10 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #22

WILLIAM FORMBY HALSALL, (American, 1841-1919) 

ON THE HIGH SEAS 

Oil on canvas 

30 x 62 in., frame: 45 x 77 in. 

Private collection

William Formby Halsall (born 1841) was a marine painter born in Kirkdale, England. He lived at Provincetown, Massachusetts and died as a US citizen in 1919. Halsall was educated in Boston, Massachusetts and worked as a sailor for seven years from 1852 to 1859. In 1860, he had begun to study fresco painting but due to the outbreak of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the United States Navy. He resumed his fresco study after two years of service.

In 1862, Halsall changed to marine painting and studied at the Lowell Institute in Boston until 1870.[2] Halsall was also a founding member of the Provincetown Art Association in 1914. More William Formby Halsall

EDWARD BRODNEY, (American, 1910-2002)

FISHING BOATS

Oil on canvas

17 x 20 1/2 in

Private collection

EDWARD BRODNEY, (American, 1910-2002) was an American artist, particularly noted for his drawings and paintings of World War II. He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of an immigrant fisherman. One of seven children, an older brother was the screenwriter Oscar Brodney.

In 1936, Brodney won a competition by the Federal Works Progress Administration to paint a mural in the Massachusetts State House. He also painted a mural in the Newton, MA State House, and a second later in the Massachusetts State House.

Brodney was drafted in World War II, and served in the South Pacific. Officially serving as a medic, he painted soldiers in their everyday activities. Pictures in an exhibition of his work in honor of Memorial Day 2007 show servicemen repairing engines, carrying supplies off ships, storming a beach, and enjoying their days off.

Returning from the war, he opened an art gallery in Boston and continued to paint. Frequent subjects of his later work include people enjoying Boston Public Garden, horses, and people playing polo. More EDWARD BRODNEY

ARTHUR GROVER RIDER, (American, 1886-1975)

BOAT COMING ASHORE

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 in

Private collection

Arthur Grover Rider (1886-1975) was born in Chicago, IL on March 21, 1886.  Rider received his early training at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.  In his student years he painted for the Chicago Lyric Opera and later traveled to Europe.  While living in London, he painted for the London Opera at Covent Garden.  Arthur Rider further studied at Académies de la Grande-Chaumiére and Colarossi in Paris, and exhibited there at the George Petite Galleries.  For nine summers he painted in Spain and it was there that he met Joaquin Sorolla who greatly influenced his work. They painted together on the Valencian Beach, and when Sorolla died in 1923, Rider was an integral part of the funeral cortége.  While in Spain, Rider's works were exhibited at the court of Valencia.

ARTHUR GROVER RIDER, (American, 1886-1975)

Beaching the Boat,  Circa 1920

Oxen retrieving fishing boat in Valencia

 Oil on Canvas

Signature:  Lower Right

34" x 44"

Private collection

Trips were made to California during the 1920s before settling in Laguna Beach in 1931. For over thirty years he was one of the leading scenic artists with MGM and Fox Studios. He painted murals for the Century of Progress Expo of Chicago in 1933 and the GGIE of 1939. A versatile artist, he excelled in painting florals, landscapes, seascapes, animals, and figures. During his last years he made trips to Taxco, Mexico and specialized in architectural themes such as cathedrals and buildings with red tile roofs.  Arthur Rider died in Pasadena on Jan. 25, 1975. More Arthur Grover Rider

Boris Kriukov, 1895-1967

Inmigrantes, Argentina, c.1955 

Oil on canvas

60 x 80 cm

Private collection

Boris Kriukow was born on January 19, 1895 in Orhiyiv, Bessarabia (now Moldova). His father was an official in the court of justice of that town.

