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Barlow Moore's painting career would seem to parallel that of the heyday of British yachting. Although little is known about the biographical details of this skilled London yacht painter, he is known to have exhibited his portraits at both the Royal Academy and the British Institute.
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Robert Moore was a painter who was born in 1905. Robert Moore has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Forum Gallery and at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Astra off the Needles' sold at Sotheby's Olympia 'British & Continental Pictures including Sporting and Marine Paintings' in 2007 for $10,240.
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Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England in 1829, this pivotal marine impressionist emigrated to the United States at the age of 15 where he became a pupil of Philadelphia marine artist James Hamilton. With his younger artist brother, Thomas, he returned to England and studied at the Royal Academy and received additional instruction at the Paris Academy, which built a strong European influence in his work.
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Jenny Morgan studied at Camberwell College of Art in the 1960’s before travelling extensively as she gained a sound knowledge of the sea and ships. Her work emotively responds to the untamed element of the sea and its inspiring changing moods.
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Recognized by marine historians and curators as a master in his field, marine artist Bill Muller, in the time-honored tradition of sea painters, has lived what he paints. His canvases are imbued with a sensitivity, accuracy and vitality that comes only from first hand experience and a love for and deep understanding of his subject matter.
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A painter, illustrator and writer, Parker Newton was born in New York and lived and worked in the environs of Toronto, Canada; New York City; and the state of Connecticut. He died in Neuilly, France (a Paris suburb) on May 13, 1928.
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Julia O’Malley-Keyes resides in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where she lives and paints in her studio. Her affinity for the ocean is reflected in her luminous coastal landscapes, seascapes, and paintings of classic yachts including the “Big J’s”, Endeavour, Endeavour II, Shamrock V, Velsheda, and Ranger.
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Thomas Oliver was born on Isle of Wight. He has been living in and around Cowes for many years.
The artist has been best known for his magnificent paintings of classic yachts. Thomas Oliver is certainly considered one of the finest marine painters of this century, and is represented in many important collections both in Europe and the United States.
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Robert James Pailthorpe was possibly from Rhode Island, active (at least) in the 1960s and 70s. He may have lived in the Virgin Islands as reproductions of his charcoal sketches of the USVI are quite common.
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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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Born in Normandy in 1941, Yves Parent was exposed to art and the sea from an early age (his mother was an art teacher). His university studies included law and political science; he spent several years in the French civil service, being stationed on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.
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Charles Parsons was a British-born artist who emigrated to America, where he painted in oil and watercolor as well as working in lithography. After being apprenticed to George Endicott, Charles Parsons worked for Nathaniel Currier, later Currier & Ives. He became head of the art department of Harper’s publishing firm in 1863.
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Although little is known about this artist who adeptly worked in both watercolors and oils, records show that he sailed to the far east in the 1860's. (Traditionally, the majority of sea painters lacked any gallery representation, preferring instead to work directly from commissions by the vessel owners themselves).
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Born in Denver, Colorado, in 1931, Peterson spent four years at sea with the U.S. Navy. His principal duty- as a hand on an ocean-going tug sailing the Aleutian Islands, North Pacific, Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean- imprinted the northern waters indelibly in his mind.
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Vincent del Piano has been a marine painter for over 25 years with lifelong experience as a sailor and boat builder. He was born in Boston, MA in 1939 and was a resident of Winthrop and Marblehead until the year 2001. He is currently residing in Vienna, Maine.
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Although little is known about this artist who adeptly worked in both watercolors and oils, records show that he sailed to the far east in the 1860's. (Traditionally, the majority of sea painters lacked any gallery representation, preferring instead to work directly from commissions by the vessel owners themselves).
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Maarten Platje was born in Rotterdam in 1967.Already in his youth, the Dutch landscape with its waterways and ships was the subject of his drawings and paintings.
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Burnell Poole was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He married in 1920 to his only wife, Constance; they had a son, Burnell Poole, Jr., in 1924.
During the First World War he took hundreds of photographs of the work of US Navy shipyards.
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Born in Gloucester, England in 1830, Raleigh was a sailor from boyhood, running away to sea at age ten aboard a British naval vessel commanded by his uncle. He served in the American navy during the Mexican war and later served as a merchant seaman. In 1877 he settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts and was listed as a marine painter.
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Robert was born in Beverly, Massachusetts and grew up on the north shore of Boston spending much of his childhood at the ocean in Wells, Maine.