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Item Ships From: Orange County
"Mon Cabanon" Contemporary Impressionist Oil of Provence
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Mon Cabanon" is an exceptional oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertran. This Contemporary Impressionist painting captures a timeless scene in the South of France. Creat...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Grand Overlook, Sorrento" Modern Impressionist Oil by Bryan Mark Taylor
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Grand Overlook, Sorrento" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on canvas captures the mood and feel of the Amalfi Coast...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
"Savannah Shadows" Colorful Street Scene
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Savannah Shadows" is a colorful sun lit scene of a tree shaded street in this charming city, and is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful oil pain...
Category
2010s American Realist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Flowers By The Alpine Door" Modern Impressionist Oil Painting by Maria Bertran
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Flowers By The Alpine Door" is an beautiful oil painted on location in the French Alps by Maria Bertran. This Contemporary Impressionist painting captures a timeless scene in the So...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Busan Harbor" Colorful Scene of South Korea
By Pil Ho Lee
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
This dynamic painting captures the energy and movement of a colorful harbor scene in South Korea. and is an excellent example of Pil Ho Lee's modern appro...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Impressionist Cityscape "From The Heights" Oil of San Francisco
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"From The Heights" is a fine example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This relatively small oil on panel packs a lot of the modern energy of a dynamic Califo...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ship LUCY G. DOW
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
The strength of a great ship portrait lies with its overall striking composition blended with an attention to detail. Charles Sidney Raleigh was extremely skilled with both elements, and this is one of his finest works. An American full-rigged ship of large proportions, LUCY G. DOW is one of many ships owned by Maine interests, where the ship would be locally built and consortium owned. More Maine captains owned part of their ships than any other East Coast region, it appears through an informal survey of lists.
Note the fine details of the captain and crew hard at work onboard off the coast. The numerous buildings are clustered on the peninsular stretch with a pier coming out near the lighthouse’s walkway. At the distance, ship masts...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Twelve Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Ratama Tree) 40 x 60 Inch, 2009-2016
By Amy Elkins
Located in Orange, CA
Twelve Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Ratama Tree) 40 x 60 Inch, 2009-2016
Additional information:
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Condition: Excellent
Edition of 5
Dimensions: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Clipper FLYING FISH in San Francisco Bay
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
One of the most exciting races between American clipper ships took place between October, 1852 and January, 1853. The vessels involved were the crack clippers FLYING FISH, JOHN GILPIN and WILD PIGEON. Departing New York, each a few days apart, the three ships met up off Cape Horn and proceeded, often in sight of one another, to fly up the west coast to San Francisco.
The JOHN GILPIN gambled by heading farther west into the pacific where a strong northerly got her to San Francisco first. FLYING FISH and WILD PIGEON remained in sight of one another for most of the voyage in their dash up the coast. FLYING FISH arrived a day after GILPIN, but having left New York three days behind her adversary, was declared the winner.
This view shows an excellent starboard view of the great FLYING FISH on her entry into San Francisco Bay. The water has superb light and reflection while the Marin headlands show as her backdrop, with the ever-present misty atmosphere of this important California port. A well captured moment of one of the fastest and most powerful 19th century great sailing ships created.
Sight Size: 18 x 34 inches
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Category
1990s Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Path To Les Grand Clements" Contemporary Impressionist Oil of Provence
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Path to Les Grand Clements" is an exceptional oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertran, this Contemporary Impressionist landscape captures the beauty of Summer in the So...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Vineyard Near Joucas" Modern Impressionist Oil of Provence by Maria Bertran
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Vineyard Near Joucas" is an exceptional oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertran. This Contemporary Impressionist landscape captures the beauty of Summer in the South of...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Morning View From Monterey" Southern California Plein Air Painting
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Morning View From Monterey is an atmospheric oil painted on location in Laguna Beach, California by noted California artist Jacobus Baas. This plein air painting exhibits the subtle...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Perfect Autumn Day" Wooden Boats Tied Up With Glowing Water Reflections
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Perfect Autumn Day" with glowing water reflections of a wooden boats tied up to the dock is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This co...
