MARINE ARTISTS

I like limited palette paintings, it focuses so nicely

Hers a John Stobart painting. Hes a living marine artist. I like this one , its called BOSTON DEPARTURE. It says it all

"HEAVY WETHER--HMS ANDROMEDA"
by John Stewart. a bit under focused but that's the way they posted it

HMS Warrior.



A painting showing the ‘Warrior’ in a storm at the mouth of the Tagus. She is shown in a heavy sea and the driving rain can be seen from the dark clouds immediately overhead. She has pulled up her sails in an endeavour to navigate through the heavy squall. The artist has placed the ship in a lighter area in the midst of the storm. In the foreground on the left is a small lateen rigged boat. The ‘Warrior’ was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy built in Portsmouth and launched in 1781. In 1799 she was part of Lord Keith’s fleet in Lisbon in October, under the command of Captain H. Savage. It is possible that the painting refers to this visit. It is also possible that the artist was drawing on his own experiences and the events he witnessed in the Royal Navy to produce this painting. In 1795 he is documented as enlisting on board HM receiving ship ‘Enterprise’ in London. He served on the ‘Caroline’ during the French wars and was invalided home from Minorca in 1800.

An English Royal Yacht under sail with a fishing boat laying a net.

Willem Van de Velte
c. 1700

Trafalgar. 2.30pm




William Lionel Wyllie.
1905

good stuff your lordship.

Thank 'ee koindly sir.

I was a bit worried about fudging up the page size as I'm using a tablet and can't re-size the things.
Is it coming out OK, or are they a mile wide?

Found a great link for all this sort of stuff. I'll paste it in a mo.

Thar she blows!

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/?ID=PAD6191


And a dictionary of American fighting ships....
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c12/congress-vi.htm

Good stuff. A powerful navy was the foremost requirement for nation building in the last five centuries.

I am honoured to be a proud owner of an original painting by chris mayger used on the double book cover "Freedoms Battle"

I am honoured to be the proud owner of an original painting by chris mayger used on the cover of the double book set "Freedoms Battle"

HARRRR!

Here be a sweet giblet from that there BBC, me bucko.

The Boats That Built Britain.

Six episodes there be, but being fresh to the world, only episode 1 shows itself on the treasure map of youtoob.

Be patient, American, for the remainin' five should be known to thee before the moon has done a cycle.

Here be The Matthew. The boat that discovered Newfie.

wow, nneat. e have several shows produced by Maryland Public TV on the boats of the Chesapeake Bay. The other Public broadcasting stations (other than MPT) seem to be suffering from a lack of interest in their local marine history (like Delaware Bay ships and Long Island boats) all had specific dimensions dictated by locks, streams and shallows .

I've just watched episode 5 tonight, and it was all about the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter and its evolution, which they reckon ended up with the ultimate in cutter design.

I shall keep my eyes peeled for any new episodes that may appear on YouTube.

One more for ye, Cap'n.

NEAT. Im going to feed this over to the big screen TV and watch it popcorn style.
Who's the narrator?

well, ae put it on nd it ws great. Then, when David got to Greenwich, I got a huge error prompt. Ill go back to Youtube and see ifn I cant repack it up. Are there other episodes? I love the "sailing with the arts" concept.

David Dimbelby is the host/narrator. He is from a well known TV and film family. (Look up the fillum 'Ice Cold In Alex'....his brother Richard plays the lead).
If I can find another episode or two, I'll post them here for you.

Hope you got it to work on the big screen in the end.

Here y'go.....