01 Photograph, Tales of Mermaids, Ashlyn Orion’s The black mermaid, with Footnotes, #17

Roberto Manetta, Maui Hawaii
The black mermaid, 2013
Photograph
100×70 cm
Private collection

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Roberto Manetta is a traveling freelance photographer, Film and digital photography, since 1999. “No digital manipulation,only photography My passion comes from nature, adventure stories, fantasy films that have contributed phenomenally to my project ideas and the major part of my photographs. I am always very attentive, in all of my movements, in everything surrounding me. I often dream about adventures, fairy tales and mythological women. I look around at the objects surrounding me, with attention, searching for a link between a nude body more than a face. Geometric lines and original compositions are always at the centre of my attention when I launch upon a new project. I don’t really like the classic approach to nude photography. During the years I tried to maintain in all my productions a quality that re-conducted to classical photography, the one which is created without the need of much digital elaboration” More on Roberto Manetta

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02 Photograph, Tales of Mermaids, Lucien Clergue’s Les Geàntes, with Footnotes, #14

Lucien Clergue
Detail; Les geantes, Camargue, 1978
Gelatin silver print (black & white)
11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Private collection

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Lucien Clergue (August 14, 1934 — November 15, 2014) was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013.

Clergue was born in Arles, France. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the violin, and after several years of study his teacher admitted that he had nothing more to teach him. Clergue was from a family of shopkeepers and could not afford to pursue further studies in a college or university school of music, such as a conservatory…

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Frank Townsend Lent; Sailing Regatta 01 Marine Painting – Frank Townsend Lent , With Footnotes, #276

Frank Townsend Lent (American, 1855-1919)
Sailing Regatta, c. 1898
Oil on canvas
12″h x 20″w
Private collection

Frank Townsend Lent (1855–1919) was a residential architect, painter and author. Lent designed many suburban and summer cottage homes in Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, and Ontario around the turn of the century in the Victorian and Edwardian architectural period. Several of these homes are protected by their town’s historical society.

Lent lived in Cranford, New Jersey. He published “A Souvenir of Cranford, NJ” in 1894 to showcase his architectural works including his personal home.

Lent wrote three books about architecture during the 1890s. Sound Sense in Suburban Architecture,  Sensible Suburban Architecture, and Summer Homes and Camps.

Lent studied at the Poughkeepsie Military Institute and then attended Rutgers University, and graduated in 1878 with a master’s degree in science. Lent apprenticed to architect William Appleton Potter (1842-1909),who designed several imposing buildings at Princeton University including the Chancellor Green Library completed in 1873 and Alexander Hall completed in 1894.[3]

Lent was also a landscape painter of the plein-air school. More on Frank Townsend Lent

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Zena Holloway, Sea Selkie 01 Painting, and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 10

Zena Holloway, United Kingdom
Sea Selkie, c. 2012
Photography
39.4 W x 44.1 H x 0.1 in
Private collection

In Scottish mythology, Selkies, meaning “Seal Folk” are mythological beings capable of therianthropy, changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. They are found in folktales and mythology originating from Orkney and Shetland.

The folk-tales frequently revolve around female selkies being coerced into relationships with humans by someone stealing and hiding their sealskin, thus exhibiting the tale motif of the swan maiden type.

There are counterparts in Faroese and Icelandic folklore that speak of seal-women and seal-skin. In some instances the Irish mermaid (merrow) is regarded as a half-seal, half-human being. More on the Selkie

Zena Holloway (born 1973 in Bahrain) is an underwater photographic artist living in London. Her work deviates from the stereotypical imagery associated with underwater photography. For Holloway the underwater landscape serves as a backdrop, using cinematic drama and painterly aesthetics, she directs her models along themes of universal human experiences: love, loss, intimacy and romance. Her recent work Flowers for Jeju : The Last Mermaids focuses on the historical and spiritual tradition of the Haenyeo of South Korea. Alongside her dedication to long-term personal projects, she is a regular contributor to editorial, for publications such as The Sunday Times Magazine, Paris Match and the FT. Her work is exhibited globally and she has been the recipient of many international photographic and film awards. More on Zena Holloway

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Zena Holloway, Rolling in the Deep 01 Photograph, Tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 9

Zena Holloway, United Kingdom
Rolling in the Deep, c. 2005
Photography
16.5 W x 23.2 H x 0 in
Private collection

“Far, far from land, where the waters are as blue as the petals of the cornflower and as clear as glass, there, where no anchor can reach the bottom, live the mer-people.” 

