"Yachts Racing off Norris Castle" Nautical Painting by Stephen J. Renard

Signed lower right and inscribed verso. Ex Geary gallery Darien CT. Oil on canvas. As a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists (SEA) and the American Academy of Equine Art, Roy is an artist of international repute. Roy began work as a professional artist at the age of 14 while studying in the evenings at Manchester College of Art. In the early 1960s he moved to London and worked as a freelance artist and illustrator. He has had many exhibitions including the Royal Academy, but the turning point of his career was in 1972 when he visited a racecourse and fell in love with the ‘sport of kings’. Within three years his talents for equestrian painting were recognized and acclaimed and he became a full-time equestrian artist. Her Majesty the Queen has a painting of Roy’s in her own collection. Other commissions from The Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Coaching Club of Great Britain and the United Racecourse Group quickly followed. His solo exhibitions include The Melbourne Cup...

Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left. B. 1941, British Born in the East coastal town of Bridlington in Yorkshire, England, and largely self-taught, Michael Whitehand is one of England’s top maritime artists. He has successfully exhibited his work internationally and his paintings are in important collections, like Britain’s recent Prime Minister, John Major...

Shipping off the coast by English artist Thomas Luny. Oil on canvas signed and dated 35' in the lower left. Nice period and possibly original frame. Thomas Luny (1759–1837), born in Cornwall, probably at St Ewe, was an English artist and painter, mostly of seascapes and other marine-based works. At the age of eleven, Luny left Cornwall to live in London. There he became the apprentice of Francis Holman, a marine painter who would have a great and long lasting artistic influence on Luny: Luny remained until 1780 in Holman's London studio, which, was first situated in Broad Street, St. George's, and later relocated to Old Gravel Lane. Examples of his work are exhibited at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, and at The Mariners' Museum in Newport...

Signed lower left. (Born in Yorkshire, England in 1927; died in 2008). Dinsdale painted the sea and great ships of the era when “Britannia ruled the waves” with her fleets of clipper and fighting ships...

Signed lower right. Presented in a beautiful gilt frame.

An oil on canvas signed in the lower right and inscribed with the location in the lower left. Featuring a glimpse of life in Cairo. The painting is presented in what is probably it...

Framed watercolor on paper of a racing yacht under full sail by Sandor Bernathy. The work has been de-acidified and framed with archival mat under UV filtering glass. American, circ...

I enjoy looking at this unfinished painting by California artist William Norris Dakin. Interesting contrast between finished colorful portions and pencil sketched figures. Unique. Ve...

Montague Dawson: Racing Six-Metre yachts, goache on paper showing a yacht number 6/18, running before the wind with ‘goosewinged’ sails as she leads three other six-meter yachts. Sig...

Original, large-scale painting of Tumacacori Mission , Arizona by William Norris Dakin (Will Dakin) dated 1952. Painted from a sketch done in 1936. Original frame. William Norris Dakin: Born in San Francisco, CA on Nov. 5, 1910. Dakin graduated from Burlingame High School and studied for three years on scholarships at the CSFA under Macky, Randolph, and Poole. During the 1930s he worked for Disney Studios and in the 1940s was a staff artist at Eimac Corporation. He died in Burlingame, CA on Dec. 16, 1992. His oils and drawings include urban and rural scenes, old mansions, marine vessels, and Mexican genre. Member: SWA; Peninsula AA; Society for Sanity in Art. Exh: Calif. State Fair, 1933 (1st prize); SFAA, 1935; SFMA, 1935; San Mateo Co. Fairs. In: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley). Tumacacori Mission: Founded by Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in January 1691, Mission San Cayetano...

Vintage Timothy Thompson (British, b.1951) nautical watercolor painting titled ""Becalmed Off Castle Court"". Features multiple boats / sailboats / Galleon ships near port. Purchased at the Martime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. Provenance: Estate of J. Frederic Gagel, owner of multiple Thoroughbred race horses that competed in the Narragansett Special and Kentucky Derby. Their family heritage was strongly intertwined with the military having officers in battles dating back to the American Revolution. Born in Hull, England, in 1951 and known for marine battle scenes and sailing ship paintings...

A rare painting by Harold Wyllie of 1930 America’s Cup racing off Newport, Rhode Island, oil on canvas, signed ‘Harold Wyllie’, in a moulded giltwood fra...