Archives: Artists
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Tomaso De Simone
The Neapolitan port painter, Tomaso de Simone is considered to be one of the most important ship portraitists who practiced in the Italian seaport cities. The father of noted sea painter Antonio de Simone, Tomaso specialized in oils, the majority depicting warships and merchant vessels. He also created scenes of the Battles of Lissa (1867)…
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Joseph Loy
Loy was an Italian port painter for more than fifteen years. He worked in the Gibralter region from 1865-67 and moved to Trieste afterward. This is the latest dated work uncovered so far of this artist. Painting ships from direct dockside commissions, his works ended up throughout Europe as the visiting and local captains took…
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Giuseppe Canella
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Paolo Sala
Italian artist Paolo Sala was best known as a painter of marines and portraits. A student of Camillo Boito at the school of architecture at the Brera Academy, his initial focus was on historical and romantic subjects. Although he studied and occasionally would use watercolor, he excelled at and became best known for his oil…
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Paul-Jean Clays
Recognized internationally, this important Belgian marine artist began drawing as a teenager while working as a laborer along the French coast. His early sketchbook opened the studio door of Baron Théodore Gudin, France's leading painter of sea battles, in 1838. Gudin had established many royal and state connections in Paris, where clays was his pupil.…
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Michele Renault
Michele Renault was a ship portrait artist in Livorno, Italy- a port sometimes referred to as "Leghorn". Renault often painted ship’s portraits for foreign ship captains while they were moored in Leghorn Harbor, particularly the English- a tradition he would pass to his son Luigi who was an artist famous in his own right for…
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Jean Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager
An adventurous soul, inherited partially from his father explorer Jean-Baptiste-Leonard Durand, Henri Durand-Brager explored the world's reaches. If not for some fateful moments he would have probably settled into a naval career rather than that of an artist. His youthful travels included the coasts of Africa, Asia and South America, and his repertoire contains scenes…
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John Stewart
A prominent ship chandleur, maritime merchant, and marine artist, Stewart is known to have lived a comfortable and active life in the Greenock Region of his birth. Along with his primary business of provisioning ships, where he came to know many of the Master Mariners whom frequented the Clyde River Ports, Stewart was active in…
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Charles Keith Miller
Some highly regarded marine artists have spent time working at sea, and while many mariners practiced some artistic discipline, very few ever made the transition from amateur to a full career of a professional artist. Captain C.K. Miller is a shining exception, alongside the ranks of William Coulter and Charles Robert Patterson. The Scottish-born artist…
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Margarite Rousseau
Works by Margarite Rousseau exist in international auctions and galleries, while biographical information is presently proving elusive.
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Antonio De Simone
Among the 19th and 20th century ship portraitists who practiced in Italian seaport cities, the father and son, Tommaso and Antonio de Simone are probably the best known. The son, Antonio de Simone worked in watercolor and watercolor variants, chiefly but not limited to gouache, while Tommaso, the father, is noted for working exclusively in…
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Chinese School
Paintings from the China Trade Beginning in the late 1700s, an increasing number of international merchant vessels began bringing back to their respective ports cargos of exotic objects from China which found ready markets in America and Europe. An insatiable interest in things oriental resulted in a range of exquisite objects created by Chinese artisans…
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William Anderson
This Scottish-born marine painter moved to London in the 1780s, and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy later that decade. He continued to do well into the 1830s. He was selected from a gamut of subjects, and although he is best known and recognized as a marine painter, he did paint landscapes and rustic genre…
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H. Shimidzu
Ship portraits from Japan began, in the 1920’s and 30’s to take on a more realistic and detailed appearance than the stylized renderings of ships created by Japanese artists in the 19th century. One of the best known of the Japanese ship painters from this period was H. Shimidzu. Painting from a studio in Yokohama,…
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Giovanni Luzzo
The patriarch of a family of artist to emerge in Venice, Giovanni "John" Luzzo specialized in portraits of foreign ships within the beauty of Venice. Working in watercolor and gouache on paper, his paintings are known for tight details in spite of the difficulty of the waterbase mediums, and for echos of the folk art…
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William Clark
Spending his entire life in Greenock, William Clark is widely accepted as the most talented Scottish marine artist of the 19th century. It is likely that upon his early forays into art, Clark's path crossed with marine artist Robert Salmon, an originator of luminism who worked in Greenock for a period. Like Salmon, Clark was…
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S. Volger Spence
The artist was well associated with clients from the highest echelons of society, and with his Scottish heritage, he found work in London as an illustrator of some of his countrymen’s best known literary works, such as Sir Walter Scott’s "The Tempest."
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Samuel Walters
Born at sea, the son of Miles Walters, a recognized marine artist, shipwright and seaman, Samuel Walters became one of the brightest and most enduring lights of the Liverpool School of marine art. Trained at the Liverpool Academy, Walters excelled in all facets of marine painting, but was most accomplished in ship portraiture. Briefly setting…
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Alfred Emile Stevens
The works of genre and portrait painter Alfred Emile Léopold Stevens (not to be confused with English sculptor Alfred Stevens) are well represented throughout public museums and private collections. Most often his paintings feature women of society, their Parisian homes, or marine coastal scenes. The elegance of the belle epoche inspired some of his most…
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Jens Thielsen Locher
Danish artist Jens Locher’s body of work consists primarily of canvases painted on direct commission for the British captains whom visited the Copenhagen Region of the Danish coast. Most often, he painted Kronberg Castle in the headland backgrounds.