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May 28 2011
The Shipwreck
Academician / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Shipwreck” of 1775 by Hendrik Kobell. This Dutch artist was twenty-four years old when this was produced having been born in Rotterdam. He had studied in Rotterdam and England but returned to the Netherlands in 1770 when he began to study in Amsterdam under Jacob de Vos and Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. He was soon elected to the Academy after which he settled in Rotterdam. His oils and watercolors were noted for their realism. He was quite successful and died in Rotterdam on August 3, 1799. This work is 134 cm wide and 92 cm high and is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Mar 3 2011
Shipwreck of the Minotaur, J. M. William Turner, ca. 1810
British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Shipwreck of the Minotaur” by J. M. William Turner of about 1810. This British warship was sailing from Gothenburg to Britain when it was wrecked on the night of December 22, 1810. Over a hundred of her crew reached the Dutch shore and twenty others were rescued by a pilot vessel. Yet Dutch authorities refused to send help to the vessel which was being pounded to pieces. Between 370 and 570 souls were lost and the 130 survivors were taken to France as prisoners of war. Turner had been working on shipwreck paintings and this one was named to take advantage of the scandal among the British public over the failure of the Dutch to rescue hundreds of people who could have been saved. This masterpiece is in the Calouste Gulenkian Museum in Lisbon.
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