Posted on 12/18/2020 12:21:36 PM PST by Utah Binger
One of the most commercially successful painters of the last century, Montague Dawson, born in Chiswick, West London is acknowledged as a supreme painter of the sea, sailing ships and the deep ocean.
His father and grandfather were both marine painters, and this maritime background was reinforced when, early in his life, his family moved to Smugglers House on Southampton Water, on England's south coast. Dawson never went to art school but, around 1910, he joined a commercial art studio in London, working on posters and illustrations.
Joining the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the First World War, Dawson met Charles Napier Hemy who was to have a great influence on the young man's art.
Dawson had supplied illustrations to the Sphere magazine during the First World War and after the war set up as a painter and illustrator. He concentrated on historical subjects and sailing ships, usually under full sail on the deep ocean. He achieved great commercial success starting in the 1920's, showing at the Royal Academy from 1916 to 1936 and regularly at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, of which he was a member.
Dawson moved to Milford-on-sea in Hampshire in the 1930's. In the Second World War, he illustrated events of the war for the Sphere and afterwards continued a painting career that was financially one of the most successful of the 20th century.
He died in Sussex in 1973.
The rendering of the water is phenomenal.
1930’s?..........
The Black Pearl?
The Flying Dutchman?..................
check out htis dude’s seascape painting- very nice too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66MZqobzYOE&list=PL_d4SiHDiKsQ4ho2xjFfgfZVH4jZavaAl&index=9
Do you possibly have any references? Or images.
Thanks,
UB
It truly is.
For anyone that's been to sea in ships smaller than 300' when the sea is up can understand the feel of this picture.
I would like to see a catalogue of Montague Dawson's work.
Beautiful. I want one.
Do you mean that you discovered an image of this painting by searching on Google, or that this painting was lost and recently found?
Maybe...
THX
I would love to have that over my fireplace!
It was found in a garage sale in Kanab Utah. I’m sitting here looking at it. It is the original.
We’ve been art dealers for fifty years and things like this happen once in a while.
No doubt. That painter just plain understands water.
Rare? Aren’t all paintings? Seriously ... most are 1 of 1.
We’ll be offering the original for quite a fair amount of money.
We’ll have giclee prints on canvas available in January.
Also when people make donations to our private foundation we’ll send out a 13x19 digital print as a thank you.
Rare in the sense that it was found in a garage sale in southern Utah. A rare thing to happen.
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), by Winslow Homer
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