Collector's Journal — Collectors Journal
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
