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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1863 - 1923
Arrival of the Boats, c. 1898
Oil on canvas
Private Collection
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
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1863 - 1923
Arrival of the Fishing Boats on the beach, Valencia, c. 1898
Oil on canvas
50 cm (19.69 in.), 98 cm (38.58 in.)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1863 - 1923
Beach at Valencia, c. 1904
Oil on canvas
Height: 46 cm (18.11 in.), Width: 116 cm (45.67 in.)
Private Collection
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1863 - 1923
Beach at Valencia (also known as Afternoon Sun), c. 1908
Oil on canvas
Private Collection
Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC, and called Valentia Edetanorum. In 714 Moroccan and Arab Moors occupied the city, introducing their language, religion and customs; they implemented improved irrigation systems and the cultivation of new crops as well, being capital of the Taifa of Valencia. In 1238 the Christian king James I of Aragon reconquered the city and divided the land among the nobles who helped him conquer it. In the 18th century Philip V of Spain abolished the privileges as punishment to the kingdom of Valencia for aligning with the Habsburg side in the War of the Spanish Succession. Valencia was the capital of Spain when Joseph Bonaparte moved the Court there in the summer of 1812. It also served as capital between 1936 and 1937, during the Second Spanish Republic.
The city is situated on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, fronting the Gulf of Valencia on the Mediterranean Sea. More Valencia
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1863 - 1923
The Arrival of the Boats, c. 1907
Oil on canvas
Height: 105 cm (41.34 in.), Width: 196.5 cm (77.36 in.)
Private Collection
Edward Moran, 1829 - 1901
NEW YORK BAY
Oil on canvas
36 by 66 1/2 inches, (91.4 by 168.9 cm)
Private Collection
Edward Moran (August 19, 1829 in Bolton,
Lancashire, England – June 8, 1901 in New York City) was an American artist of maritime paintings. Moran was born in
England on August 19, 1829. Following in the footsteps of his father's
profession, he learned to operate a hand-loom at a young age, though he would
often be found sketching with charcoal on the white fabric instead of plying
the shuttle. His family first emigrated to Maryland in 1844, and then to
Philadelphia a year later.
It was in
Philadelphia around 1845 that Edward apprenticed under James Hamilton and
landscape painter Paul Weber; Hamilton guided Moran specifically in the style
of marine paintings. In the 1850s Moran began to make a name for himself in the
Philadelphia artistic scene; working in the same studio as his younger brother,
famous American painter Thomas Moran, Edward received commissions and even
completed some lithographic work. In 1862, he traveled to London and became a
pupil in the Royal Academy.
Edward Moran, 1829 - 1901
NEW YORK BAY
Detail
In 1885, at the height of his career, Moran began on what would be considered his most important work - a series of 13 paintings representing the Marine History of the United States. He chose to have thirteen paintings in the series because of the significance of the number in American history (13 colonies, 13 stars and stripes on the original US flag, etc.). The subjects include Leif Ericsson, Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, Henry Hudson, and Admiral Dewey, among others.[3] Not long after their completion, the series was displayed at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. More
Edward Moran, 1829 - 1901
SHIP AT SEA
Oil on canvas
20 1/2 by 30 inches, (52.1 by 76.2 cm)
Private Collection
Sir Noël Coward, (British, 1900-1973)
The Yacht
Oil on canvas
50.5 x 40.5cm (19 7/8 x 15 15/16in)
Private Collection
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
Born in Teddington, south-west London, Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works, screenplays, poetry, several volumes of short stories Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which he starred in many of his own works.
At the outbreak of the Second World War Coward volunteered for war work, running the British propaganda office in Paris. He also worked with the Secret Service. Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943, and was knighted in 1969. More Noël Peirce Coward
Sir Noël Coward (British, 1900-1973)
Fisher Boys, Jamaica
Oil on canvas board
36 x 26cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/4in).
Private Collection
Campbell Archibald Mellon, (British, 1876-1955)
Kessingland beach
Oil on board
23.5 x 30.5cm (9 1/4 x 12in).
Private Collection
Kessingland, King's land, is a large village in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolkt. It is of interest to archaeologists as Palaeolithic and Neolithic implements have been found here; the remains of an ancient forest lie buried on the seabed.
There has been a settlement here since Palaeolithic times. Between the Hundred River and Latmer Dam was once a large estuary which was used by the Vikings and Romans. The sea provided the village with its main livelihood. More Kessingland
Campbell Archibald Mellon (British,
1876-1955) was born in Berkshire, and moving to Nottingham in 1903 to work as a
travelling salesman. He was determined on an
artist's life in Norfolk after witnessing World War One horrors. His
nickname of Melancholy Mellon reflected both the muddy palette of his early
land-locked pictures and his memories of the trenches.
Mellon moved to a house overlooking
Gorleston harbour – and for three years became Arnesby Brown's only known student.
They were to remain life-long friends and to die within weeks of one
another.
But while
Arnesby Brown was the painter-poet of the marshes, Mellon
excelled in people-packed scenes on the beach below his studio.
He
captured the fleeting glories of the English seaside summer, he stressed a celebratory
brightness by often painting directly into the sun – lighting up his teeming
cast beneath a sky possibly bearing the cumulus clouds that might rain on the
paddlers and promenaders within minutes. He was the portraitist of passing
pleasure. More Campbell Archibald Mellon Campbell Archibald Mellon
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