#marine painting

[clove-pinks]

An English frigate in choppy waters in the Tagus passing the Belem Tower (details), John Thomas Serres (1759-1825).

[lionofchaeronea]

The English Merchant Ship Malabar, William Clark, 1836

[animula-vagula-blandula]

Marine Paintings 🩵

[geritsel]

Frederick Judd Waugh - The Great Deep, c.1909

[ltwilliammowett]

Racing Home - the James  Baines and Red jacket, by Henry Scott (1911-2005)

[funsizeart]

Orange Spotted bobtail squid watercolour painting. 

[i12bent]

Jens Søndergaard (Oct. 4, 1895 - 1957) was a Danish painter and master of color - with a strong regional association to Thy, my own birth place. His dad had a bicycle shop i Hurup, and young Jens was an apprentice house painter there for a while… After that it was time for the Royal Academy, but he frequently returned to the wild West Coast of Denmark for inspiration.

Above: Aftendønninger. Vesterhav, 1924-8 - oil on canvas (SMK)

[galleryofart]

Ships in Distress in a Storm

Artist: Peter Monamy (English, 1681–1749) Marine painter

Date: c 1720-1730

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: TATE Britain

Description

Peter Monamy was born in London, though his family were originally from the Channel Island of Guernsey and probably of Huguenot (French Protestant) ancestry. He was the first English-born marine painter of note, the genre having been brought to Britain by Dutch artists in the late 17th century. This scene of a storm at sea follows the Dutch tradition of such pictures. Although disaster seems inevitable, the clearing blue sky offers hope. It does not necessarily relate to an actual event, though for contemporary viewers it may have brought to mind the ‘Great Storm’ of 1703 which wrecked many ships at sea.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The ship insignia Christianus Qvintus at the Battle of Køge Bay, 1 July 1677. One of the last oil paintings by the Danish painter Christian Mølsted (1862-1930).

[loiladadiani]

"View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus" (1856)

Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

Russia managed to produce genius-caliber poets, writers, dancers, and choreographers before, during, and after the period when the Tzarist Empire was imploding. I know I keep repeating this because it is so amazing to me.

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Armenian Romantic painter considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. He was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.

Aivazovsky was educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He eventually became the appointed main painter of the Russian Navy. He was sponsored by the state and was well-regarded during his lifetime. The saying "worthy of Aivazovsky's brush", popularized by Anton Chekhov, was used in Russia to describe something lovely. He remains highly popular in Russia today.

The painting above sits in a private collection at present. It sold for almost $5 million at Sotheby's in 2012, making Aivazovsky one of the most expensive Russian painters.

[echo-bleu]

[ID: digital painting (sketch) of seven colourful small boats on calm water, with the edge of a walkway in the foreground.]

One hour plein air study. I'm not used to plein air drawing on my Ipad! And I tried to go at this more like a painting than a sketch (block out shapes/colours first and then move to details) so it was a challenge.

[ID: process video of the painting above]

[ID: photo of the painting above on an ipad, in front of the blurry boats]

[clove-pinks]

A pair of Mediterranean seascapes: a capriccio of a coastal view; and a naval battle. Circle of Orazio Grevenbroeck (1676–1729).

[lionofchaeronea]

Storm-Tossed Frigate, Thomas Chambers (1808-1869)

[viviennehollisart]

Ethereal water creatures, I think they're the unicorns of the underworld...

Yellow Seahorse

The yellow seahorse Swam as One Finding her treasures Of Silver stones And us mere mortals Think there's none

Our human hands Wanting those treasures Shallowy go Into the crust We pull them back out ... Just a handful of dust!

Shop: Yellow Seahorse

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

The greatest marine painter of all time, Ivan Aivazovsky. Utterly magnificent!

Title: Battle of Cesme at Night

Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky

Date: 1848

Style: Romanticism

Genre: Battle Painting

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[ltwilliammowett]

U.S. Frigate Potomac bombarding Malay Forts of Kuala Batu, Sumatra in Retaliation for the Pirate Assaults on the Salem Vessel Friendship in 1851, by Louis Dodd (1943-2006)