Origin: British

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

British watercolorist Robert Pritchett was a London artist who specialized in marine views and landscapes. He was listed as a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1859 and was also a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Between 1851 and 1877 his works were exhibited at both the Royal Academy and Suffolk…

Although not a Liverpool artist, Wilson is included among their ranks because many of his paintings suggest a Liverpool influence. He was essentially a painter of the Hull Marine School being based there for most of his career. Five of his paintings survive at the Town Docks Museum in Hull. Wilson specialized in ship’s portraiture,…

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…

Believed to have lived his entire life in England, he traveled the world as an active merchant captain, and ship portraits by him dating as early as 1907 have been located.

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…

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…

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…

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…

No single artist contributed more to recording the naval side of the French revolutionary wars than Thomas Whitcombe. His output was vast, including fifty paintings for plates in "Naval Achievements of Great Britain", published after the wars and at least one hundred additional paintings for wartime engravings. Born in London around 1752, little is known…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

Huggins joined the East India Company while still a young man and made several voyages to the Far East. He first learned to paint while in China. In 1814, the artist returned to London and established a studio near the East India Company offices. Beginning with paintings of East India Company vessels, he soon was…