The strong tonal structure of the marine paintings, with their big masses, holds them together despite their rapid degeneration over time. For Ryder was an appallingly bad technician.
Thomas Chambers is best known for his charmingly naive marine paintings and landscapes. Humble and contented with his talent, Chambers rarely entered competitions seeking recognition.
Elsewhere in Europe, leading artists adopted Romantic styles: in Russia there were the portraitists Orest Kiprensky and Vasily Tropinin, with Ivan Aivazovsky specializing in marine painting, and in Norway Hans Gude painted secenes of fjords.
Wilmerding, John. American Marine Painting. Rev. ed. of A History of American Marine Painting, 1968. New York, 1987: 33-35, color repro. 32.
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British patrons in the 18th century sometimes collected paintings on religious or mythical themes by foreign artists, but at home they rarely commissioned anything other than portraits, landscapes, and marine paintings, ...
Aivazovsky continued in the tradition of the great Russian landscape painters of the early nineteenth century without recourse to imitation. He created a new tradition, a new school of painting, thus making his mark on the marine painting of his own ...
Turner was much in demand as a painter of castles and countryseats for their owners, while he also continued to excel in marine painting.
marine painting - paintings of sea life, oceans, underwater, coastal and harbor scenes *
marquetry - inlaid work of variously colored woods or other materials cut by hand or laser; see: inlay ...
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