Gordon Grant

Fishermen at Harbor

Marine painter Warren W. Sheppard was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, to a ship captain father who instilled in his son a love and respect for the sea. He studied privately with Mauritz F. H. De Haas and took courses in drawing at Cooper Union in New York City. He traveled along the Mediterranean coast in 1879, sketching the ports of Naples, Gibraltar, Genoa and Messina. Sheppard’s foreign tours continued between 1888 and 1893, with stays in Paris and Venice, where he captured the architecture and busy canals of the Floating City. This fondness for travel also translated to his home country. He sailed along the East Coast from New Jersey to Maine in search of subjects and was an expert navigator, eventually writing the book Practical Navigation. Yacht design became a second career for Sheppard and he participated in a number of sailing competitions himself, most notably winning the New York-to-Bermuda race twice while skipper of the Tamerlane. Sheppard exhibited at the Denver Exposition, Chicago Exposition...

Carl Johann Lasch was born in 1822 in Leipzig, Germany. Lasch was known for his historical and genre paintings. He attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he studied with Edu...

John Henry Dolph, best known as painter of domestic animals, especially cats, was born in 1835 in Fort Ann, New York. In 1841 Dolph's family moved to Ohio and in 1849 Dolph began an ...

Samuel S. Carr was born in England in 1837. He studied at the Royal School of Design in Chester before immigrating to the United States around 1862, where he settled in Brooklyn, New York. He began exhibiting genre paintings in the 1870s. He was known for his paintings of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. Carr was a member of the Brooklyn Art...

"One for Two" is an oil painting that captures a heartfelt — and slightly cheeky — scene from the natural world. Two sparrows, perched on a radiant sunflower, are caught mid-date, ro...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Rory J Browne's Rock and Evening Light captures the elemental ...

The author of this painting is unknown, but it can be ascribed to an artist who looked to the art of the previous century, specifically we see references to Verismo (as inferred from...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Luis Fuentes brings the tranquil elegance of the Mediterranean...