After finishing the Kyiv Art School in 1918, he concentrated on graphic art. In the interwar period he illustrated over 500 books, among them works by Shevchenko, Franko, Dickens, Antonenko-Davydovych, etc., as well as books for childrens. He was recognized as one of the best graphic artists in Ukraine. During World War Two, 1943, he moved to Lviv, where he took part in an exhibition, one of his paintings being called by art critics "the jewel" of that exhibition. From 1944 to 1948 he lived in Austria, and painted under the pseudonym of Ivan Usatenko, taking part in art exhibitions in Salzburg, Innsbruck, etc.

In 1948, he emigrated to Argentina and settled in Buenos Aires, where he held personal exhibitions in the most renowned art galleries. His oil paintings were also exhibited in Canada (Toronto, 1956), and USA (New York City, 1963 and 1965).

At the same time, he worked as a book illustrator for both Argentine and Ukrainian publishing houses. 1950–1960 he illustrated up to 80 Ukrainian books for Mykola Denysiuk publishers, Buenos Aires. He cooperated, too, with the Julian Serediak publishing firm, editors of the "Mitla" (The Broom) humor magazine, where his own book, Smikholina (Laughter-Drops) was published (1966).

From 1950 until his death, he was the only illustrator of the great series "The Unforgettable Classics" (all editions in Spanish) of the famous "Ateneo" publishing firm: More Boris Kriukow

HERMANN HUBER, (Swiss, 1888-1967) 

BEACH SCENE 

Oil on panel 

12 x 16 in., frame: 18 x 22 in. 

Private collection

Hermann Huber, (born 13 September 1888 in Wiedikon , died December 9, 1967 in Hirzel ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist . Her attended school in Wiedikon where he met his future artist colleague Reinhold Kündig in 1900, who married his sister Hedi in 1916. At the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich he made friends with Otto Meyer (Otto Meyer-Amden). After living in Düsseldorf , Berlin, and Munich, and his first sales of his own etchings , he went to Rome with Kündig in 1908 and Jan Verkade (Willibrord Verkade) to Jerusalem , where he worked on the painting of the Dormitio Abbey . Back in Zurich, he exhibited his paintings from Palestine and had a joint exhibition with Kündig, Victor Schulte and Eduard Bick at the Zurich Kunsthaus . In 1911 he became a member of the avant-garde association Der Moderne Bund, founded by Hans Arp , Werner Helbig and Oskar Lüthy . He exhibited at the Berlin Secession in 1911, 1912 and 1918; he was also represented at the special exhibition in Cologne in 1912 . 1912/13 he stayed with Willi Baumeister and Meyer in Amden , Meyer stayed there until 1928. In 1913 Herwarth Walden showed three oil paintings and eleven etchings at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin. In 1914, he was one of the 24 artists represented by Adolf Hölzel in the so-called "Expressionist Hall" within the framework of the large Stuttgart art exhibition of the Association of Friends of Art in the Rhine Lands.

In 1914 he married Eveline Grisebach, a cousin of the philosopher Eberhard Grisebach , whom he had met in 1913 with Cuno Amiet . In 1915, Huber turned away from the expressionistic pictorial language.

Bruno Cassirer conducted a solo exhibition in Berlin in 1923. Already in 1924, a monograph on the artist, 36 years old, was published by Hans Trog , the art critic of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , and Curt Glaser , the Berlin art critic. In 1932/33 he housed the deathly ill Meyer-Amden with him on the peninsula Au . From 1933 he lived retired in Sihlbrugg. More Hermann Huber 

AMERICAN SCHOOL, (19th/20th century) 

THE UNCAS WHALING OFF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 

Oil on canvas 

17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in

Private collection

Off the Cape of Good Hope, the American whaling ship “Uncas”, fully-rigged, is viewed lengthwise in the foreground. At far left is another American ship, and an English ship is at far right; other unidentified ships are in the background. Several whales can be seen blowing spouts of water through their blowholes, as men in longboats pursue them with harpoons. In the far background are the cliffs of the Cape. 

