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Shirley Bickel Evans learned to paint with seascape artists in Illinois. She has travelled around the world with her art and has illustrated 2 books. Her media are oil and pastels.
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William H. Bishop was born and brought up in the Portsmouth/Solent area of the South Coast of England. He has maintained a lifetime interest in the sea, as a sailor of dinghies, competitive racing sloops and extensive cruising. For 21 years he was a director of a family owned company which was sold in 1980 upon his father's retirement.
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A D Blake was born and lives on the coast of New Zealand. He has always been intensely interested and involved with yachting and fascinated with yachting design and construction. He first commanded a yacht at age six, the New Zealand "P" Class dinghy and has been racing a variety of yachts competitively since then.
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Mr Boden was born in Bermuda. After completing his secondary education in England and university in the United States, he returned to Bermuda, and his first love, the sea. Mark and his family winter in their Ontario, Canada, home allowing their children to attend school, but still live on a 20 ton Venus gaff ketch in Bermuda for part of the year.
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Jim was born in 1936 and grew up in a seaside suburb of Wellington, the Capital City of New Zealand. His father was a competitive sailor, his mother the daughter of another competitive sailor. The northerly course weather mark of the local yacht club was across the road from the sun porch window of the family home. His sporting fate was sealed!
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Born in London in 1932, David Brackman is considered to be one of the most outstanding marine artists working today. He is a keen yachtsman and aboard his yacht, 'Panache' has sailed in many waters, made transatlantic passages and has spent considerable time during the past 10 years cuising in the Mediterranean.
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William Bradford (April 30, 1823 – April 25, 1892) was an American romanticist painter, photographer and explorer, originally from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, near New Bedford. His early work focused on portraits of the many ships in New Bedford Harbor.
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Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817 - 14 December 1894), English marine painter, who came of an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester.
Brierly entered Sass's art-school in London, and after studying naval architecture at Plymouth he exhibited some drawings of ships at the Royal Academy in 1839.
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Arthur Briscoe was a painter in oil and watercolour and etcher of marine subjects. Arthur Briscoe was born in Birkenhead on 25th February 1873, eldest child of John Briscoe, cotton broker, and his wife Eliza Ann née Trevor, who married at Chester in 1872.
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Etcher, engraver, draughtsman illustrator, watercolourist and painter; studied in Birmingham, Paris and Italy, worked in London; drawing master to Queen Alexandra.
Began exhibiting in London in 1866.
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John Henry Bufford (1810-1870) was a lithographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.
Bufford trained "in the Pendleton shop in Boston from 1829 to 1831."
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Having spent time producing a family, completing his National Service within the British Army, going around the world by sea, living in England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Gozo, Tom has progressed a lifelong talent for painting and sculpture and steadily developed the technical side of his artistic abilities.
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From the 1870s-90s, Milton J. BURNS was one of America"s best known marine artists and a prolific illustrator. Burns was one of the few marine artists who was truly a life-long sailor. His first venture at sea was with William Bradford on the master"s famous 1869 Arctic Expedition
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Augustus Butler is a British visual artist. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Tiny, The Wonder, Weighing only 5 1/2 lbs' sold at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, Bloomsbury House 'Old Master & Traditional Prints' in 2012.
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Known for marine paintings from subjects he observed in the waters off New York, James Buttersworth lived long enough to depict the early steamship era. His career spanning sixty years was dedicated to portraits of all types of ships at sea such as racing clipper ships, steamers, and yachts.
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A Delaware artist, Scott Cameron paints the simple elegance of the America's Cup races, serene coastal marsh scenes, timeless landscape vistas and historic steamboats in a style reminiscent of the era in which they reigned.
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After studying art in Belgium, Remy chose to pursue a career on the water. He sailed around the world, and in 1980 he immigrated to Michigan, joining family already in Northern Michigan. His sailing career on the Great Lakes includes classic freighters and tugs.
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Carleton Theodore Chapman was born on September 18, 1860, in New London, Ohio and he died on February 12, 1925, in New York City, New York. He married Aurelie M. Reynaud, on November 8, 1911, Bronxville, New York.
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Rodney Charman is a self-taught artist workin primarily in oils specialising in marine scenes, distinguished by their meticulous detail and atmospheric effects. He found a niche in the U.S. on the island of Nantucket, once the whaling capital of the world.
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The paintings of C. Myron Clark range from cityscapes to landscapes to historical subjects, yet it is for his marine paintings that he is best known. He painted numerous sailing ships and often painted historic ships; one of his favorite subjects was the U.S.S. Constitution, which he painted many times.