~ The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen

Zena Holloway (born 1973 in Bahrain) is an underwater photographic artist living in London. Her work deviates from the stereotypical imagery associated with underwater photography. For Holloway the underwater landscape serves as a backdrop, using cinematic drama and painterly aesthetics, she directs her models along themes of universal human experiences: love, loss, intimacy and romance. Her recent work Flowers for Jeju : The Last Mermaids focuses on the historical and spiritual tradition of the Haenyeo of South Korea. Alongside her dedication to long-term personal projects, she is a regular contributor to editorial, for publications such as The Sunday Times Magazine, Paris Match and the FT. Her work is exhibited globally and she has been the recipient of many international photographic and film awards. More on Zena Holloway

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Javiera Estrada, Goddess of Beauty 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #10

Javiera Estrada, United States
Goddess of Beauty
Collage
Size: 60 H x 36 W x 2.5 in
Private collection

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is identified with the planet Venus; her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. Myrtle, roses, doves, sparrows and swans were sacred to her.

Aphrodite was created from the sea foam produced by Uranus’s genitals, which had been severed by Cronus. In Homer’s Iliad, however, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. In Greek mythology, the other gods feared that Aphrodite’s beauty might lead to conflict and war, through rivalry for her favours; so Zeus married her off to Hephaestus. Despite this, Aphrodite followed her own inclinations, and had many lovers — both gods, such as Ares, and men, such as Anchises. She played a role in the Eros and Psyche legend, and was both lover and surrogate mother of Adonis. More on Aphrodite 

Javiera Estrada was born in Mexico in 1981 and moved to the United States in 1989. Her childhood was heavily influenced by her training in classical piano and violin, which continues to inspire her aesthetic today. She attended Santa Monica College. Estrada’s broad scope of work is a reflection of memories that she has shaped into her reality. A multifarious artist, Estrada’s creative expression encompasses traditional photography alongside mixed media. Her mixed media works are a comment on the natural cycle of decomposition and reflected through the deconstruction of the image. Estrada has exhibited in galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her work is part of private and corporate collections internationally. In 2014 she won Art Slant’s Juried Competition, was a 2015 finalist for the Emerging Focus Competition and is the 2017 winner of the ND Awards Fine Art Category. Estrada made her first short film in 2017 entitled, The Dream, which was selected in Best of Shorts at the Carmel International Film Festival. Estrada currently lives and works in Los Angeles. More on Javiera Estrada

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Javiera Estrada, Sleeping Raven 01 Photograph, a fairy tale, by the Brothers Grimm, with footnotes # 22

Javiera Estrada, United States
Sleeping Raven/ fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
Photography
38 H x 38 W x 0.1 in
Private collection

A queen wished her naughty daughter would turn into a raven and fly away, so she could have some peace, and her wish was instantly fulfilled. She flew away to a forest.

In the forest, a man heard a raven tell him she was an enchanted princess, and he could deliver her if he went to a certain cottage and accepted no food from the old woman there. The raven would drive by in a carriage every day for three days. If he remained awake, he would break the spell. Each day, the old woman persuaded him to drink but one sip, and each day, overcome by weariness, he was fast asleep by the time the raven drove past. On the final day, the raven left the sleeping man a bottle of wine, a loaf, and a piece of meat, all three of which were inexhaustible and put a gold ring with her name on his finger. She also gave him a letter telling him there was another way he might deliver her: by coming to the golden castle of Stromberg.

The man wandered, looking for the castle, and found a giant who threatened to eat him, but the man fed him with his magical provisions. Then the giant brought out his map, which displayed all the towns, villages and houses in the land – but not the castle. He asked the man to wait until his brother came home. The brother was able to find the castle on an older map, but it was thousands of miles away. The brother agreed to carry the man to within a hundred leagues of the castle.

As the man approached the glass mountain on which the golden castle stood, he could see the bewitched princess drive her carriage around the castle and go in. But the glass mountain was too slippery for him to climb, and he lived in a hut at the foot of the mountain for a year. One day he met three robbers fighting over three magical items: a stick that opened doors, an invisibility mantle, and a horse that could ride up the glass-mountain. The man offered them a mysterious reward in exchange for the items, but he insisted on first trying them out, to see if they worked as promised. After he had mounted the horse, taken the stick, and was made invisible by the cloak, he hit the robbers with his stick and rode up the glass mountain. He used the stick and mantle to get into the castle and threw his ring into the princess’s cup. She couldn’t find her rescuer though she searched the entire castle, until he finally revealed himself by throwing off the mantle. They were married. More on the Raven Princess

Associating the photograph to the Raven Princess fairy tale might not have been the artist’s intention!

