Author: Roger FinchPublisher: Hutchinson
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Pierhead Painters
Author: Roger FinchPublisher: Hutchinson
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Pierhead Painters
Author: Roger FinchPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911403107
Category : Marine painters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reuben Chappell
Author: Robert JonesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781841145457
Category : Marine painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Pierhead painting is the term applied to the work of artists who specialised in painting portraoits of ships for the seamen who manned them" -- Jacket.
Art, Artisans and Apprentices
Author: James AyresPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782977422
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Before the foundation of academies of art in London in 1758 and Philadelphia in 1805, most individuals who were to emerge as artists trained in workshops of varying degrees of relevance. Easel painters began their careers apprenticed to carriage, house, sign or ship painters, whilst a few were placed with those who made pictures. Sculptors emerged from a training as ornamental plasterers or carvers. Of the many other trades in a position to offer an appropriate background were ÔlimningÕ, staining, engraving, surveying, chasing and die-sinking. In addition, plumbers gained the right to use oil painting and, for plasterers, the application of distemper was an extension of their trade. Central to the theme of this book is the notion that, for those who were to become either painters or sculptor, a training in a trade met their practical needs. This ÔtrainingÕ was of an altogether different nature to an ÔeducationÕ in an art school. In the past, prospective artists were offered, by means of apprenticeships, an empirical rather than a theoretical understanding of their ultimate vocation. James Ayres provides a lively account of the inter-relationship between art and trade in the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, in both Britain and North America. He demonstrates with numerous, illustrated examples, the many cross-overs in the Ôart and mysteryÕ of artistic training, and, to modern eyes, the sometimes incongruous relationships between the various trades that contributed to the blossoming of many artistic careers, including some of the most illustrious names of the ÔlongÕ eighteenth century.
Spitalfields Life
Author: The Gentle AuthorPublisher: Saltyard Books
ISBN: 9781444703962
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London..." Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. Everything you seek in London can be found here - street life, street art, markets, diverse food, immigrant culture, ancient houses and history, pageants and parades, rituals and customs, traditional trades and old family businesses. Spend a night in the bakery at St John, ride the rounds with the Spitalfields milkman, drop in to the Golden Heart for a pint, meet a fourth-generation paper bag seller, a mudlark who discovers treasure in the river Thames, a window cleaner who sees ghosts and a master bell-founder whose business started in 1570. Join the bunny girls for their annual reunion, visit the wax sellers of Wentworth Street and discover the site of Shakespeare's first theatre. All of human life is here in Spitalfields Life.
The Gulbrandsen Family. Last of the Norwegian Pierhead Painters
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789188967312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Boken handlar om Olaf Gulbrandsen och hans två söner vilka kom att bli de sista konstnärerna som levde på att måla och sälja fartygsporträtt till kaptener och andra besättningsmedlemmar.
A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner
Author: Christopher DeakesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493077627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
From around 1880, for almost a hundred years, shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted their magnificent liners as well as the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life onboard. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on postcards and posters of the day and were used to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was born a whole genre that produced tens of thousands of paintings which formed a wonderful record of the great era of the passenger liner. In 1900, there were over thirty shipping companies operating passenger liners across the North Atlantic. Other oceans were similarly served. But now, with just a few exceptions, the companies and their liners have disappeared along with the art they once inspired. Little remains to recall this aspect of our maritime past except the postcards; and they tell an evocative story of the vanished world of elegant ships and leisurely travel, of social and political times much changed by the history of the past century. Here, brought vividly to life in more than 500 colourful postcards, are the ships on which so many of our predecessors sailed—as emigrants, soldiers, administrators, or simply as tourists—in days long past. These cards, which are now highly collectable, show how steamships developed over the years, but they are also a fine tribute to the artists who painted them. This volume also includes a glossary of some 170 illustrators, which forms an important reference section, and advice on collecting.
Robert Feke, the Early Newport Portrait Painter and the Beginnings of Colonial Painting
Author: William Carey PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Sketch
Author: Collecting and Studying Ship Portraits
Author: James ShuttleworthPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039171443
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Ship portraits include paintings, prints, and photographs. A ship portrait is often more than just an image of a vessel. This book focuses primarily on paintings and prints, discussing the content of a portrait and how to interpret the information in it. For the new collector and current collector alike, students, ship modelers, and curators this book includes tools to help you navigate sources, auctions, research, flags, funnel marks, signatures, attributions, dates, condition, details, and restoration of ship portraits.