An old handwritten paper label verso notes, "This is the whaling ship Uncas/Built in 1828 at Falmouth. Transferred to A. H. Howland in 1843. Sold and went into merchant service an 1862./1st Capt. H. C. Bunker 1828/Artist unknown. South Pacific, sperm whales in picture." 

Louis Le Breton, (1818–1866) 

The Austerlitz, 19th century

Louis Le Breton, témoin des marines du XIXème siècle.

Private collection

The Austerlitz was a late 100-gun Hercule-class ship of the line of the French Navy. Laid down as Ajax, she was renamed Austerlitz on 28 November 1839, still on keel.

In 1850, her rigging was changed for that of a 90-gun, and a steam engine was installed. She took part in operations in the Black Sea in 1854.

From 1871, she was used as a prison hulk of prisoners of the Paris Commune. Between 1874 and 1894, she was used as a school ship. She was eventually broken up in 1895. More Austerlitz

Louis Le Breton (1818 in Douarnenez – 1866) was a French painter who specialised in marine paintings.

Le Breton studied medicine and took part in Dumont d'Urville's second voyage aboard the Astrolabe. After the official illustrator of the expedition died, Le Breton replaced him.

From 1847 he devoted himself mainly to depicting marine subjects for the French Navy. More Louis Le Breton

AFTER ANTOINE ANGE-JOSEPH ROUX, (French, 1765-1835) 

THE NAIAD OF SALEM

Copy by A. Clive Edwards, Artist 

Watercolor 

18 x 24 in

Private collection

The Brig “Naiad,” of 259 tons burden, was built in Haverhill in 1817 for Pickering Dodge of Salem and was first registered at the Salem Custom House July 18, 1819, Nathaniel Osgood being the master. On Thursday, October 28, 1819, she arrived from Calcutta on her first voyage, having been struck by lightning the Sunday previous. The second mate, William Griffen, who was on the main topsail yard was instantly killed and fell into the sea with his clothes burning. The vessel, however, received but trifling damage. More The Brig Naiad

Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux, "Antoine Roux" (1765–1835) was a French marine artist famous for his watercolor ship portraits created during the most epic time of the sailing ship era.

He was born March 5, 1765 I Marseille, France, to Joseph Roux and Marie-Ursule Demoline. Antoine grew up in his father’s hydrographic shop where he picked up his nautical knowledge. The earliest known his work is a sketch from 1787, signed and dated, showing pieces of a man-of-war. Later sketchbooks are in collection at the Peabody Essex Museum. He became very popular for the accuracy in ship’s depiction and the way he made them seem alive. Ship owners and captains were eager to entrust him with creating paintings of their ships. He portrayed ships of every nation visiting Marseille during decades, including many United States navy and merchant ships. His creations are invaluable original source of the knowledge about old sailing ships.

 ANTOINE ANGE-JOSEPH ROUX, (French, 1765-1835) 

American Frigate Entering a French Port, c. 1805

American ships entering Marseilles

Unidentified Frigate and sloop.

Watercolor

18 x 24 in

Peabody Essex Museum

For the most part Antoine’s style remained the same, especially when it came to hulls and rigging, which he depicted with excellent skill. One area that changed was his depiction of water. It was around 1805-1806 that he stopped illustrating waves so formally with high-crested wavelets, except in the instance of rough seas, and replaced them with softer and more natural looking waves.

He continued to paint and work in the hydrographic shop up until his death. More Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux

Louis Le Breton (1818–1866) 

New York Panoramic View, c. 1850,

Lithograph 

19" by 14"

Private collection

Louis Le Breton, (1818–1866) 

New York Panoramic View, c. 1850, France

Detail

19th Century color lithograph of New York harbor / Manhattan and East River panoramic view as seen from Ellis Island. Sailing ship in the foreground has an American flag design popular in the 1840's known as the Grand Luminary where the individual stars form a single, larger star. Inscription bellow the image states "del et lith par L. Lebreton." 

Louis Lebreton (1818-1866) was a French Naval surgeon, painter and noted lithographer of ships and nautical subjects.

