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Collector's Journal — Art Research

Edward Carter Preston: Rediscovering a Modernist Painter

Art Research British Interwar Art British Modernism British Modernist Art British Still Life Collectors Journal Cubism Cubist Still Life Dead Mans Penny Edward Carter Preston Edward Carter Preston Watercolour Gerard Chowne Liverpool Art Liverpool Cathedral Liverpool Modernism Modern British Art Modernist Painting Next of Kin Memorial Plaque Paul Cezanne Post Impressionism Provenance Research Sandon Studios Society Watercolour

Edward Carter Preston: Rediscovering a Modernist Painter

An intimate Cubist-influenced watercolour of everyday kitchen vessels reveals a lesser-known side of Edward Carter Preston, the Liverpool artist better remembered for sculpture, medals and his monumental work for Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.

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The Newfoundland Rescue Dog: Legend, Sculpture and the Scottish Kennel Club

Animal Sculpture Animalier Sculpture Art Research British Sculpture Bronze Sculpture Canine Art Collectors Journal Dog History Dog Sculpture HELP Scottish KC Maritime History Maritime Rescue Newfoundland Bronze Newfoundland Dog Newfoundland History Provenance Research Reuben Decker S.S. Ethie Scottish Art Scottish KC Scottish Kennel Club SS Ethie Wisher Working Dogs

The Newfoundland Rescue Dog: Legend, Sculpture and the Scottish Kennel Club

An intriguing early twentieth-century bronze Newfoundland bears the inscription “HELP Scottish K.C.”, opening a fascinating story of canine history, maritime rescue and the enduring legend surrounding the S.S. Ethie disaster of 1919.

 

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Shipwreck and Rescue: A Victorian Marine Drama off the Scottish Coast

Art Research British Marine Painting Collectors Journal Dundee Dundee Maritime History Dundee Shipbuilding Fraser & Son Dundee Gourlay Brothers Lifeboat Lifeboat Rescue Marine Art Maritime History Maritime Rescue Provenance Research RNLI Sailing Ship Scottish Maritime Art Scottish Maritime History Sealing Shipwreck Painting Steamship Victorian Marine Art Victorian Shipwreck Whaling Whaling Ships William Broome

Shipwreck and Rescue: A Victorian Marine Drama off the Scottish Coast

A dramatic late nineteenth-century marine oil captures a steam-assisted sailing vessel foundering in mountainous seas as a lifeboat battles towards the stranded crew, evoking Dundee’s maritime heritage and the courage of Victorian lifeboatmen.

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J. Warnes: The Lurcher and the English Countryside

Art Research British Animal Painting British Dog Art Collectors Journal Colonel Peter Fishbourne Dog Portrait Earls Colne Edwardian Art Edwardian Britain English Countryside Essex Greyhound J. Warnes Lime House Lurcher Lurcher Painting Lurcher Portrait Provenance Research Rowney & Co Samuel John Carter Sporting Art Sporting Painting Victorian Sporting Art Working Dogs

J. Warnes: The Lurcher and the English Countryside

A sensitive circa 1910 portrait of a lurcher by British artist J. Warnes places a working dog within the English countryside, offering an evocative glimpse into Edwardian rural life and the tradition of British sporting and animal painting.

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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

RMS Lusitania: Captain William Turner and the Last Voyage of a Cunard Legend

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.

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