Archives: Artists

Hemy was one of the nineteenth century’s most skilled masters of coastal and harbor painting. Extremely popular during his lifetime he achieved substantial recognition as a marine artist among both critics and collectors. His painting "Pilchards" (1897) is considered one of the all time masterpieces of the maritime genre. Born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Hemy spent time…

Born into the Victorian age, Gribble was raised in South Kensington, where he studied at the school of art, under Albert Toft. He took to art as a scholarly profession, studying for a time in Belgium before heading for London. Exposed to the height of British marine painting, he settled in Dorsett, becoming a resident…

Parker Greenwood was an accomplished Liverpool artist well known for his ship portraiture, which included many of the impressive Atlantic liners, painted on direct commissions from the Cunard & White Star Lines. He depicted the graceful sailing greyhounds of the 19th century, as well as a great variety of shipping and maritime activities. Greenwood was…

A Londoner, most of the recorded history about the life of George Cochrane Kerr relates strictly to his skill with his chosen medium, watercolor. It is known he went abroad to France to study in the 1870s, and impassioned works of the country's coastal views dominate his output during this decade. Once returned to Britain,…

Samuel Phillips Jackson was an accomplished watercolorist as well as an exceptional oil painter. Born in Bristol, England, in 1830, he was a pupil of his father, also named Samuel, who was another well known artist of the period. Elected as an associate of the British watercolor society in 1853, he toured widely and exhibited…

Born in London, the senior member and best known of a family of painters, Abraham Hulk studied in Holland at the Amsterdam Academy under portrait painter Jean Augustin Daiwaille. He is one of the very few only foreign-born artists ever to be admitted to this prestigious academy. Early on he turned from portraits to marine…

The youngest brother of noted British marine watercolorist Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) and Thomas Hemy (1852-1937) also a marine painter, Bernard Hemy was born in Australia where his family had emigrated in 1852. Like both of his siblings, he later returned to his family’s traditional home at Newcastle-on-Tyne where he settled to paint for the…

A period artist of the last quarter of the British 19th Century, the paintings of Edmunds are as desirable for their artistic merit as they are for their strong historic content. As an artist Edmunds is one we have noticed previously, but very little public information exists about him. His technical strength and ability are…

William Elmes painted in London at the turn of the 18th century. He is known to have exhibited at the London Academy as early as 1797. Today his work resides in the permanent collections of the Peabody Museum, the U.S. Naval Academy and Yale University among other important venues. This rare painting, composed shortly after…

Born in Nottingham, England, Edwin Ellis studied under Henry Dawson, the father of noted sea painter Montague Dawson. The artist originally started his working life in a Nottingham lace factory, but soon moved to London where he spent 23 years of his working career painting primarily marine views and landscapes. In London, Ellis exhibited at…

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

The English artist Fredrick Haynes was a gifted sea painter whose paintings were exhibited little during his lifetime. Although not a well known artist, Haynes’ paintings show a good deal of merit in their treatment of sea, sky and color, all composed

Hardy is known primarily for his works of vessels of ample size and sail area; as well he popularized professional fishing in many of his works. He was a prolific artist who worked in oil and watercolors often heightened with bodycolour. He garnered a greater attention with his watercolors and as a result, these works…

Charles Gregory was born and painted his entire life on the isle of wight, known then, as now, as the yachting capitol of Great Britain and where the schooner yacht AMERICA captured the cup that still bears her name. Gregory was quite well known in his lifetime and considered the premier yacht portraitist of his…

Born within a family of painters, Arthur Joseph Meadows may rightly be considered the leading member of this prodigious and prolific group. His father James Meadows, Sr. instilled in him a technical appreciation for accurate coastal views of Europe, and young Arthur set out to see and paint as many as he could find. Traveling…

De Lacy was born in Sunderland, England and took his artistic training at Lambeth, South Kensington and the National Gallery. He worked initially as an illustrator for periodicals such as the London Illustrated News, Graphic, and sporting magazines. He eventually became known as a painter of Thames river shipping scenes, marine views and battle portraits.…

Percy Dalton painted in the early 20th century and created strong images highlighting the past and present British and American seafaring traditions. His body of work includes a number of excellent ship portraits such as this fine rendering of the American flag brig NEPTUNE. He worked mainly in watercolors with strong attention to accuracy in…

Thomas G. Dutton is considered not only the finest nineteenth century lithographer (and also one of the most prolific) to record shipping and shipping scenes, he is also a noted watercolorist and oil painter. He is most widely recognized for his lithographs, yet his excellent marine paintings are also widely collected when they can be…

Drummond was a member of the royal Scottish Academy and the royal society of British artists. He exhibited with both as well as other top London galleries in his day, achieving a significant measure of success. His works are in the Victoria & Albert mu

Monamy felt that a larger object should offset, contrast and balance smaller objects in the picture. In this posture, he is considered the "most distinguished member of the immediate followers of the Dutch tradition". His popularity and success was highlighted by his being awarded the decoration of the gallery at Vauxhall Gardens for marine paintings.…