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Stephen Renard was born in Huddersfield in 1947. Although he was interested in art, and clearly gifted artistically from an early age, he chose to go to teachers training college at Liverpool University, concentrating on the sciences. After an initial career as a teacher, he became a professional portrait artist and supplemented his income as an illustrator of children's comics.
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Keith L. Reynolds has been actively painting since 1961. He is an award-winning member of the Society of Illustrators, New York, where he has been a member since 1964. Reynolds is also a member of American Society of Marine Artists.
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Adrian Rigby was born in Chorley, England in 1962. He demonstrated considerable artistic talent from an early age. Rigby is an internationally recognized, award winning artist. He studied at Blackpool Art College where he learned to paint in oil, acrylic and gouache. Rigby exhibits widely, and has sold paintings to collectors as far as Asia, Europe, America and Australia.
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Thomas Sewell Robins was probably born in London in 1810, although the date of his birth could have been 1809 since he was 70 when he died in 1880. Little is known of his childhood but, showing an early talent for art, he was admitted into the Royal Academy Schools on 22nd April, 1829.
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Leslie was a self-taught painter who was influenced early on, growing up and sailing the waters of Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Henry Sargeant was a British visual artist who was born in 1798. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Pair of Works: The First Race for the America's Cup' sold at Bonhams New York 'Important Maritime Paintings' in 2014 for $37,500. The artist died in 1868.
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Francis (Frank) Henry Schell (1830-1909) was born September 12, 1830 in Philadelphia. He came from a large family, having six brothers (including a younger brother, Frederic B. Schell, who also became a ‘Special Artist’ for Leslie’s) and a sister.
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Richard Schlecht discovered his love for art early in life, and has been fervently following his passion, particularly in watercolor, ever since. His work took a major leap in the 1980s when he took the first of many extended visits to Italy to paint the villas and countryside landscapes of Tuscany and Umbria.
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John W. Schmidt is an American painter. His work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 50 USD to 1,800 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,800 USD for U.S.S. Congress, sold at Eldred's Auction and Appraisal Services in 2019.
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Leon Alaric Shafer was a painter, etcher and illustrator best known for his maritime and military subjects. He contributed illustrations to books and to periodicals such as the New York Herald, and cover art for American Legion Monthly and The Literary Digest.
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Sheppard was a true Renaissance Man: successful as an artist, teacher, author, yachtsman, navigator and yacht designer. He studied painting under the excellent M.F.H. de Haas in New York City, and received his formal art training at the Cooper Union.
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Hans Skalagard is a world renowned marine painter. He has been described as a "living legend" by art critics. Hans is a descendant of Vikings and was born in the Faeroe Islands of Denmark in 1924.
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Naval architect, philosopher and marine painter Archibald Cary Smith acquired his taste for the water at an early age. He grew up in New York, with the eastern shore of the Hudson river for a playground. Close by his home was the shipyard of the great William Webb and across the river in Hoboken was moored the fleet of the fledgling New York Yacht Club.
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William Melbourne Smith was an “impoverished, misfit, hyperactive student who passed high school only because he could draw and paint,” wrote Paul Wood in his book “The Ingenious Life of Melbourne Smith.”
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Painter Henry Bayley Snell was born at Richmond in England on September 29, 1858. He emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen and studied at the Art Students League in New York. He married English born artist Florence Francis in 1888. It is believed that the couple first came to Bucks County to visit the Lathrop's in 1898.
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Born in Leicester, England, John Stobart began his artistic education at the Derby College of Art in 1946 and then studied at the Royal Academy between 1950-56. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1952 and was elected to the Royal Society of Marine Artists in 1956.
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“The all-embracing challenge for me as a marine artist is unifying the elements of sea,wind,light and sailing vessels into a dynamic and truthful image from my heart and mind to the canvas.”
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American sea painter William Pierce Stubbs was born in Bucksport, Maine in 1842. As the son of sea captain Reuben Stubbs his childhood years were filled with a fascination for the sea and the great sailing ships that worked their way along the Maine coast.
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Born in 1935, John Sutton is a marine and landscape painter.
John Sutton studied at the Norwich School of Art. He obtained a National Diploma in design and painting followed by Postgraduate study at the Brighton College of Art and Craft.
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Martin Swan was born in 1951 in the Isle of Wight. On leaving university Martin concentrated on becoming a professional artist. Having originally established a strong reputation as a landscape painter he is increasingly recognised as a marine artist. He has a particular interest in the Solent between the wars and the great yachts that sailed there during that time.
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D. Tayler is known for his skill as a Nautical painter. The son of a marine artist, Tayler painted the America's Cup J-Boat series as well as yachts and other yacht races.
His is a modern day painter who has studied the sea and seafaring vessels all his life.