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unusual facts about marine painter



Fritz Melbye

Fritz Melbye (24 August 1826 - 14 December 1869) was a Danish marine painter, the brother of Anton Melbye and Vilhelm Melbye who were also marine painters.

William Halsall

William Formby Halsall (born 1841) was a marine painter born in Kirkdale, England.


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Cecil Higgs

Higgs eventually settled in Sea Point, however the influence of the sea in her paintings led to her label as a marine painter.

Charles Kimball

Charles F. Kimball, 19th-century American pastoral landscape and marine painter

Claude Joseph Vernet

The sight of the sea at Marseilles and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on the Tyrrhenian Sea) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studio of a marine painter, Bernardino Fergioni.

Frank Knox Morton Rehn

Frank Knox Morton Rehn (April 12, 1848 - July 7, 1914) was a marine painter and president of Salmagundi Club.

James Carmichael

James Wilson Carmichael (1799–1868), British marine painter, also often referred to as John Wilson Carmichael

Teylers Eerste Schilderijenzaal

One of the first large canvases to be purchased (1825) was Storm at sea, by the marine painter Johannes Christiaan Schotel.

Tom Pocock

Tom Pocock's family included such luminaries as: Vice-Admiral Sir George Pocock, K.B. (who was the captor of Havana in the Seven Years War), the marine painter Nicholas Pocock as well as his aunt Doris Pocock who was an author of girls' school stories.