thomas Birch (1779 – January 3, 1851), was an English-born American portrait and marine painter. He was born in London, England. He came to the U. S. in 1794, and assisted his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings: Birch's Views of Philadelphia (1800). Subscribers to the series included President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson. This sold well and went into multiple editions, inspiring similar collected views of New York City, and of suburban estates surrounding Philadelphia and Baltimore. Thomas' first major painting appears to have been a view of Philadelphia from the Treaty Elm in Kensington, which was also engraved and published in 1804. He painted portraits until about 1807, when he took up marine-painting. Some of his most famous works depict naval battles of the War of 1812.

Historically, the Birches' most important work may be a circa-1801 engraving documenting the unfinished U.S. Capitol. Another, may be the painting depicting an 1812 naval battle between USS United States and HMS Macedonian, that hung in the Oval Office of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. More on Thomas Birch

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01 Marine Art, Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée's Waiting for the boats, with Footnotes, #311

Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée (Dutch, 1837-1904)

Waiting for the boats

Oil on canvas

72.4 x 100.6cm (28 1/2 x 39 5/8in)

Private collection

Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée (7 February 1837 The Hague – 14 December 1904 The Hague) was an artist who belonged to the Hague School.

Sadée started painting at the age of 20. He studied in The Hague both at the Academy and in the studio of J E J van den Berg (1802–1861). In 1866 with his fellow student Julius van de Sande Bakhuyzen. Sadée travelled to Düsseldorf where he studied for some months. He began painting biblical scenes and history paintings and later he focused on daily life. In Scheveningen he came into contact with the fisherman's life. He was fascinated with the beach and the dunes. Typical of Sadée are the bright colors.

Sadée travelled widely, he painted in the Pas de Calais and travelled in France, Germany, Belgium and Italy. Sadée exhibited in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague in the years 1853–1903, and was elected to the Arte et Amicitiae in Amsterdam. He taught at the Academy in The Hague and numbered Hendrikus M. Horrix (1845–1923) amongst his pupils. More on Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée

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01 Marine Art, Francisco Hernandez Monjo's Navy warship, with Footnotes, #310

Francisco Hernandez Monjo, Menorca 1862 - 1937

Marina con barco, Navy warship

Oil on canvas

60 x 100 cm

Private collection

Francisco Hernandez Monjo, Menorca 1862 - 1937, was born into a family of artists, silversmiths, and goldsmiths. At age 23 he began drawing lessons and his works then were landscapes of Mahon harbor and boats. By 1890 he moved to Barcelona where he completed his artistic training with Eliseo Meifrén at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In 1898, the house Tasso Barcelona commissioned a collection of watercolors of warships for the book “The Spanish Armada”.

He developed a reputation as painter of sea-coasts and landscapes of Balearic island. He was also an exellent pianist, inspired composer and important folklorist. He annotated more than 60 melodies for the "Esbart Folklore de Catalunya" orchestrated for orchestra, cobla and quintet. He also composed several studies of concert and works of minor importance specially for piano. More on Francisco Hernandez Monjo

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05 Marine Paintings - Edward William Cooke, Joseph Edward Southall, Henry Bernahl, J. M. W. Turner and Edward William Cooke. With Footnotes, #51

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

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

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

Henry Bernahl, (1900 - 1984)

Beached boat

Oil on board

23.5 x 35.5 in

Private collection

Henry Bernahl (1900-1984) was born in England on November 10, 1900. He moved to Australia at age eleven and soon shipped out as a seaman. While at sea, he acquainted himself with most all ocean-going craft which were later to become his painting forte. After moving to San Francisco in 1927, he worked as a towboat skipper and as a guide on the Balclutha where he maintained a studio and gallery. For health reasons, he later settled in Nevada City, California where he remained until his death on February 27, 1984. More on Henry Bernahl

Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S., R.B.S.A., N.E.A.C., 1861-1944

THE TRIPPERS, c. 1933 l.l.

Watercolour with pencil

16 by 25.5cm., 6¼ by 10in.

Private collection

A tripper is someone who visits a place for a short time, often with a large group of people:

Thousands of day trippers flock to resorts on the coast.

Joseph Edward Southall RWS NEAC RBSA (23 August 1861 – 6 November 1944) was an English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.

A leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen—one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the later Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century Slade Symbolists.

A lifelong Quaker, Southall was an active socialist and pacifist, initially as a radical member the Liberal Party and later of the Independent Labour Party.

