Collector's Journal — Maritime Art
The Four-Masted Barque Sindia: From Harland & Wolff to the Legendary 1901 New Jersey Shipwreck
Barque Sindia British Marine Art Brocklebank Line Collectors Journal Four Masted Barque Frost & Reed Harland & Wolff Maritime Art Maritime History Ocean City New Jersey Richard Henry Neville-Cumming Sailing Ships Ship Portrait Shipwreck Sindia Victorian Marine Art Victorian Maritime History Victorian Ship Painting
Discover the remarkable story of the four-masted steel barque Sindia, built by Harland & Wolff for the Brocklebank Line in 1887. We explore this Victorian maritime painting, its A.E.S. initials, connection with Richard Henry Neville-Cumming, historic Frost & Reed association, and the ship’s legendary 1901 wreck at Ocean City, New Jersey.
The Wiscombe Park: A Historic Ship Portrait Attributed to Reginald Arthur Borstel
Art Research Australian Maritime History British Maritime History Marine Painting Maritime Art Provenance Reginald Arthur Borstel Ship Portrait Sunderland Shipbuilding Wiscombe Park
Researching the historic three-masted sailing ship Wiscombe Park, its Liverpool and Australian history, maritime flags and possible attribution to Reginald Arthur Borstel.
Captain Gamaliel Nightingale: A Georgian Naval Portrait by John Simmons
18th Century Painting Art Research & Provenance Bonhams British Art British Portraiture Famous Lord Hill Museum Gamaliel Nightingale Georgian Art John Simmons Maritime Art Naval Portrait Provenance Research Royal Navy
With Labor Day approaching in the United States, discover the remarkable history behind John Simmons's circa 1760 portrait of Royal Navy Captain Gamaliel Nightingale, from his Georgian naval career to Bonhams provenance, surviving historic labels and later private exhibition history.
The Sinking of Yamato: Eric Tufnell and the Final Sortie of Japan’s Great Battleship
7 April 1945 Art Research Battle of the East China Sea Battleship Yamato Captain Kosaku Aruga Collectors Journal Commander Eric Tufnell Eric Tufnell Historical Art Imperial Japanese Navy Japanese Battleships Maritime Art Naval History Naval Painting Naval Watercolour Okinawa Operation Ten-Go Pacific War Parker Gallery Provenance Research Royal Navy Second World War Vice Admiral Seiichi Ito WW2 Naval Art Yahagi Yamato
In 1963, Royal Navy Commander and marine artist Eric Tufnell painted the destruction of Yamato during Operation Ten-Go, only eighteen years after the battle. The original Parker Gallery correspondence and invoice survive, documenting the commission for a private collector.
RMS Lusitania: Captain William Turner and the Last Voyage of a Cunard Legend
Art Research Atlantic Liners British Maritime History Captain William Thomas Turner Collectors Journal Criterion Auctioneers Cunard Cunard Line Edwardian Ocean Liners First World War Lusitania Marine Painting Maritime Art Maritime History Naval History Ocean Liners Provenance Research RMS Lusitania Ship Portrait U-20 Walther Schwieger William Turner WW1
An atmospheric marine portrait remembers RMS Lusitania as the magnificent Cunard liner she had been, opening the story of Captain William Thomas Turner, her final Atlantic crossing and one of the defining maritime tragedies of the First World War.
