Archives: Artists
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Henry Moore
Of the many fine marine artists produced by 19th century England, most emerged through the major seaports such as Liverpool and London. One prominent exception was the seaport town of Hull on England’s East Yorkshire coast. Beginning early in the century this small seaport produced many very fine local sea painters and ship portraitists in…
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J.A. Moutte
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Johann H. L. Meijer
The influential Dutch artist Johan Meijer was born in Amsterdam in 1809. At an early age he became a pupil of Dutch painters George Pieter Westenberg and Jan Wilhelm Pienerman. Later, he studied at the Amsterdam Academy where he collaborated with Joseph Jodocus Moerenhout. Painting in oils, Meijer also studied in Paris and was active…
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Abraham Jansz Storck
Abraham Storck is widely considered one of the greatest marine masters of the second generation Dutch school. Spending his entire life in Amsterdam, his style shows the marked influence of Willem van de Velde the younger and Ludolph Bakhuizen, both prominent Dutch marine painters whom Storck is believed to have studied with. Abraham Storck was…
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Vilhelm Melbye
The brother of Anton and Fritz, both Danish artists, Vilhelm Knut Frederik Melbye was born in Denmark and would finish his career as a Professor in the Copenhagen Academy, appointed in 1880. His years between would see him work out of the important venues of Dusseldorf, Venice, Paris and London. His paintings may almost be…
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James Hamilton
Born in Belfast, Ireland, James Hamilton moved with his family to Philadelphia in 1834 at the age of 15. Largely self-taught, he was most successful with his marine paintings, but also excelled at engraving and book illustration. Widely traveled, Hamilton sold a total of 109 paintings in 1875 which financed a painting trip around the…
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Richard Dey de Ribcowsky
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Paul L. Maze
Born to French parents in the Normandy coast city of Le Havre, Maze developed ties to England through his early formal education across the channel. He would strengthen his connections to both countries in military service during World Wars I & II. He nurtured his artistic passions by traveling to study in Italy in 1914…
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Carl G. Evers
Carl G. Evers was a 20th Century maritime artist known for his extraordinary detail and accuracy in representing working ships both from merchant and naval fleets. Born in Germany, his British father was a marine engineer and his mother was an artist, so he was encouraged early to the study of ships and in how…
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Everhardus Koster
Recognized as one of the finest painters ever born in the Hague, Koster worked throughout Holland, Germany and England during his career. Led to each country to study in their finest academies, he gaining acclaim amongst his peers and professors. Yet always he returned home to the north coast of the Hague and the town…
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Franz Richard Unterberger
A romantic artist, Franz Richard Unterberger found great joy and success in painting. Known widely for his epic, vast, visual landscapes of the Immortal City of Venice, the architecture of Naples, and the pristine beauty of the Amalfi Coast; at heart he sought to portray his personal credo, "il puro vero" – pure truth. By…
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Heinrich Andreas Sophus Petersen
This German marine painter, the son of marine painter Lorenz Petersen, was born in Altona, Germany in 1834. He is known to have emulated his father's artistic style at a young age, and painted primarily ship portraits for most of his career. With his father's passing in 1870, he soon took up his place painting…
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Gaetano Capone, Jr.
Gaetano Capone practiced in his artistic passion in Italy, and after studying with Palizzi and Moretti in Naples, he sailed through the Mediterranean and northward across the Atlantic in 1883. The very next year, he exhibited his first American painting in the National Academy of Design and never looked back. Primarily a landscape artist, he…
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Elie Anatole Pavil
Elie Pavil came to France in 1892 from his family home in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine. With some artistic works under his belt, he acquired a position to study at the Julian Academy under William Bouguereau, a renown figurative painter, and he blended into his personal style the academic mastery he observed…
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William Raymond Dommersen
Living a traditional existence as a well-traveled continental artist, William Dommersen visited the shores of Holland, Belgium, France, England and Italy. He produced paintings which celebrate his journeys with his father and the essence of the local maritime cultures. His accomplished works often combine the brightest qualities of landscapes with the cool mystery of the…
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Johan Adolph Rust
Born in Amsterdam, Dutch artist Johan Rust studied with the master architectural painter Cornelis Springer. He worked mostly in oil for his most accomplished and desirable paintings, but also utilized watercolor and sepia. Rust painted very fine quality seascapes and river scenes with exceptional composition and light qualities. His style was comparable to Schotel and…
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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…
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Jean Mannheim
Eventually earning a high rank amongst landscape painters of Southern California, Jean Mannheim's circular route to California started in Germany. Drafted into the national army, Mannheim chose to flee to France, where he put his bookbinding skills to use to support an early art education at the Ecole Delecluse and Academie Colarossi. He left Paris…
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Anton Schranz
Schranz (father to the fine marine/landscape painter,John Schranz) was born in Ochsenhausen, Germany in 1769. The artist later settled on the island of Minorca, Spain, where he spent the bulk of his life until finally moving to Malta in his last few years and passing away there in 1839.
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B.J.O. Nordfeldt
Born near Sweden’s southern coast, Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt immigrated to the United States with his family in 1892. Olsson was his actual surname but he adopted his mother’s maiden name, Nordfeldt, to avoid being confused with a maritime artist of a similar name. Nordfeldt spent a year studying at the Art Institute of Chicago…