Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire and Corot called him the “king of the skies”. Born at Honfleur, […]

Self-educated Willis depicted many scenes of 19th Century naval warfare and had two oil paintings hung in the Summer exhibition of the Royal Academy at Burlington House in 1941. In 1942 he joined the war effort and served in Destroyers and Combined Operations, landing American tanks on Utah Beach on Normandy D-Day, where he was wounded. […]

Charles Hemy was one of the finest marine artists of the late Victorian/Edwardian period and ‘Life’ was one of his most famous paintings. It is certainly very evocative to anyone who has experienced small boat sailing, especially in the days of timber hulls, hemp rigging, and canvas sails. Hemy spent many years of his early […]

Wyllie was born in London in 1851 and became famous and successful through painting maritime scenes in both oil and watercolour, many of which he published as editions of etchings. Wyllie himself created the etchings from his own pictures. His name spread, along with that of Charles Dixon, when he worked as an illustrator in […]

After having worked a long time with acrylic painting, he discovered pastel in coloring his series metamorphoses “Comment naissent les bebs?” (How are babies born?), “Comment naissent les bateaux? (Boats), “Comment naissent les Avions?” (Airplanes). The first board of the boat series was drawn when the artist founded the French yachting magazine “Voiles et Voillers” […]