Javiera Estrada was born in Mexico in 1981 and moved to the United States in 1989. Her childhood was heavily influenced by her training in classical piano and violin, which continues to inspire her aesthetic today. She attended Santa Monica College. Estrada’s broad scope of work is a reflection of memories that she has shaped into her reality. A multifarious artist, Estrada’s creative expression encompasses traditional photography alongside mixed media. Her mixed media works are a comment on the natural cycle of decomposition and reflected through the deconstruction of the image. Estrada has exhibited in galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her work is part of private and corporate collections internationally. In 2014 she won Art Slant’s Juried Competition, was a 2015 finalist for the Emerging Focus Competition and is the 2017 winner of the ND Awards Fine Art Category. Estrada made her first short film in 2017 entitled, The Dream, which was selected in Best of Shorts at the Carmel International Film Festival. Estrada currently lives and works in Los Angeles. More on Javiera Estrada

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Charles Haslewood Shannon, Fisherman and the Mermaid 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 6c

Charles Haslewood Shannon, 1863-1937 

The Fisherman and the Mermaid, 1901/03

Oil on Canvas

Private collection

Rusalkas are the Slavic counterpart of the Greek sirens and naiads. The nature of rusalkas varies among folk traditions, they all share a common element: they are the restless spirits of the unclean dead. They are usually the ghosts of young women who died a violent or untimely death, perhaps by murder or suicide, before their wedding and especially by drowning. Rusalkas are said to inhabit lakes and rivers. 

This early work both illustrated and was inspired by a poem by Goethe, which tells the story of a mermaid who rises from the waters to complain to a fisherman that he is enticing her children to death. Gradually the mermaid’s own beauty lures the fisherman into the water and to oblivion. More on this painting

Charles Haslewood Shannon RA (26 April 1863 – 18 March 1937) was an English artist. He became best known for his portraits, which can be found in several major European collections, including the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Shannon attended the City and Guilds of London Art School, and was subsequently considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts and by the example of the great Venetians. In his early work he was addicted to a heavy low tone, which he abandoned subsequently for clearer and more transparent colour. He achieved great success with his portraits and his Giorgionesque figure compositions, which are marked by a classic sense of style, and with his etchings and lithographic designs. More on Charles Haslewood Shannon 

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Charles Murray Padday, The mermaid 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 6b

Charles Murray Padday, (British, 1868–1954)

The mermaid

Oil on Canvas

34.5 x 44.5 cm. (13.6 x 17.5 in.)

Private collection

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Charles Murray Padday, RI, ROI (1868–1954) was a renowned was a Scottish visual artist and illustrator. Padday was active in London from 1890 to 1906. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

 

 

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Frederic, Lord Leighton, The Fisherman and the Syren 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5b

Frederic, Lord Leighton, 1830–1896

The Fisherman and the Syren, c. 1856–1858

Oil on canvas

66.3 × 48.7 cm (26.1 × 19.2 in)

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

Inspired by a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, THE FISHERMAN

This early work both illustrated and was inspired by a poem by Goethe, which tells the story of a mermaid who rises from the waters to complain to a fisherman that he is enticing her children to death. Gradually the mermaid’s own beauty lures the fisherman into the water and to oblivion. More on this painting

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter. Leighton was bearer of the shortest-lived peerage in history; after only one day his hereditary peerage ended with his death. More on Frederic Leighton

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Ferdinand Leeke, The Mermaid and the Satyr 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 8

Ferdinand Leeke,  (1859–1937)

The Mermaid and the Satyr, c. 1917

Oil on canvas

39 x 53.1 in. / 99 x 135 cm

Private collection

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

In Greek mythology, a satyr is the member of a troop of ithyphallic male companions of Dionysus; they usually have horse-like ears and tails, as well as permanent, exaggerated erections. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs, but, in 6th-century BC black-figure pottery, human legs are the most common. The faun is a similar woodland-dwelling creature from Roman mythology, which had the body of a man, but the legs, horns, and tail of a goat. In myths, both are often associated with pipe-playing. Greek-speaking Romans often used the Greek term saturos when referring to the Latin faunus, and eventually syncretized the two (the female “Satyresses” were a later invention of poets). They are also known for their focus on sexual desires. They were characterized by the desire to have sexual intercourse with as many women as possible, known as satyriasis. More on satyr

Ferdinand Leeke (April 7, 1859 – 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas. A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Johann Herterich (1843-1905), a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838-1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter. More on Ferdinand Leeke.

