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Charles Martin Powell

Fine Antique English Marine Oil Painting Shipping of Rocky Coastline & Figures
Fine Antique English Marine Oil Painting Shipping of Rocky Coastline & Figures

Fine Antique English Marine Oil Painting Shipping of Rocky Coastline & Figures

By Charles Martin Powell

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Shipping scene off the coast of Dover circle of Charles Martin Powell (British, 1775-1824) oil painting on board, framed framed: 12.5 x 11.5 inches board: 9.5 x 8 inches condition: ...

Category

Early 19th Century English School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Full sail in calm waters
Full sail in calm waters

Full sail in calm waters

By Charles Martin Powell

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

Charles Martin Powell (Chichester 1775-1824) Full sail in calm waters Signed and dated lower right Oil on canvas Canvas Size 20 x 24 in Framed Size 26 x 30 in Charles Martin Powell...

Category

19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

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Shipping in a breeze
Shipping in a breeze

Shipping in a breeze

By Charles Martin Powell

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

The British artist Charles Martin Powell was born in Chichester, England and was a self-taught artist.

Category

19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

19th century English marine of fishing boats at sea with figures in a landscape.
19th century English marine of fishing boats at sea with figures in a landscape.

19th century English marine of fishing boats at sea with figures in a landscape.

By Charles Martin Powell

Located in Woodbury, CT

English early 19th century Marine scene of fishing boats at sea , with a landscape and people in the foreground. Born in Chichester, C M Powell was a self-taught artist, a fact whic...

Category

1810s Old Masters Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

An excise cutter intercepting a suspect
An excise cutter intercepting a suspect

An excise cutter intercepting a suspect

By Charles Martin Powell

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

The British artist Charles Martin Powell was born in Chichester, England and was a self-taught artist.

Category

19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dutch shipping in a choppy sea
Dutch shipping in a choppy sea

Dutch shipping in a choppy sea

By Charles Martin Powell

Located in Stoke, Hampshire

The British artist Charles Martin Powell was born in Chichester, England and was a self-taught artist.

Category

Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

English Warships And Dutch Boats, 19th Century Charles Martin Powell (1775-1824)
English Warships And Dutch Boats, 19th Century Charles Martin Powell (1775-1824)

English Warships And Dutch Boats, 19th Century Charles Martin Powell (1775-1824)

By Charles Martin Powell

Located in Blackwater, GB

English Warships and Dutch Hoys in a North Sea Breeze, 19th century by Charles Martin Powell (1775-1824) Large early 19th century maritime scene with English warships and Dutch shi...

Category

19th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Finding the Right Landscape-paintings for You

It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.

The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.

The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).

Adding a landscape painting to your home can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of your own space. (Some may think of it as an aspirational window of sorts rather than a canvas.) Abstract landscape paintings by the likes of Korean painter Seungyoon Choi or Georgia-based artist Katherine Sandoz, on the other hand, bring pops of color and movement into a room. These landscapes refuse to serve as a background. Elsewhere, Adam Straus’s technology-inspired paintings highlight how our extreme involvement with our devices has removed us from the glory of the world around us. Influenced by modern life and steeped in social commentary, Straus’s landscape paintings make us see our surroundings anew.

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