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1949: Born in Yorkshire in 1949, his formal training was taken in the north of England.
1976: Dews first exhibition. Since 1976 he has had a continual presence at the galleries of his London representative Oliver Swann, see Tryon Galleries & Royal Exchange Art Gallery.
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Charles Edward Dixon (8 December 1872 - 12 September 1934) was a British maritime painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work was highly successful and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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In the art world, there are many good contemporary painters, but few great ones. Englishman Louis Dodd was one of those few.
Connoisseur Magazine stated, "Dodd is a painter of 17th and 18th century marine art, both ship portraiture and port cities. His ability is unsurpassed...
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Clement Drew is best known as a painter of stormy seascapes of the New England coastline, but was a jack of all trades, including librarian, art dealer, framer, photographer, realtor and avid abolitionist. He was born in Kingston, Massachusetts in 1806 and lived and worked in Boston from 1827 to 1873.
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Simon Dufrais was born in 1960, and from a very early age he showed a prodigious interest in the sea. This exceptionally talented artist studied at the West Surrey College of Art and Design and also at Reigate College of Art, and after graduating he worked as a freelance illustrator of historical themes.
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James Duggan was born in Charlotte, NC and spent many of his summers sailing on Buzzard's Bay in Massachusetts. It was there that he developed an interest in America's Cup racing and combined his passion for painting with his love of sailing and the rocky coast of New England.
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DUNCAN, Edward, a water-colour painter, was born in London in 1803. He was articled to Robert Havell, the aquatint engraver, and was thus afforded frequent opportunities of studying, and occasionally of copying, the works of William Havell.
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Thomas Goldsworth 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 found.
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I live in a small village in Holland in the neighborhood of Rotterdam. I was already fascinated by everything about sailing. As the son of a tugboat captain I spend from my 5th year all my spare time on the water. I endlessly made drawings of boats on newspapers and pieces of paper. The foundation for all my marine art is ever based on those early experiences.
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Born in Trenton, New Jersey, on Nov. 7, 1913 to former Judge Charles H. English and his wife Montie Arbogast English, the American marine painter John Arbogast English was known as "Jack" to his friends. He has a first-hand knowledge of his subject matter that becomes apparent upon viewing his highly detailed and meticulously rendered paintings of sailing craft.
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Kenneth Evans, marine artist Figurative Realism in Studio, more Impressionistic En Plein Air. His favorite themes are large nautical scenes and historical marine scenes. A native of coastal Stamford, he now resides in Yarmouth Port, MA.
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Carl Evers is a contemporary painter of maritime subjects, mostly in watercolor of tugs, freighters, liners, naval ships and ships in coastal waters. He was born in Dortmund, Germany and studied at the Slade School in London and in Sweden, before emigrating to the United States in 1947.
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No details of the life of Franklin Fairchild found on the internet.
His work seems to boil down to a series of four lithographs of the matches of the America's Cup in 1885, 1895, 1930 and 1934.
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Thomas Fairland (1804 – October 1852) was an English lithographer, engraver and portrait painter.
Fairland showed an early interest in drawing and practiced from nature in Kensington Gardens in London.
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Painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City in 1871 to German violinist Karl Feininger and American singer Elizabeth Feininger. He spent his childhood in New York City and became interested in art at a young age. Although born in New York, Lyonel Feininger lived and worked mostly in Germany.
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Self taught artist Tony Fernandes began drawing and painting at an early age, the works of the C20th's greatest cartoonists Picasso, Gillray, Rowlandson, Giles, Cruikshank, Andre Francois and Goya captured and fuelled his imagination.
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Alessandro dimostra fin da bambino un’innata passione per il mare, le navi e le barche a vela, oltre ad un’abilità nel disegno. Compie i primi studi nautici a Venezia, nell’isola di San Giorgio Maggiore. Nasce in quel periodo il suo amore per il Dinghy 12 piedi, piccola barca monoposto con una sola vela “alla portoghese” sulla quale in laguna impara ad andare a vela.
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Former butcher Richard Firth has become one of the world’s leading marine artists, after teaching himself with a beginners’ painting-by-numbers kit.
Mr Firth now sells his work for up to £40,000 a piece in some of the most prestigious auction houses, including Christies in New York.
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The marine paintings of Anton Otto Fischer (1882-1962) capture the nuances of sea life that only an active participant could recreate. An orphan boy born in Germany, Fischer ran away to sea at the tender age of 16, spending eight years on a variety of sailing ships.
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"Painting should be as light as breath on glass."Representational (well, mostly) artist located in Jersey City.