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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week 42 of Inspiration from Artists this weeks featuring artist are two brothers , William Lionel Wyllie and Charles William Wyllie.  They came to my attention whilst researching for the thread , whilst  I wouldn’t normally present two artist in the same week I thought it would be interest to compare their artworks. Both were quite prolific painters of maritime scenes and the younger brother also painting landscape . I will start with the elder brother today and add his brother in Wednesday.  William Lionel Wyllie RA 1851-1931 was a prolific English painter of maritime themes both in oil and watercolours. He has been described as the most distinguished marine artist of his day.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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This is an artist who died 90 years ago, without the benefit of half the colours we have available to us today - and probably having to use fugitive pigments, because he hadn't anything else: and he achieved such luminosity in his skies and water.... I wish I knew how!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Amazing artwork Many of his works are held by the The National Maritime Museum and the Tate has a couple I believe.   I thought it would be interest to show some of his many etchings . 

Russell Edwards

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You have to be impressed by someone who produces work like this, I know I am!
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Lewis Cooper

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This work is breathtakingly good.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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KI’m  I did think when I posted the last batch that both of you would enjoy the etchings a few more then I will feature some of his WW1 paintings.  This painting is in the Tate. 

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Sorry I couldn’t get the painting to load , this is the one at the Tate .

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Jenny Harris

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Love the luminosity in his paintings, as Robert has mentioned.  Maritime paintings are beginning to grow on me, we’ve seen some excellent examples recently.  (Paul, one way round not being able to download an image is taking a screenshot of it then cropping it.  It does, though, result in a much bigger file size, but is useful for those you can’t download.)

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Alan Bickley

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Wonderful maritime paintings and etchings, but the name was familiar to me. I’ll try and select a couple myself later on today. If images don’t load it usually means they aren’t in jpeg format… thanks Jenny for that tip!

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A few more excellent examples, hopefully I’ve not duplicated other submissions.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks for the tip Jenny and I’m p,eased you are enjoying the artwork. I must admit that it took me quite a while to develop the liking for maritime paintings, it wasn’t untill I tried one that I developed the interest. A lot of the painting I had seen in the past were quite dark looking bones of old sailing ships most were quite boring , having the internet and the ability to search really changed that . Three excellent choices Alan , I particularly like the first one of the three the detailing is stunning. 

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He’s done some lovely etchings of London - this is an etching with aquatint of London Bridge.  It’s very atmospheric.

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