Category
2010s American Realist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Great Lakes Tugboat CALUMET
By Otto Muhlenfeld
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
An artist who knew the vessels he painted firsthand, Baltimore artist Otto Muhlenfeld has captured the Great Lakes Steam Tug CALUMET in a colorful, working profile. Her American Ensi...
Category
1890s Folk Art Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Vilars Lavender Field" Contemporary Impressionist Oil of Provence
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Vilars Lavender Field" is an exceptional large oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertran, this Contemporary Impressionist landscape captures the beauty of Summer in the S...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Warm Night In Portofino" Oil Painting by Tom Swimm
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Glowing lights and warm purple and lavenders highlight this inviting Italian night scene, "Warm Night In Portofino," a superb example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful...
Category
2010s American Realist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Over the Rooftop
By Jian Wang
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Signed by the artist, framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Poppies By The Woods" Contemporary Impressionist Oil of Provence
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Poppies By The Woods" is an exceptional oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertrán, this Contemporary Impressionist landscape captures the beauty of Spring in the South of...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Resting in Shallow Water
By Timothy Mulligan
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Timothy Mulligan's "Resting in Shallow Water" is a captivating acrylic on canvas painting that conveys a sense of tranquil solitude through a lone woman seated in the shallows of a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Terraform #1, Oil on Canvas Painting by Dennis Ekstedt, 2021
Located in Orange, CA
Terraform #1, Oil on Canvas Painting by Dennis Ekstedt, 2021
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 35 × 70 in (88.9 × 177.8 cm)
About artist: Dennis Ekstedt (Can...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Memory in Laguna Beach #4
By Jian Wang
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
If Jian Wang is to claim a style, it lies in his approach to painting. Distinguished by his ability to reconfigure the elements of a composition to his own vision, he virtually sculpts the image using energetic brush strokes and thick, buttery oil paint.
“My style involves tremendous physicality and emotion,” he says. “I have a simple palette of eight colors, which I combine right on the canvas. I’m careful with my gestures; I carry many colors in a single brush stroke.”
His work, influenced significantly by realism with an impressionist inference, is influenced both by the landscape and by contemporary artists such as Fred Dalkey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Distant Island
By Frederick Waugh
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Frederick Waugh was a prolific seascape artist who generated 2,500 paintings of the sea and shore. Although it was never published, he penned a ten chapter book on marine painting. S...
Category
1920s American Realist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter painting by Behzad Shishegaran
Located in Anaheim, CA
If you are a collector, then you should have a work by Behzad Shishegaran in your collection. Behzad Shishegaran, a multifaceted artist—painter, designer, graphic designer, educator...
Category
2010s Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
untitled by Behzad Shishegaran
Located in Anaheim, CA
If you are a collector, then you should have a work by Behzad Shishegaran in your collection. Behzad Shishegaran, a multifaceted artist—painter, designer, graphic designer, educator...
Category
2010s Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"David Austin Roses" Modern Impressionist Still Life
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"David Austin Roses" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on panel captures the rich colors of the rose in the vase. Thi...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Macao
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
The oldest European buildings in China are along the once curved crescent shore of the Praya Grande, where the Portuguese explorers established and fortified their trading foothold with an entire continent. When they arrived in 1553, this small fishing village overlooked by a temple to an ocean goddess immediately became an important cultural center of the world and the stage for initial interactions between the East and West. Ever since, this port has played a role in the cosmopolitan course of world trade. (The harbor is extensively filled in and built upon today.)
