#marine painting
Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910, Germany)
Achenbach was a Germanlandscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school. His style is central to 19th century German landscape painting, and defined the post-Friedrich period moving from RomanticismtoRealism.
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James Webb (1825–95, England)
James Webb was an English painter specialising in marine views,landscapes, and urban scenes in the style of vedute. Webb painted scenes in England, Wales, Holland, France and along the Rhine. He painted figures and buildings with as much competence as he did landscape backgrounds, and his paintings have a feeling of tranquillity and harmony to them. Webb used pale colours, but painted in a robust naturalistic style, influenced by J. M. W. Turner.
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Lionel Walden (1861-1933, United States)
Walden was an Americanlandscape painter active in Hawaii, Cornwall, Wales and France. Particularly known for his seascapes, and depictions of Hawaii, which constitute the first noteworthy attempts by a professional artist to portray the region in painting.
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Sigvard Hansen (May 23, 1859 - 1938) was a Danish landscape painter. He was apprenticed at Aluminia (Porcelain factory) and studied at the Academy at the same time, but never graduated.
His specialty was Danish and foreign winter landscapes which he executed with great skill and sold in copious amounts. Here I have selected an atypical canvas, which I think shows off his technical skill with figures, scenery and a typical Danish grey sky:
Above:The Harbour of Elsinore, Denmark, 1884 - oil on canvas (Shown at Charlottenborg, privately owned)
Vilhelm Melbye (May 14, 1824 - 1882) was a Danish marine and landscape painter. He was one of three brothers who all were successful marine painters, and Anton Melbye was Vilhelm’s primary teacher, although he did attend classes at the Academy.
Anton came to London already as a teen and preferred being abroad. After completing his training in Copenhagen, he studied for a year in Düsseldorf and Paris and then settled with commercial success in London. In 1862 he finally returned to Copenhagen and eventually became a professor at the Academy shortly before his death…
Above:Boats on the Lake, Scottish Highlands (Loch Lomond), 1856 - oil on canvas (Privately owned)
Benjamin Olsen (May 3, 1878 - 1935) was an autodidact Danish marine painter. He worked most of his life for Bing & Grøndahl and Royal Copenhagen porcelain factories.
As a marine painter he participated twice in the Danish Royal House’s voyages to The Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland (1921 and 1926). He depicted the naval vessels used in a clean naturalistic style, ass seen here:
Niels Juelved Trøllkonufingur (Kongespiret), Færøerne 6/6 1926 - oil on canvas (Privately owned)
Several of Olsen’s canvases are now at the Danish Maritime Museum…
