Archives: Artists
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Samuel Holburn Fyfe
1822-1905 Born in Port Glsgow, Scotland he worked there most of his life and was fairly successful as a marine painter with many commissions by ship owners, to his credit. He also lived for a time in Greenock. In the book Marine Art & the Clyde by A.S. Davidson there are eleven pages on the…
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Dusi Cosgrove
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Kenneth Denton Shoesmith
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John Schranz
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Salvatore De Angelis
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Roy Cross
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Robert Allensmore Lowe
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Fitz Henry Lane
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Temple West
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John Davison Liddell
Born and working in North Shields, England, Liddell took up painting early in life. He preferred to depict shipping in the mouth of the river Tyne, in the Northumberland area of the English coast painting both coastal and inland marine scenes, the subj
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Egidius Linnig
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George Vemply Abbott
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Ambrogio
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E. Baker
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Trinity House Lightkeeper
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Anonymous Artist
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William Edgar
Born in Australia, Edgar sailed in 1918 as passenger bound for San Francisco aboard the bark JANE L. STANFORD. While working in Sydney he had gained a reputation as an accomplished ship portraitist and painter of marine views. He also created numerous works showing Newcastle, New South Wales. During the years in Sydney, he was…
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Francis Luis Mora
F. Luis Mora was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to a family with artistic tradition. His father, Domingo Mora (1840-1911), was a Spanish architectural sculptor. Luis studied art with his father, as did his brother was Joseph Jacinto Jo Mora (1876-1947), who would become a noted California artist. Luis Mora entered the Boston Museum School of…
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Jonas Lie
Primarily a landscape painter, Jonas Lie was born in Oslo, Norway and immigrated to the United States in 1893 with his family. His father’s death when Lie was 12 and subsequent financial misfortune required that Lie start working at 17. He spent nine years designing calico shirts at a cotton mill, continuing his art studies…
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David Howard Hitchcock
One of the most revered of the early Hawaiian artists, David Howard Hitchcock mostly painted landscapes, from pleasing small horizontal formats up to his participation in a series of 30′ murals and a 15′ mural of Hanalei Bay for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. Hitchcock is known for his superb detailed sense of the floral…