Southall was elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) in 1898 and Member in 1902. He became President of the Society in 1939 and stayed in this post until his death in 1944. More on Joseph Edward Southall

Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S., R.B.S.A., N.E.A.C., 1861-1944

A GOLDEN EVENING, SOUTHWOLD, c. 1926 l.r.

Tempera over pencil on linen

29.5 by 37cm., 11½ by 14½in.

Private collection

Southwold is a small town on the English North Sea coast in the Waveney district of Suffolk. Southwold's economy nowadays is mainly based on services, and particularly hotels, holiday accommodation, catering, and tourism. More on Southwold

Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S., R.B.S.A., N.E.A.C., 1861-1944, see above

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01 Painting, Marine Art, Anton Otto Fischer's Merchant Vessel, With Footnotes, #309

Anton Otto Fischer, 1882 - 1962

Merchant Vessel

Oil on Board

22" x 29.75"

Private collection

Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 – March 26, 1962) was born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years on a variety of sailing ships. In New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship." He later served as a hand on racing yachts on Long Island Sound and worked as a model and handyman for the illustrator A.B. Frost. When he had saved enough money, he spent two years at the Academie Julian in Paris under Laurens.

Returning to the United States, Fischer sold his first picture to Harper's Weekly in 1908, around the time he moved to Wilmington to receive critiques from Pyle. Everybody's magazine sent him the first of several Jack London stories. In 1910, he began a 48-year association with The Saturday Evening Post, which included illustrating serialized characters such as Peter B. Kyne's "Crappy Ricks," Norman Reilly Raine's "Tugoat Annie," Guy Gilpatrick's "Glencannon," as well as serials for Kenneth Robert and Nordoff and Hall.

In 1942, he was given the run of Lieutenant Commander as "Artist Laureate" for the United States Coast Guard and was assigned Moth Atlantic convoy duty on the Coast Guard cutter "Campbell" during the winter of 1943. The "Campbell" was disabled during a successful attack on a German U-boat, and Fischer's dramatic paintings of this experience were published by Life magazine. The pictures are now in the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut.

In 1947, Fischer wrote and illustrated a book about his earlier sailing years, entitled Fo'c'sle Days, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. More on Anton Otto Fischer

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01 Work, Marine Art, Anton Otto Fischer's CLIPPER SHIP, With Footnotes, #309

Anton Otto Fischer, 1882 - 1962

CLIPPER SHIP, c. 1930

Oil on canvas

24 by 32 inches, (61 by 81.3 cm)

Private collection

Returning to the United States, Fischer sold his first picture to Harper's Weekly in 1908, around the time he moved to Wilmington to receive critiques from Pyle. Everybody's magazine sent him the first of several Jack London stories. In 1910, he began a 48-year association with The Saturday Evening Post, which included illustrating serialized characters such as Peter B. Kyne's "Crappy Ricks," Norman Reilly Raine's "Tugoat Annie," Guy Gilpatrick's "Glencannon," as well as serials for Kenneth Robert and Nordoff and Hall.

In 1942, he was given the run of Lieutenant Commander as "Artist Laureate" for the United States Coast Guard and was assigned Moth Atlantic convoy duty on the Coast Guard cutter "Campbell" during the winter of 1943. The "Campbell" was disabled during a successful attack on a German U-boat, and Fischer's dramatic paintings of this experience were published by Life magazine. The pictures are now in the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut.

In 1947, Fischer wrote and illustrated a book about his earlier sailing years, entitled Fo'c'sle Days, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. More on Anton Otto Fischer

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01 Marine Art, Dale Byhre's Aberdeen Green, With Footnotes, #306

Dale Byhre, ( Canadian 1956 - )

Aberdeen Green, c. 1980

Oil on canvas

24" x 36" (60.96 x 91.44 cm.)

Private collection

Ships that belonged to the Aberdeen ‘White Star’ line were painted in "Aberdeen Green" with white decks and bottom. They also had a gilded streak and scroll work. Many did their time in the Australian passenger trade.

The ships painted in the traditional "Aberdeen Green" enjoyed great popularity all over the world.

Dale Byhre, ( Canadian 1956 - ), has specialized in depicting both historical and modern ships. Dale has encompassed a strong appreciation for both ships and the sea, depicting them both with accuracy and reverence. Dale Byhre's paintings are recreations of a time and place based on long hours of research and study. Whether a battleship in action during a critical moment in history or fishing docks on a peaceful morning.

Dale is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and the American Society of Marine Artists. Dale’s work is in many private and public collections, including those of the Royal Canadian Navy, the US Naval Academy Museum.

