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Collector's Journal — Provenance Research

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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Potosi: Around Cape Horn in the Final Great Age of Sail

• Age of Sail • Art Research • Cape Horn • Chilean Nitrate Trade • Collectors Journal • Drake Passage • F Laeisz • Five Masted Barque • Flying P-Liners • German Maritime History • M Job • Marine Painting • Maritime Art • Maritime History • Potosi • Provenance Research • Robert Hilgendorf • Sailing Ships • Ship Portrait • Tall Ships • Tayler & Fletcher • Windjammer

Potosi: Around Cape Horn in the Final Great Age of Sail

A dramatic circa 1900 oil painting captures the legendary five-masted barque Potosi driving through mountainous southern seas, revealing the extraordinary story of the Flying P-Liners, the Chilean nitrate trade and the final great age of commercial sail.

 

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