Louis Le Breton (1818–1866) 

New York Panoramic View, c. 1850, France

Detail

At age nineteen Lebreton embarked on a three year trip to the South Pole and Oceania as assistant surgeon of the vessel Astrolabe. The Astrolabe and the Zélée where two French Navy corvettes. The young artist Ernest Goupil (c.1814-1841) was responsible for recording the places, people, flora and fauna encountered during the expedition. Goupil caught dysentery while passing through Malaysia and died during the night of December 31st 1839. From then on, Lebreton took over recording the expedition. Back in France, Lebreton also worked on the publication of the trip entitled "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée." After several other voyages, Lebreton finally resigned his post as Naval Surgeon and settled in Paris where he devoted himself to painting and engraving a variety of nautical subjects. He died in 1866 when he was 48 years old. More Louis Le Breton

Louis Le Breton (1818–1866) 

New York Panoramic View, c. 1850, France

Detail

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18 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #22

Germain Fabius Brest, 1823 - 1900, FRENCH

ON THE BOSPHORUS

Oil on canvas

117 by 89cm., 46 by 35in.

Private Collection

Encouraged by his teacher in Marseille, Emile Loubon, Fabius Brest spent four years, from 1855 until 1859, living in Turkey, recording in a series of paintings views of Constantinople, the surrounding countryside, and the Black Sea coast. The time he spent there continued to inspire his work for the rest of his career, and provided the subjects for many of his Salon submissions throughout the 1860s and 1870s. More

Germain Fabius Brest (born 1823 - died in 1900) is a French orientalist painter. He studied his art with painters Emile Loubon, Marseille, and Constant Troyon in Paris.

On the advice of Loubon who made a living in Palestine. He then traveled to Turkey from 1855 to 1859, from where he returned with many landscape paintings.

The east, and especially architecture orientale remained his main sources of inspiration throughout his life. More Germain Fabius Brest 

Marc-Aurèle Fortin, 1888 - 1970

Barge, Port of Montreal

Watercolour and pencil, c. 1934

10.25 x 13.75 in

Private Collection

Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14, 1888 – March 2, 1970) was a Québécois painter, born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec. He studied art in Montreal and worked at the Montreal Post Office, and at an Edmonton bank. He studied art abroad. He was known for painting watercolour landscapes of the St. Lawrence Valley. He travelled around the St. Lawrence Valley by bicycle. Fortin believed that "Canadian artists should take their inspiration from the countryside and progress towards a national art... We should excel in landscapes, exactly as the French do".

He was part of the first Atelier exhibition at Henry Morgan Galleries in April 1932 together with Atelier founder John Goodwin Lyman, André Biéler, and Edwin Holgate. Fortin was exhibited by Galerie L'Art français from the 1940s.

His works are displayed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[3] He died in 1970. More

Marc-Aurèle Fortin, 1888 - 1970

ANTIBES, LE PORT

Watercolour

28 x 37 cm

Private Collection

Marc-Aurèle Fortin, 1888 - 1970, see above

Montague Dawson, (1890–1973)

A merchant convoy under escort, c. 1918

pencil, watercolour and bodycolour

6 x 7 ½ in. (15.2 x 19 cm.)

Private Collection

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 Montague Dawson

Nicholas Pocock, 1740 - 1821

View of Southampton, taken from the shore towards Netley Abbey, c. 1908

Oil on canvas

19 ¼ x 29 ½ in. (48.9 x 74.9 cm.)

Private Collection

Nicholas Pocock (2 March 1740 – 9 March 1821) was a British artist known for his many detailed paintings of naval battles during the age of sail. Pocock was born in Bristol in 1740, the son of a seaman. He followed his father's profession and was master of a merchant ship by the age of 26. During his time at sea, he became a skilled artist by making ink and wash sketches of ships and coastal scenes for his log books.