Dale is a full-time artist and lives Cloverdale, B.C. More on Dale Byhre

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01 Work, Marine Art, Georges Chavignaud's Figures in a harbour, With Footnotes, #307

Georges Chavignaud, (1865-1944)

Figures in a harbour

Oil on canvas

45 x 50 cm.

Private collection

Georges Chavignaud, (1865-1944), was primarily a painter of landscapes in watercolor. He was born in Brittany, France in 1865 and studied in Paris. He came to Toronto, Ontario, in 1884, worked as art director for a publishing firm, and married a Canadian. From 1903-04 they travelled and painted, in Europe. George studied under leading artists in Belgium and was elected a member of the Society of Water Colour Painters in Belgium. In 1904 he returned to Canada settling in Meadowvale (1904) and Etobicoke (1910). Kleinberg (1918), Meadowvale (1929), and became a founding member of the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto and a member of the Ontario Society of Artists. He was elected to the Ontario Society of Artists in 1900, but resigned in protest over the work of the Group of Seven. From 1902-1918 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Canadian Academy. From1912-1916, he was principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design in Halifax. He continued to travel in Belgium, France and the Netherlands where he found renewed inspiration. He painted Canadian landscapes in the Maritimes, the Ile d'Orléans in Quebec, and in Ontario. He died at Meadowvale, north of Mississauga, in 1944. More on Georges Chavignaud

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01 Marine Art, by Petrus Paulus Schiedges the Elder, With Footnotes, #304

Petrus Paulus Schiedges the Elder (Dutch, 1812–1876)

Fisher Boat at the Shore by Rough Sea, in the Distant a Tallship, c. 1865

Oil on panel

37.5 x 28.5 cm

Private collection

Petrus Paulus Schiedges the Elder (Dutch, 1812–1876). After his study at the Haagsche Teekenacademie, Petrus Paulus Schiedges developed into a painter of sea and river views. In the forties of the 19th century, he received advice from marine painter Louis Meijer. Schiedges was a master at displaying the different ship types that sailed on the Dutch waters at that time. More on Petrus Paulus Schiedges

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01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305

Marius de JONGERE, (1912 - 1977)

The Vessel Ponape at the Port of Rotterdam

Etching

40 x 27 cm.

Private collection

Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In 1914 she was arrested by HMS Majestic and confiscated as a war prize by the Admiralty. She was renamed Bellhouse In 1915 she was sold to Norwegian owners. In 1925, she was sold to Finland and again named Ponape serving until she was scrapped in 1936. More on Ponape

Marinus Johannes Drulman, ( Amsterdam , July 4, 1912 - Rotterdam , June 30, 1977 ), known by the pseudonym Marius de Jongere, was a Dutch watercolorist , etcher , draftsman , graphic artist and painter . He is particularly known as a painter of the Rotterdam ports.

Drulman worked and lived mainly in Rotterdam and is known by his harbor views as a typical Rotterdam painter. However, he originally came from Amsterdam.

Drulman was taught at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam. As an artist he used the pseudonym Marius the Younger; this was a reference to his stepfather, the painter and etcher Marius Janssen . Only during the German occupation did he sign his work with the name Drulman, because artists at that time were not allowed to work under a pseudonym.

His style was naturalistic - impressionistic . His most productive period in the fifties and sixties coincided with the rise of the Rotterdam ports . Drulman became famous for harbor views . In addition to ports and ships, he also painted portraits and landscapes , often of the polder landscape around his studio in Hillegersberg .

He was a member of Kunstenaarsssociëteit Rotterdam. He made trips to Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland.

The Kamper museum , among others, owns work by Drulman. According to a number of sources, the American vice-president Lyndon B.Johnson bought five landscapes during a visit to the Netherlands in the 1960s in the studio of Drulman. More on Marinus Johannes Drulman

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01 Marine Art, by Kimber Lee Clark, With Footnotes, #303

Kimber Lee Clark, Maine

Busy Cove

Oil on canvas

48" x 60".

Private collection

Kimber Lee Clark is a self-taught artist and teacher. She owned the Saturday Cove Gallery in Saturday Cove, Maine for 25 years.

She is well known for her artful abundance which plays through her paintings with color, wit, and whimsey. Whether it’s a rendition of island living, a lop sided lighthouse or bringing in the prize ”blue lobstah”, all are infused with a sense of optimism and joy. Her well-loved iconic rendition of the Monhegan Lighthouse was commissioned by Coastal Living Magazine. More on Kimber Lee Clark

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