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The Beeswax Wreck is a shipwreck off the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, discovered by Craig Andes near Cape Falcon in 2013 in Tillamook County. The ship, thought to be the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos that was wrecked in 1693, was carrying a large cargo of beeswax , lumps of which have been found scattered along Oregon's ...
Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut: 28.9 x 40.3 Beech Trees at Norbury Park c. 1797 National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin: 44 x 43.1 Turner was invited to Norbury Park in Surrey by the owner William Lock in 1797. The painting was bequeathed to the gallery in 1900 by Henry Vaughan. [4] [5] Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus: 1798 Tate ...
The work was first exhibited at the Prague Academy exhibition in 1824 with the title An Idealized Scene of an Arctic Sea, with a Wrecked Ship on the Heaped Masses of Ice. [2] Considered one of Friedrich's masterpieces, the radical composition and subject matter were unusual for their time and the work was met with incomprehension.
As he was creating the painting, the artist used a complex painting technique, including a preliminary drawing with an undercoat graphite pencil, a few paint coats of various textures and directions, scumble, and overtone, strokes of various shape, thickness, and length, and diverse textured compactions. The painting was made in several stages.
James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) was an English painter who specialized in maritime art and is considered among the foremost ship portraitists in the United States of the nineteenth century. [1] His paintings are particularly known for their meticulous detail, dramatic settings, and grace in movement.
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Albany Institute of History and Art, New York West Rock, New Haven: 1849: Oil on canvas: 27 + 1 ⁄ 8 in × 40 + 1 ⁄ 8 in (690 mm × 1,020 mm) New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut [4] Mountain Landscape: 1849: Oil on canvas: 34.6 × 48.5 cm: Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, Indiana Above the Clouds at Sunrise: 1849: Oil on canvas ...
The ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks’ is set to be recovered from the bottom of the ocean - along with its treasures which are believed to be worth up to $20bn in today’s money.