Collector's Journal — Art Research
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
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.
Storm Over Bamburgh: Shipwreck, Rescue and the Victorian Northumberland Coast
Anderson & Garland Art Research Bamburgh Bamburgh Castle British Art British Marine Art Coastal Painting Collectors Journal Farne Islands Forfarshire Grace Darling John Wilson Carmichael Marine Painting Maritime History Maritime Rescue Newcastle Art Northumberland Northumberland Coast Provenance Research Shipwreck Shipwreck Painting Victorian Art Victorian Marine Painting
A dramatic Victorian marine painting places a wrecked sailing vessel beneath the ancient walls of Bamburgh Castle, revealing the dangers of the Northumberland coast and its remarkable history of shipwreck, rescue and maritime survival.
Sir Walter Raleigh: How an Elizabethan Icon Was Reimagined in Georgian Britain
18th Century Art Art Research British Portraiture Collectors Journal Elizabeth I Elizabethan England Elizabethan Portraiture English School Georgian Art Georgian Britain Historical Portraits Lennard Portrait National Portrait Gallery Old Master Portraits Provenance Research Roanoke Sir Walter Raleigh Tower of London Virginia Walter Raleigh Woolley & Wallis
An intimate eighteenth-century portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh reveals how the image of one of Elizabethan England’s most celebrated figures survived through paintings, engravings and Georgian fascination with Britain’s national past.
Frank Watson Wood and HMS London: A Royal Navy Portrait from the First World War
Art Research British Art British Expeditionary Force British Naval Art Collectors Journal Dardanelles Edmund Walter Anstice First World War Frank Watson Wood Gallipoli HMS London Marine Painting Maritime Art Maritime History Naval Watercolour Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Provenance Research Royal Navy Royal Navy History WW1 Naval Art
A signed First World War watercolour by celebrated marine artist Frank Watson Wood captures HMS London during a pivotal period in Royal Navy history, accompanied by remarkable surviving material connected with future Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Walter Anstice.
King William III: Portraiture, Power and the Glorious Revolution
18th Century Art After Sir Godfrey Kneller Art Conservation Art Research British Art British Royal Portraits Collectors Journal Glorious Revolution Great George Historical Portraits King William III Late Stuart Art Mary II Order of the Garter Royal Portraiture Scottish Provenance Sir Godfrey Kneller Stuart Monarchy William of Orange
An imposing early eighteenth-century portrait of King William III reveals how royal imagery projected authority after the Glorious Revolution, from Sir Godfrey Kneller’s influential portrait types to the ancient symbolism of the Order of the Garter.
