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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 ...
The Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos wrecked on Nehalem Spit en route from Manila to Acapulco, loaded with a cargo of beeswax. The existence of the wreck was recorded in native oral history, with descendants of survivors including Chief Kilchis. It is the earliest known shipwreck in the Pacific Northwest. [1] [2] [3] Nehalem: General Warren
Manet, On the Beach, 1873. Compositionally, the painting departs from the conventions of the era. Gauguin crowds the two figures into the space of the canvas, yet they are completely independent of one another. [11]: 236 Art historians have compared this aspect of the work to the treatment of figures in Manet's On the Beach. [9]: 236
Ship of Fools (painting) Shipping by a Breakwater (J. M. W. Turner) Ships in Harbour, Evening; The Shipwreck (Turner) Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast; French frigate Sibylle (1791) The Sirens and Ulysses; The Slave Ship; Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth; Sommarnöje; The Stages of Life; Steamboats in the Port of Rouen; Storm at Sea ...
Charles Dixon was born at Goring-on-Thames in December 1872, the son of Alfred Dixon (1842–1919), a successful genre painter, who educated his son in his trade. Charles too became a professional artist, and soon had a successful practice producing nautical scenes, both watercolours of coastal life and large oil paintings of historical or contemporary naval subjects.
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He received commissions from sea captains, ship companies and members of the New York Yacht Club. [2] He collaborated with Danish-born American maritime artist Antonio Jacobsen, who was said to have painted sections of water in some of Willis' paintings. His understanding of ships' rigging is reflected in his paintings.
One woman tells Sheila Flynn how she finally ended up visiting the famed Titanic wreck at its underwater grave after a near lifelong obsession – and what the surreal journey is actually like