In 1778, Pocock's employer, Richard Champion, became financially insolvent due to the effects of the American Revolutionary War on transatlantic trade. As a result, Pocock gave up the sea and devoted himself to painting. The first of his works were exhibited by the Royal Academy in 1782. Later that year, Pocock was commissioned to produce a series of paintings illustrating George Rodney's victory at the Battle of the Saintes. In 1789, he moved to London, where his reputation and contacts continued to grow. He was a favourite of Samuel Hood and was appointed Marine Painter to King George.

Pocock's naval paintings incorporated extensive research, including interviewing eyewitnesses about weather and wind conditions as well as the positions, condition, and appearance of their ships; and drawing detailed plans of the battle and preliminary sketches of individual ships. 

In addition to his large-scale oil paintings depicting naval battles, Pocock also produced many watercolours of coastal and ship scenes. More

Alberto Pasini, 1826 - 1899, ITALIAN

Golden Horn, Istambul, circa 1876

Oil on panel

22.5 x 35.5 cm;

Private Collection

Alberto Pasini (Busseto, 3 September 1826 – Cavoretto, 15 December 1899) was an Italian painter. He was enrolled at the age of 17 years, in the Academy of Fine Art of Parma, studying landscape painting and drawing. In Parma, he was helped early on by Antonio Pasini, who painted for the local nobility and collaborated with the publishing house established by Giovanni Battista Bodoni. By 1852, he exhibited a series of thirty designs, made into lithographs, depicting various castles around Piacenza, Lunigiana and Parma. He was noticed by the artist Paolo Toschi, who encouraged Pasini to travel to Paris, where Pasini first joined the workshop of Charles and Eugène Ciceri, of the so-called School of Barbizon.

In 1853 his lithograph of The Evening gained him admittance to the Paris Salon, and to the workshop of the famous Théodore Chassériau. The eruption of the Crimean War offered a new opportunity, when in February 1855, this latter painter recommended Pasini to replace him on the entourage of the French plenipotentiary minister Nicolas Prosper Bourée to Persia. Pasini accompanied him, returning through the north of Persia and Armenia before reaching the port of Trebizond. In subsequent trips, he visited Egypt, the Red Sea, Arabia, Istanbul, and Persia. Pasini parlayed his exposures during this trip into numerous highly detailed paintings of orientalist subjects. He left again for Istanbul in October 1867, summoned by the French Ambassador Bourée. He returned to Turkey in 1876 to execute the four paintings commissioned by Sultan Abdul Aziz. He was about to return to Istanbul the next year, when his patron, the Sultan, died.

Alberto Pasini, 1826 - 1899, ITALIAN

Market in Istanbul (Constantinople), c. 1868

Oil on canvas

Height: 23.5 cm (9.3 in). Width: 90 cm (35.4 in).

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,  Madrid, Spain

In 1865, he spent some time in Cannes, painted landscapes of the Riviera. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he returned to Italy, settling in Cavoretto, on the hills around Turin. He continued to travel, closer to his home, with trips to Venice and two sojourns in Spain in 1879 and 1883. More Alberto Pasini 

Emil Jakob Schindler, 1842 - 1892

Küstenlandschaft in Dalmatien (Dalmatian Coastline), c. 1890

Oil on Canvas

Emil Jakob Schindler (April 27, 1842 – August 9, 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. He was born into a family of manufacturers that had been established in Lower Austria since the 17th Century. He was supposed to pursue a career in the military, but rejected that for a career in the arts. In 1860, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he studied with Albert Zimmermann. He found his models, however, in the Dutch Masters such as Meindert Hobbema and Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael. In 1873, he travelled to Venice, followed by trips to Dalmatia and Holland.

In 1875, he married the operetta singer Anna von Bergen (1857–1938), who may have been pregnant at the time of the wedding. Their financial situation was somewhat desperate and they had to share an apartment with a colleague of Schindler's, Julius Victor Berger. 

