British artist Donald McIntyre’s seascape paintings capture the essence of coastal shorelines through vivid compositions imbued with a calm simplicity. McIntyre's work embodies the Scottish Colourist tradition of landscape art. He places the viewer at the boundary of civilization and nature, with a strong focus on the natural scenery, as the images of manmade structures seem to fade into the background.
McIntyre was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He studied dentistry at the Glasgow Dental Hospital and also attended night classes at the Glasgow School of Art. While working as a dentist, he served in the British Army, taught art classes and painted in his spare time.
In the late 1950s, McIntyre left dentistry to take up painting full time. He traveled throughout the British Isles, painting scenes of shorelines and countrysides, as well as occasional interior settings and portraits. The seascapes McIntyre created are a favorite among Scottish art collectors.
McIntyre exhibited at many galleries throughout the United Kingdom before his death in 2009. Many public and private collections contain his works, including the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth — as well as galleries in Birkenhead, England and Newport, Wales.
On 1stDibs, enjoy a selection of Donald McIntyre's tranquil landscape, figurative and interior paintings.
Figures on the Beach, landscape painting of the sea with figure, boat and waves
By Donald McIntyre
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed size: 29" x 32.5" Donald McIntyre’s Figures on the Beach presents a tranquil coastal scene where the quiet rhythms of seaside life are translated into bold passages of colour ...
Paper, Acrylic
Porthscatho Coastline Painting of boat, sea & beach. Atmospheric green, yellow
By Donald McIntyre
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed Size: 28" x 38" McIntyre’s Porthscatho captures the quiet rhythm of a Cornish fishing village, its boats drawn up onto the shore at low tide. The composition leads the eye acr...
Oil, Panel
Green Sea, Port Ban Landscape Painting of the Sea with figures on the beach
By Donald McIntyre
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed size: 29.5" x 39.5" McIntyre’s Green Sea, Port Ban captures the luminous beauty of the Scottish coastline with bold colour and expressive brushwork. The wide sweep of pale sa...
Paper, Acrylic
Impressionist landscape painting of Brittany, France, 'Bretagne', boats, beach
By Pierre de Clausade
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Pierre de Clausade’s Bretagne captures the quiet solemnity of a northern French coastline, where vast skies dominate the horizon and the rhythms of sea and land meet in meditative st...
Canvas, Oil
le Port d'Audierne Impressionist Harbour Painting, Figures, Boats, Blue Water
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Framed size: 25" x 28.5" The beautiful impressionist painting by Leon Bellemont, captures a serene Breton harbour - Audierne in Finistère - bustling quietly with maritime activity. I...
Canvas, Oil
'Boats on the Shore' Contemporary colourful painting of boats, sand and sea
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Boats on the Shore' Contemporary Colourful painting of sand, sea and sun. Bold powerful colours that create a striking piece that would look beautiful in any interior setting. At ...
Oil, Panel
Pleasure Boats
By Donald McIntyre
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Acrylic on board Board size: 11.5 x 21.25 inches Framed size: 18.25 x 28.25 inches Signed lower right
Acrylic, Board
Mid-Century French Impressionist OFishing Boats Moored on the Beach with Figures
By Simone Forge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fishing Boats Moored Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist oil on board unframed board: 13 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: great condition For more any m...
Oil
Pauline Plummer (b.1933) - Contemporary Oil, Study of Boats
By Pauline Plummer
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate study of moored boats by the artist Pauline Plummer (b.1933). Signed to the lower left. Well presented in a painted frame. On canvas board.
Oil
Maurice Crawshaw (b.1947) Signed Impressionist Oil - Boats Moored At The Harbour
By Maurice Crawshaw
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Boat Yard" by Maurice Crawshaw (British, born 1947) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas measurements:14 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, Eng...
Oil
1950's French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil - Fishermen with Boats on Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, signed lower corner Title: Drying the Nets. Wonderfully thick textured oil painting and diverse palette range of color. Medium: o...
Oil
"Fisherman of Yankee Cove, " Harry Leith-Ross, Boat Landscape
By Harry Leith-Ross
Located in New York, NY
Harry Leith-Ross (1886 - 1973) Fisherman of Yankee Cove Oil on canvasboard 8 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches Signed lower left; also with artist, title, and number '39' on label verso Provenance: Private Collection, Pennsylvania Landscape painter Harry Leith-Ross was born in Mauritius in 1886, a British possession in the Indian Ocean. He came to America as a seventeen year old. Before beginning, some ten years later in 1914, his studies at the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, New York at the relatively late age of twenty-eight, Leith-Ross had worked as a commercial artist. He studied with John F. Carlson and Birge Harrison at the League Summer School, and later with C. Y. Turner at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He then went to Paris, studying with Jean Paul Laurens at the Academie Julien and in England with Stanhope Forbes. Long associated with the Bucks County artists' colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Leith-Ross may have first gone there in 1912. It is definitely known that he visited the area in 1916 at the invitation of a student he had met when both attended the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, John Fulton Folinsbee. Birge Harrison, his former instructor at the League, whom he met again, was also there in New Hope during the winters from 1914 to 1916. The third and last generation of the New Hope colony would be comprised of artists like Leith-Ross, Folinsbee and Kenneth R. Nunamaker. It is somewhat ironic that Leith-Ross, so long affiliated with the New Hope School of American Impressionism...
Oil, Board