In this view, more than 300 years after the Dutch established contact in the early 17th Century and western ships first sailed in the harbor, a British Sidewheel Steamer is in the port of Macao, surrounded by more than 20 Chinese vessels. The artist's perspective, looking northwest towards the Praya Grande's center, brings Praha Hill and its stone stairway in view, with the church on top. The inlaid stone walkway of the port city is full of human figures, one wearing a special red jacket while the rest wear blue or white. One westerner in a top hat at the stern post of the closest Chinese ship directs its crew outward bound...
Category
1860s Other Art Style Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paisley Caves 2, Oil on Canvas Painting by Daniel Duford, 2024
Located in Orange, CA
Paisley Caves 2, Oil on Canvas Painting by Daniel Duford, 2024
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 48 × 60 1/2 in (121.9 × 153.7 cm)
About artist: For 20 years...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spectacle, Oil on Canvas Painting by Dennis Ekstedt, 2021
Located in Orange, CA
Spectacle, Oil on Canvas Painting by Dennis Ekstedt, 2021
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 52 × 56 in (132.1 × 142.2 cm)
About artist: Dennis Ekstedt (Canad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lavender Below Provence Farm" Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Lavender Below Provence Farm" is an exceptional large vertical oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertran, this Contemporary Impressionist la...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
45% Off
"Chelsea" Contemporary Impressionist Scene of New York City
By Pil Ho Lee
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Chelsea" is a dynamic oil that captures the energy and movement of a glistening street scene in downtown New York with the iconic Flatiron building in full view, and is an excellen...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of the Hongs, Canton
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Sought by collectors worldwide, art and artifacts showing an early western presence in the Orient boomed with the opening of the China Trade by way of the sailing ship. The surviving paintings which capture the important Chinese harbors...
Category
1850s Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York Harbor Near Castle Garden
By Elisha Taylor Baker
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
In this atmospheric and luminous work by E.T. Baker, the busy port of New York hosts a huge number of ships coming and going near the Battery and the famous landmark of Castle Garden...
Category
1860s Other Art Style Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Impressionist Cityscape "Night Rain" Oil San Francisco
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Night Rain" is a fine example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This relatively small oil on panel packs a lot of the modern energy of a dynamic California e...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"High Plains Lavender" Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting of Provence
By Maria Bertan
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"High Plains Lavender" is an exceptional oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertran, this Contemporary Impressionist landscape captures the beauty of Summer in the South of...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Aliso Beach Cliffs" Southern California Seascape Painting
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Aliso Beach Cliffs" is an atmospheric oil painted from a study done on location in Laguna Beach by noted California artist Jacobus Baas. This plein air style painting exhibits the s...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moon Over Monterey Bay
By Jim Lamb
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Immersing himself in majestic surroundings is part of Jim Lamb’s daily routine, whether it’s Washington’s Cascade Mountains or California’s pacific Coast beaches. Capturing the beauty of the natural world is his every day reality. Lamb is an award-winning participant in the selective Northwest Rendezvous group of painters. He is also a regular participant in a number of well known California shows, including the Laguna Beach plein air painting...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Clearing Skies Over Heisler Park" Southern California Scene
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
An atmospheric oil painted on from a study created on location in Laguna Beach, California by noted California artist Jacobus Baas, "Clearing Skies Over Heisler Park" exhibits the su...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cut Tree With Old Burn Pile, Watercolor Painting by Daniel Duford, 2023
Located in Orange, CA
Cut Tree With Old Burn Pile, Watercolor Painting by Daniel Duford, 2023
Additional information:
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Dimension: 45 × 36 in 114.3 × 91.4 cm
About artist: For...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Observer, Oil on Canvas Painting by Dennis Ekstedt, 2022
Located in Orange, CA
Observer, Oil on Canvas Painting by Dennis Ekstedt, 2022
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 24 × 24 in (61 × 61 cm)
About artist: Dennis Ekstedt (Canadian, Bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bali Rice Fields" Modern Impressionist Scene in Bali
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Bali Rice Fields" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on panel captures the mood and feel of the Balinese scene. Pain...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
USS CHICAGO Off Castle Williams and Governor's Island, New York Harbor
By Granville Perkins
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Maritime paintings of the late 19th Century often give great insight into the massive transition which happened in shipbuilding in that period: the end of the sailing ships as mercha...