Emil Jakob Schindler, 1842 - 1892

Küstenlandschaft in Dalmatien (Dalmatian Coastline), c. 1887

Oil on Canvas

View of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), painted in 1887 during Jakob Emil Schindler second journey to the Dalmatian coast. The people shown in the foreground are the artist’s wife, the Hamburg singer Anna Sofie Moll-Schindler-Bergen, and their daughter Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel. The figures on the right in the middle of the work are the painter Carl Julius Rudolf Moll, shown dressed as a gardener, and Schindler’s second daughter, Margarethe. Schindler had rented a house in Dubrovnik which is clearly visible at the edge of the cliffs. During severe Sirocco winds the waves would break over the cliff, creating a magical spectacle. More View of Ragusa

In 1881, he won the Reichel Prize, which came with a cash award of 1,500 Gulden, enabling the family to rent their own apartment. Winning the prize also served to attract clients and their financial condition continued to improve. After 1885, he spent his summers at the artists colony in Plankenberg Castle near Neulengbach.  Two years later, he received a commission from Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria to sketch the coastal towns in Dalmatia and Greece, as part of a project called "The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures" (24 volumes). That same year, he became an honorary member of the Vienna Academy. In 1888, the Munich Academy followed suit.

He died as the result of appendicitis. The city of Vienna gave him an "Ehrengrab" (Honor Grave) at the Zentralfriedhof, designed by the sculptor Edmund von Hellmer. Three years later, Hellmer created a statue of him for the Stadtpark.[1] A street in the Währing District named after him. More Emil Jakob Schindler

William Edward Norton, (American, 1843-1916)

Bustling Fishing Port

Oil on canvas

22 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. (57.8 x 75.5 cm)

Private Collection

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

Thomas Buttersworth, 1768 - 1842

An Austrian frigate in two positions off the harbour at Cadiz

Oil on canvas

22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.)

Private Collection

Thomas Buttersworth (5 May 1768 – November 1842) was an English seaman of the Napoleonic wars period who became a marine painter. He produced works to commission, and was little exhibited during his lifetime.

Butterworth was born on the Isle of Wight. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in London in 1795, and served on HMS Caroline during the wars with France, before being invalided home from Minorca in 1800.

The National Maritime Museum in London has 27 watercolours by him, several of which are mounted on sheets from 18th century printed signal and muster books. He went on to paint numerous naval battle scenes and pictures such as the ‘'Inshore Squadron off Cadiz in 1797'’ which are thought to show scenes he witnessed. On being appointed Marine Painter to the East India Company he painted ship portraits on commission. It had been thought that he died in 1830, but recent research has found that he painted Queen Victoria’s visit to Edinburgh in 1842 before he died in London later that year. More Thomas Buttersworth 

Thomas Buttersworth, 1768 - 1842

British '74' engaging the enemy, with a pilot cutter beyond

Oil on canvas laid down on board

25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)

Private Collection

Thomas Buttersworth (5 May 1768 – November 1842), see above

Walter Lofthouse Dean, (American, 1854-1912)

A Summer Day on the Dutch Shore

Oil on canvas

20 x 30 in. (50.7 x 76.3 cm)

Private Collection

Walter Lofthouse Dean (June 4, 1854 – March 13, 1912) was an American marine-landscape painter, commodore of the Boston Yacht Club and Vice President of the Boston Art Club. While Dean is primarily known for marine paintings from the Boston, Massachusetts region, he also developed many charcoal, pen and pencil drawings, watercolors and oil paintings of non-marine topics, including still life, architecture and landscapes. Dean was a recognized artist while he was alive and was listed in the 1903 Men of Massachusetts, along with Who's Who in American Art. Dean's most famous painting, Peace, is owned by the US Government and was exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in May–October 1893. More Walter Lofthouse Dean

Sir William Russell Flint, 1880-1969 (United Kingdom)

Sireny watch (Sirens observed), c. 1959

Watercolor on paper

27.5 x 37

Private Collection

Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolour paintings of women. He also worked in oils, tempera, and printmaking. He was born in Edinburgh then educated at Daniel Stewart's College and Edinburgh Institution. From 1894 to 1900 Flint apprenticed as a lithographic draughtsman while taking classes at the Royal Institute of Art, Edinburgh. From 1900 to 1902 he worked as a medical illustrator in London while studying part-time at Heatherley's Art School. He furthered his art education by studying independently at the British Museum. 

