James Webb

James Webb (1825-1895) - 1848 Oil, Castle on the Coast

1848

A dramatic oval seascape featuring a ruined castle perched atop a cliff as waves crash against the rocks below. Ships navigate tempestuous waters on the distant horizon. The work is ...

An expansive view of Chepstow Castle in Wales. Harris incorporates a number of minute details - including a rowing boat, sheep, and small figures - that provide a compelling sense of...

A charming landscape scene depicting Burgruine Castle in Austria. The artist captures the castle from below cast under the shade of thunderclouds. Signed faintly to the lower right. ...

This atmospheric landscape painting depicts a dramatic clifftop castle silhouetted against a turbulent sky filled with sweeping clouds in muted earth tones. The composition balances ...

George Edwards Herring (1805-1879) A coastal landscape Oil on canvas Painting size - 7 x 19 in Framed size - 15 x 28 Provenance With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London; Private Collection,...

Alfred Copestick (1837–1859) Coastal Scene: New York, 1857 Oil on canvas, in the original giltwood frame 14 ¼ x 20 ⅛ in. (canvas) Signed lower right: A. Copestick NY 1857 Painted at just twenty years of age, Coastal Scene: New York demonstrates Alfred Copestick’s remarkable promise as a marine painter in antebellum America. The scene brims with energy: a single sailboat heels sharply into the wind, its rigging taut against the storm, while foamy waves break against a rugged shoreline. Above, clouds mass and dissolve, illuminated by shafts of storm-lit light. Copestick’s treatment is both romantic and naturalistic, conveying the sublime tension between man, sea, and sky. His confident brushwork captures atmosphere with an immediacy and sensitivity rarely found in so young an artist. The work survives in its original giltwood frame, richly carved in a mid-nineteenth-century American style, which not only underscores its historical authenticity but also heightens the tonal drama of the painting. Alfred Copestick came of age during a fertile moment in American painting, when marine art and landscape were central to cultural identity. Though little is known of his formal training, his works suggest familiarity with and admiration for leading marine painters such as James E. Buttersworth, famed for his racing yachts; Francis Augustus Silva, who later developed a luminist style of coastal painting; and earlier masters like Thomas Birch, whose shipwrecks and storm scenes set a precedent for drama at sea. Copestick also absorbed broader currents in American landscape painting. The Hudson River School, led by Thomas Cole, Asher B...

This Oil on Wood American Landscape painting is done by John Mackie Falconer (1820-1903) and is signed center left. The scene is of New Haven Connecticut l...

Oil Painting by William Joseph J.C.Bond "Carmarvon Castle" flourished 1833 -1928 Popular Liverpool painter of coastal marines, much influenced by Turner. Regular exhibitor at the Roy...