Category
1890s Other Art Style Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Main Beach Sunset" Modern Impressionist Southern California Seascape
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Main Beach Sunset is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on panel captures the mood and feel of the California Riviera wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Shepard's Cabanon" Contemporary Impressionist Oil of Provence
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Shepard's Cabanon" is an exceptional oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertran. This Contemporary Impressionist painting captures a timeless scene in the South of France....
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lower Waterfall, Tahquitz Creek
By Timothy Mulligan
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Timothy Mulligan's "Lower Waterfall, Tahquitz Creek" is an enchanting acrylic on canvas painting that showcases the captivating beauty of the lower waterfall and Tahquitz Creek in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Keyhole Rock" Modern Impressionist Scene in Southern California
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Keyhole Rock" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on panel captures the mood and feel of the sunny California scene. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pluie a Venice (Venice in the Rain)
By André Hambourg
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Pluie a Venice is painted in Hambourg's preferred palette of muted blue-green, grey, and gold with splashes of ruby red, deep blue, and emerald green. The soft colors work well for beach scenes and rainy days such as the ones portrayed in this painting. The impressionistic scene shows multiple pedestrians strolling down the boardwalk, shielding themselves from the rain with colorful umbrellas that provide pops of color and balance the overcast sky.
The background contains a three-masted ship and Piazza San Marco's famous bell tower and Basilica. Hambourg uses the minimum number of brushstrokes necessary to portray ships, seagulls, buildings and people as well as reflections on the glistening sidewalk. The brushstrokes in the sky have an interesting texture that is controlled yet carefree and there is heavy impasto throughout. His portrayal is both realistic and romanticized.
Hambourg was clearly influenced by the great Impressionist artists of earlier generations, perhaps none more than the one with a direct connection to his family. Hambourg's wife, Nicole Rachet, was born into a family with a large collection of works by Impressionist master Eugene Boudin. Rachet's grandfather was a contemporary and friend of Boudin's, and a collector of his work. In their later years, Hambourg and Rachet donated over 300 canvases by Boudin and other artists to the Eugene Boudin Museum in Honfleur, France. It was such a large and important gift that the collection bears...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Fresh Pineapple" North Shore Hawaii Plein Air Oil Painting by Jacobus Baas
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A sun drenched oil painted on location on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii by noted California and Hawaii artist Jacobus Baas, this plein air painting "Fresh Pineapple," exhibits th...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
The Five-Masted Schooner ELINOR H.
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This attractive portrait features the five-masted schooner ELINOR H. at full sail in an active sea. The ship has crisp lines and a sharp sense of detail, likely because it was painte...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Modern Impressionist California Seascape "Laguna Beach Sunset""
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"View From The Montage" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on panel captures the mood and feel of the California Rivie...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Jodphur Market" Modern Impressionist Oil of India
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Jodphur Market" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on panel captures the mood and feel of the Indian market with the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Parc de la Vanoise" Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting of French Alps
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Parc de la Vanoise" is an beautiful oil painted on location in the French Alps by Maria Bertran. This Contemporary Impressionist painting captures a timeless scene in an Alpine vill...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Monument Point, Heisler Park" Southern California Scene
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
An atmospheric oil painted on from a study created on location in Laguna Beach, California by noted California artist Jacobus Baas, "Monument Point, Heisler Park" exhibits the subtle...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Flowers and Poppies In The Valley" Contemporary Impressionist Oil of Provence
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Flowers and Poppies In The Valley" is an exceptional oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertrán, this Contemporary Impressionist landscape captures the beauty of Spring in...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Green Trench Coat" Contemporary Impressionist Figure Painting
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"The Green Trench Coat " is a striking oil painted from life in her studio in Provence by Maria Bertran. This Contemporary Impressionist painting captures a timeless moment of repose...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Brig EPHRATAH of Port Madoc Entering Naples
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
With a great view of the city of Naples off her bow and Mount Vesuvius off her stern there's no doubt where this Baltimore Clipper Brig is located. This very well executed portrait has great detail of the port and ship with great coloration throughout and great reflections of the ship on the water. The ship is shown in full sail with flags flying.
