Archives: Artists
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Fred Pansing
Born in Bremen, Germany, Pansing became a sailor at age 16. After five years at sea, he settled in Hoboken, New Jersey establishing himself as a marine painter and portraitist in 1865. With excellent draftsmanship he also worked in New York City and Brooklyn as an artist illustrating sheet music and painting names on steamboats.…
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Jack L. Gray
Marine artist and illustrator Jack Lorimer Gray is widely recognized as an accomplished 20th century artist who focused on the challenges of humans working upon the open sea. A lifelong sailor who handled a multitude of ships with a captain's expertise, the Nova Scotia born man lived a majority of his life onboard one of…
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Gyrth Russell
Artists often become real, yet intangible, sources of national pride to their respective homelands, and their obtainable works of art serve as the direct links. Gyrth Russell cultivated this as an artist who traveled abroad in connection with the Canadian armed forces. As a young man, he witnessed the devastation and hope of World War…
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Theodore Victor Carl Vallenkamph
The Swedish-American marine painter T.V.C.Vvallenkamph was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1868. He emigrated to the United States, setting up his studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1899. He was an active member of the Boston Art Club and is listed in
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Antonio Maria de Reyna Manescau
A premier creator of painted views of the immortal city of canals, Antonio Maria de Reyna Manescau began life and his artistic passion in Malaga, studying at the Spanish city's School of Fine Art. Encouraged to study abroad, he arrived in Rome and traveled on to Venice as early as 1876, and immediately began a…
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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…
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Theodore Lux Feininger
Theodore lux Feininger was a skilled painter, writer and teacher who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910. He first studied painting in Germany during the 1920’s under Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer. He emigrated to this country in the 1930’s holding his first U.S. exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in 1932, and at New…
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Theodore Alexander Weber
At the age of 16, Theodore Weber decided art would be his chosen profession. He obtained an apprenticeship with Berlin's resident expert painter of landscapes and marine scenes, Wilhelm August Leopold Christian Krause, in 1854. After two years of intense study with Krause, Weber set out on his own, heading for the activity and acclaim…
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Isaac Sailmaker
Known as "the father of British sea painting", Isaac Sailmaker ranks among the isles' first marine artists. Born in Holland, he came to England very young and worked in the household of art dealer George Geldorf. This atmosphere led him into his long career of painting highly detailed records of the British navy. Identifying Sailmaker’s…
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Herman Herzog
Born in Bremen, Germany, Herzog studied at the Dusseldorf Academy with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and then with renowned Norwegian landscape painter Hans Gude. He then became Gude’s apprentice, painting numerous locations in Western Europe and Norway known for their beauty and grandeur. Herzog soon attracted the attention of the European and Russian nobility who became…
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Anton Otto Fischer
Born into extreme poverty in Regensburg, Germany in 1882, Fischer escaped to sea and served in a variety of merchant sail and steam vessels. He finally made his way ashore in New York at the turn of the century where he applied as a model and handyman for the well known American illustrator A.B. Frost.…
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Joseph Semple
One of the pivotal British Pierhead painters, Joseph Semple painted portraits in oil of some of the last wooden sailing ships ever built. Nineteenth century shipyards in America and Belfast continued to build capable sailing ships in the traditional methods with wood while British yards were primarily working in iron and then steel. Semple held…
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Charles J. Waldron
Irish born Liverpool artist Charles Waldron enjoyed an excellent vantage point for observing the never ending variety of ships and boats that entered Liverpool Harbor at his studio across the Mersey River in Seacombe. At this location he also practiced his trade as an "oil and colour merchant". Much of Waldron’s work was painted for…
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George C. Stratemeyer
George C. Stratemeyer was a resident of Honolulu, and served as the official customs bureau port surveyor for the republic of Hawaii. The republic was formed by a consortium of planters and businessmen in 1894, deposing the Hawaiian monarchy. Sanford B. Dole assumed their presidency, and pushed for annexation by the United States, which officially…
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Martin Rico y Ortega
Considered a definitive 19th century painter of scenes of the immortal city of Venice, alongside American Thomas Moran and Peruvian Federico del Campo, Spanish artist Martin Rico y Ortega mastered light qualities within his romantic real-life compositions. Born in Madrid, he would later make his home in Paris, and annually summered on the northwest Italian…
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Arthur David McCormick
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James Bell
James Bell was listed in the Liverpool directory of 1905 as a maritime artist and former sailor, but little else is known about the artist. He is said to have served aboard the ships SS POLITICIAN and RMS KARINA. The artist appears to have specialized in ship portraits on milk glass, all of similar design…
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Henry Reuterdahl
A specialist in painting naval scenes, marine artist Henry Reuterdahl turned his self-taught talents into several occupations. Employed first as an illustrator and war correspondent, he soon was commissioned to paint scenes and portraits for military agencies and important individuals. He was an official artist for the U.S. Navy during World War I. He chronicled…
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Stanley Wingate Woodward
Woodward was born in Rockport, Massachusetts, the locale of the artist’s first direct inspiration. He was influenced greatly by the natural beauty of the rocky New England coastline. As a result, the greatest portion of his work are marines in the media of painting, etching and illustration. During his long life, he contributed to many…
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Andrea Tavernier