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Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1 ]
A Sail Boat at Rouen 1827-28 Tate Britain, London: 60.3 x 90.8 Brighton Beach, with the Chain Pier in the Distance, from the West 1827 Tate Britain, London: 90.2 x 121.9 'Now for the Painter' (Rope) – Passengers Going on Board 1827 Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester: 174.3 x 223.5
One painting Van Gogh worked on while in the village was Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (F413). He described the painting in a letter to Theo: "I made the drawing of the boats when I left very early in the morning, and I am now working on a painting based on it, a size 30 canvas with more sea and sky on the right.
At around 11am on 29 June 2012 a visitor to the gallery, Andrew Shannon, punched the painting causing "huge damage, shocking damage" [4] with "an extensive three-branched tear". [ 5 ] After 18 months of restoration work, on 1 July 2014, the painting was re-hung in the gallery, behind protective glass. [ 3 ]
A very large boat laden with coal on the Rhône, moored at the quay. Seen from above it was all glistening and wet from a shower; the water was a white yellow and clouded pearl-grey, the sky lilac and an orange strip in the west, the town violet. On the boat, small workmen, blue and dirty white, were coming and going, carrying the cargo ashore.
The floating studio enabled Monet to paint views from the Seine that would otherwise be inaccessible, beginning with a series of paintings of the sailing boats at Petit-Gennevilliers. [ 3 ] Monet lived near the Seine throughout his life and painted his studio boat on several occasions, both at Argenteuil and at Giverny , where he later lived.
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William Hodges, for example, who was trained to draw at William Shipley's Academy (studying under Richard Wilson), was hired by the Admiralty to finish his pictures from Cook's 1772 voyage for publication upon reaching home in 1775. [7] Captains also commissioned artists to paint portraits of their ships.
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