George Drury

Classic Racing Yachts on the Solent, Fine British Marine Signed Oil Painting

20th century

Britannia and Vigilant Yacht Race On The Solent, oil on canvas by Stephen J Renard (Born 1947) Large 20th century yacht race scene on the solent between Britannia and Vigilant in 1...

Unframed Dimensions: 30 x 40 in. Framed Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. Signed lower left The painting depicts Nat Herreshoff’s great racing schooner Ingomar racing the schooner Elmina off Great Captain Island during the Larchmont Race week 1907 at her helm is the redoubtable Charlie Barr the successful skipper of three Americas’s Cup campaigns. Ingomar was built of the wealthy financier Morton F Plant and was the first of Nat Herreshoff’s 9 great steel hulled racing schooners which included, Queen, Westward, Elena and others. She was built alongside Reliance in 1903 and joined her on the New York Yacht Clubs annual cruise of that year as Reliance tunned up to Defend the America’s Cup against Shamrock 111. In 1904 with Capt Charlie Barr at the helm and a crew of veterans from Reliance she crossed the Atlantic to race the cream of the British yachting fleet at Cowes before crossing to compete in the German regattas at Keil where with Capt Barr at the helm she famously forced the German Kaiser racing on his schooner Meteor...

Ron Charles Mitchell is a British marine painter known for his precise and atmospheric depictions of classic yachts and competitive sailing. Working primarily in the late twentieth a...

A Stiffening Breeze: Vernon Broe's Triumph of Sail on Cape Cod 2000 This exquisite oil on board, titled Yacht Racing off Cape Cod, is a magnificent exampl...

Tim Thompson captures the quiet drama of competitive sailing in this luminous marine scene. A fleet of racing yachts moves across calm blue water, their billowing white sails rising ...

Louis Guarnaccia Biography American, b. 1958 Louis was born in Omaha, NE in 1958. At the age of nine he began painting in oil, and at 14, he began studying painting, drawing, and ar...

Richard Firth captures the exhilaration and elegance of classic yacht racing in this expansive marine scene. Two majestic sailing yachts dominate the composition, their towering sail...

Painting size: 30 x 40 in. Frame size: Frame: 37 3/4 x 47 3/4 in. Signed lower right Born in January of 1947, David Bareford began his study of art in high school in Warren, New Jer...

William Astor Pilots the New York Yacht Club Run A superior and graceful schooner as grand as any ever built, AMBASSADRESS was William Backhouse Astor, Jr's "floating home" from its launch in 1877 until he sold it in 1884 and purchased his massive steam/sail yacht...

Unframed dimensions: 30 x 40 inches Framed dimensions: 37 3/4 x 47 3/4 inches Born in January of 1947, David Bareford began his study of art in high school in Warren, New Jersey und...