Flint was elected president of Britain’s Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (now the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1936 to 1956, and knighted in 1947. More

Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller, (Dutch, 1855-1925)

Horse-drawn Cart on Beach

Oil on board

12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.8 cm)

Private Collection

Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller (13 February 1855 in Amsterdam – 23 May 1925 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter. He belongs to The 2. Golden Age of Dutch Painting.

He is an impressionist of the School of Allebé, better known as Amsterdam Impressionism, part of the international movement of the Impressionism. From the art historical point of view he is one of the 2nd generation of the Hague School. He used the bright color palette of the French Impressionists, too – but from the perspective of a Dutchman. More Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller 

Giuseppe Laezza, (Italian, 1835-1905)

Fisherman's Family Beside a Beached Vessel

Oil on canvas

10 x 19 1/4 in. (25.2 x 49.0 cm)

Private Collection

Giuseppe Laezza (1835-1905) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes. He resided in Naples where in 1877 he exhibited: Dopo il tramonto; San Germano; Cassino, and Una mala pesca alla Marinella. Among his works are: A Procession of Children to the Festival of Ponti Rossi, End of the Grape Harvest; Panorama of Sorrento;Curiosity of a Painter; and Un bagno pubblico a San Giovanni a Teduccio, exhibited at Turin in 1884. He became a professor at Naples. He died in poverty. More Giuseppe Laezza

Giuseppe Laezza,  (Italian, 1835–1905)

Marina di Napoli con pescatori e veduta del Vesuvio

Naples Marina with fishermen and view of Vesuvius

Oil on panel

23.8 x 41 cm. (9.4 x 16.1 in.)

Private Collection

Fausto Zonaro (18 September 1854 – 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter, best known for his Realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Masi, a municipality in the Province of Padua, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was the eldest child of the mason Maurizio. Maurizio intended that his son should also be a mason, yet at a young age, Fausto showed a great ability at drawing. With his parents’ consent, he enrolled first in the Technical Institute in Lendinara, then in the Cignaroli Academy in Verona. Fausto opened a small art school and studio in Venice.

He actively displayed works in exhibition and gained respect of critics. He painted mainly genre works in oil and watercolor. The turning point in Zonaro’s career occurred however in 1891, when he fell in love with Elisabetta Pante, a pupil of his in Venice, And together they traveled to Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire. They were partly inspired by Edmondo de Amicis’ orientalist travel book Constantinopoli.

Fausto Zonaro, 1854 - 1929, ITALIAN

VIEW OF THE BOSPHORUS

Oil on panel

23 by 40cm., 9 by 15¾in.

Private Collection

In 1892, Zonaro and Pante married, and lived in the Istanbul neighborhood of Pera. Over time he gained patronage in aristocratic circles. Munir Pasha, the Minister of Protocol, who invited him to visit Yıldız Palace and meet the prestigious local artist Osman Hamdi Bey. He was employed in teaching painting to the Pasha's wife, and in this way Zonaro and Pante got to know the important artistic figures of Istanbul of that time. In 1896 he was nominated as the court painter thanks to the intervention of the Russian ambassador.

Zonaro remained in Istanbul until 1909, when he returned to Italy following the Young Turk Revolution that overthrew his patron Abdulhamid II and the shift to constitutional monarchy. There would be no Ottoman court painter after him. He settled in Sanremo where he continued to paint small works depicting the Italian Riviera and the nearby French Riviera until his death. More

Fausto Zonaro, 1854 - 1929, ITALIAN

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Oil on panel

23 by 40cm., 9 by 15¾in.

Private Collection

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