Archives: Artists

Charles Arthur Lodder was a Royal Naval officer and artist in Victorian England. Lodder served as Midshipman of the Powerful 84, Commodore Chas. Napier, during all the operations on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre. He passed his examination 7 July, 1842; was employed in the Mediterranean, as Mate, from…

The born son of the Austrian counsel to England in 1801, Conrad Martens is most widely known as an artist-explorer who served onboard the South American Exposition ship BEAGLE alongside of naturalist Charles Darwin. His original 1833-35 sketches led to painting commissions for more than 40 years. Fate and opportunity collided to make Martens an…

From Gloucester, England and the son of a retired naval officer, he started his career in an architecture firm in London. Because of asthma, he went to New Zealand in 1883, and then in 1885 went to Hawaii on the ship "Explorer". Barnfield rema

Although relatively little biographical details of Tozer’s life have been uncovered to date, it is known that he was centered a-round the area of Cape Cornwall in the south of England. As one of the greatest regions for ships, this proved a fertile area

W.B.Spencer was an accomplished ship's portraitist who worked in great Britain during the last half of the nineteenth century. He is believed to be the brother of Richard Barnett Spencer, another accomplished sea painter who worked during the same period. W.B Spencer worked mainly on commission, creating sharply detailed images of sailing vessels for commanders…

One of the more accomplished practitioners of the sophisticated medium of marine watercolor, Robins studied at the Royal Academy Schools under both Thomas Philips and the master J.M.W. Turner. As an associate of the new Watercolor Society he exhibited 317 works. He also had 412 London exhibits of which 300 were watercolors. Primarily a watercolorist…

Born in Cambridge, Wilkinson later found satisfaction living with his family in Southsea where he spent time along the Solent painting and sketching. He enrolled at Portsmouth School of Art receiving his art masters certificate, later studying under Louis Grier at St. Ives. He made numerous passages in both coastal colliers and upon deep water…

An artist of significant reputation and merit, Arthur Wellington Fowles is generally regarded as the British equivalent of the noted American marine artist, James E. Buttersworth. Where Buttersworth often portrayed vessels of the New York Yacht Club, Fowles flourished as official painter to England’s prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. Fowles was born in the town of…

Nicolas Pocock earned an immortal fame as a member of the first generation of British sea painters, following the Dutch tradition of the Van de Veldes alongside such notables as Isaac Sailmaker, Peter Monamy, Dominic Serres and Charles Brooking. The foundation of marine painting built by these men would change the art world's perceptions for…

A known artist of the Hull and Liverpool regions represented in the Merseyside Maritime Museum and other Liverpool venues, Preston is known for painting the activities of the local waters on both coasts of the United Kingdom. Pierheads, pilot ships and the wharves are most often depicted, but an occasional large square-rigged merchant ship and…

Born in London, this contemporary marine artist has excelled in fine marine art images since 1971. Prior to this he ran a success design studio and earned a membership to the Royal Academy of Industrial Artists and Designers. He attended the Sutton & Cheam School of Art and followed that with studies at the City…

Thomas Buttersworth Jr. was the middle son of the most famous family of maritime artists in history. Son of well-regarded artist Thomas Buttersworth Sr., Thomas Buttersworth Jr. was father to James E. Buttersworth, perhaps the most well-regarded maritime artist that has ever lived and the one whose work is most desired by collectors. Not many…

William Howard Yorke grew up fast under the tutelage of his artist-father William Gay Yorke in the Port of Liverpool. Born in Canada, he came to the port city as a child in 1855 with his family, where he remained the rest of his career and life. Yorke's earliest known painting, a ship portrait of…

Nicholas Matthews Condy was the son of English landscape artist Nicholas Condy (1793-1857) and while both achieved some acclaim in their lifetimes; the two are sometimes confused with each other. For this reason Nicholas Matthews Condy is sometimes referred to as Nicholas Condy the Younger. N.M. Condy was born at Union Street, Plymouth, in 1818.…

Born on the Isle of Wight where he is still resident, the son of a marine engineer in the Merchant Navy and a grandson of the owner of a fleet of trawlers, his earliest days were spent around boats and harbours, and drawing and painting his surroundings came as a natural extension to this way…

Working in the manner of David James, Walter Shaw painted almost exclusively seascapes and inshore coastal views of the area on the Cornish and Devon coasts near his home in Salcombe, England. He enjoyed painting storms and gales as well as dramatic se

British marine painter Harold Percival was a skilled watercolourist who created refined sea pieces that were both attractive and historically accurate. His technique employed subtle coloration with sharply defined detail. Percival was a membe