The ship was owned and Captained by Griffith Jones, a Welshman born 1831. Port Madoc refers to the Welsh City of Porthmadog- it was spelled Portmadoc before 1974.
Her sloped bow and stern along with her size are typical of a Baltimore Clipper but her masts are not as raked as often seen in ships of this design and she is square rigged, though there are historical paintings and drawings of other Baltimore Clippers built in this way.
Most of what we know about the Brig EPHRATAH is due to the famous wreck of her sister ship FROLIC, though FROLIC was built much earlier. FROLIC is considered the most important wreck on the West Coast of the United States. Dr. Tom Layton of Stanford University connected the two ships in his research on FROLIC.
EPHRATAH was slightly larger than FROLIC at 230 tons, 152’ with a breadth of 22’. She was built in 1873 for Griffith Jones & Co. who would also sail as her master. Jones was Welsh by birth, born in 1831 in Llannor.
FROLIC was built in Baltimore's Gardner Brothers shipyard for the Opium Trade. When steamers came along in the late 1850's it was perfect timing for FROLIC to switch to the busy California trade, fueled by the new California Gold Rush. FROLIC was carrying a rich cargo when she was shipwrecked off Point Cabrillo, California in 1850. When it was discovered in the 1980's the wreck...
Category
1870s Other Art Style Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Brigantine E. MILLER
By Elisha Taylor Baker
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
This luminous work depicts the American merchant brigantine E. MILLER. The sun sits low behind the ship, illuminating the sky with colors of yellow and deep rose tones. The sun has just touched the sea at the ship's bow and around her stern, creating a halo of light in the small waves. The E. Miller is in full sail with sailors active on her deck, with her brightly colored name pennant snapping in the wind alongside the American flag and company flag. Though unsigned, this is clearly the work of artist Elisha Tyler Baker. Baker only signed about a third of his paintings, so this is not unusual for the artist. The rendering of the vessel to his touch in the sea and sky all give very clear clues that the work is his.
Though little information remains about her voyages we know the ship E. MILLER was built in Virginia by the Surry Company in 1856 and had a weight of 132 tons. Sailing out of Richmond she was also known to frequent the port of Baltimore. From Richmond she would have carried out agricultural goods, lumber, and iron, while importing manufactured goods and guano to fertilize Virginia's tobacco fields.
Given that she was built before the Civil War and was ported in Richmond throughout the war, it's likely the E. MILLER was involved in moving goods to supply Confederate forces.
Sight Size: 23 3/4 x 32 Inches
Vallejo Gallery features the finest in marine and maritime antiques...
Category
1860s Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Evening Stroll" Modern Impressionist Southern California Seascape
By Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Evening Stroll" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on panel captures the mood and feel of the California Riviera with...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"La La Chisarette, Parc de la Vanoise" Contemporary Impressionist French Alps
By Maria Bertrán
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"La Chisarette, Parc de la Vanoise" is an beautiful oil painted on location in the French Alps by Maria Bertran. This Contemporary Impressionist painting captures a timeless scene in...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Hazy Afternoon Light, Aliso Beach" Southern California Scene
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
An atmospheric oil painted on from a study created on location in Laguna Beach, California by noted California artist Jacobus Baas, "Hazy Afternoon Light, Aliso Beach " exhibits the ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Colors Of Croatia" Fishing Boat In Harbor With Brilliant Water Reflections
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Colors Of Croatia" with rippling water reflections below a white fishing boat in a Croatian harbor is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful oil pai...
Category
2010s American Realist Orange County - Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