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Ferdinand Leeke, The Mermaids – 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 7

Ferdinand Leeke, German 1859-1923

The Mermaids, c. 1921 – 1922

Oil on canvas

96.5x126cm

Private collection

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Ferdinand Leeke (April 7, 1859 – 1923) was a German Painter, famous for his depictions of scenes from Wagnerian Operas. A native of Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, he studied at the Munich Academy under Johann Herterich (1843-1905), a genre and historical painter, and with Alexander von Wagner (1838-1919), a Hungarian genre and landscape painter. More on Ferdinand Leeke.

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Maurice William Greiffenhagen, The Mermaid. 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5

Maurice William Greiffenhagen
The Mermaid
Oil on canvas
Height: 100 cm (39.37 in.), Width: 100 cm (39.37 in.)
Paisley Museum and Art Galleries  (United Kingdom – Paisley, Renfrewshire)

This early work both illustrated and was inspired by a poem by Goethe, which tells the story of a mermaid who rises from the waters to complain to a fisherman that he is enticing her children to death. Gradually the mermaid’s own beauty lures the fisherman into the water and to oblivion. More on this painting

Maurice Greiffenhagen RA (15 December 1862 – 26 December 1931) was a British painter and Royal Academician. He illustrated books and designed posters as well as painting idyllic landscapes.

He was born in London. Exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1884, he was made an Associate Member in 1916 and a Royal Academician in 1922. From 1906 until 1926, he taught at the Glasgow School of Art. Greiffenhagen exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in 1921.

His friendship with H Rider Haggard led to him illustrating the author’s popular adventure books, starting with an edition of She: A History of Adventure in 1889 – though Greiffenhagen apparently “disliked doing black-and-white work”. He illustrated the serialisation of Ayesha The Return of She (1904–05) and that of The Holy Flower (1913–14) in the Windsor Magazine.

He also illustrated a number of Edgar Wallace’s Sanders of the River books for the Windsor Magazine: The Keepers of the King’s Peace (1916–17), Lieutenant Bones (1917–18) and Sandi, The Kingmaker (1921).

Greiffenhagen’s 1891 painting, An Idyll, inspired D H Lawrence’s novel The White Peacock. The painting had “a profound effect” on the author. In 1910, Greiffenhagen illustrated a book of poems by Charles F. Parsons entitled Some Thoughts at Eventide.

Greiffenhagen also created distinctive commercial posters, including a colourful 1894 advertisement for Pall Mall Budget magazine which “created a distinct sensation among the younger men” according to one contemporary periodical. In 1924, he created “The Gateway of the North”, one of the most popular travel posters in a series commissioned by London, Midland and Scottish Railway. More on Maurice Greiffenhagen

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5e

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Julius Hübner, 1806 – 1882

The Fair Melusine, c. 1844

Rudolf Julius Benno Hübner (27 January 1806 – 7 November 1882) was a German historical painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was also known as a poet and the father of Emil Hübner, a distinguished classical scholar.

Hübner was born at Oels in Silesia, studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin under Schadow, and in Düsseldorf. He first attracted attention by his picture of “Ruth and Boaz” (1825). He traveled in Italy, but resided for the most part at Düsseldorf until 1839. In that year he settled at Dresden, becoming a professor in the Academy of Arts in 1841 and director of the Gallery of Paintings in 1871. He obtained the great gold medal at Brussels in 1851. More on Julius Hübner

The Story of Melusine (Medieval France, 1394), by Linda Foubister, is about the fairy, Melusine,  the daughter of the fairy Pressyne and King Elynas of Albany. She became the fairy Queen of the forest of Colombiers in the French region of Poitou. One day, she and two of her subjects were guarding their sacred fountain when a young man, Raymond of Poitiers, burst out of the forest. Melusine spent the night talking with Raymond, and by dawn, they were betrothed, but with one condition. Melusine requested that Raymond promise that he would never see her on a Saturday. He agreed, and they were married.

Troy Howell

The Mystery Of Melusine, a French mermaid story, 1993

Troy Howell first creative work was called “Red Crayon on Green Carpet.” His first published work appeared in Cricket magazine. His debut novel, The Dragon of Cripple Creek (Abrams/Amulet), features the last dragon on earth, whose life is endangered by a twenty-first century gold rush that’s triggered by a 12-year-old girl.

Troy’s work has won awards, starred reviews, and the like. But what matters most to him is work well done, that tugs at the reader or viewer in some way, whether it’s wonder, a laugh, a new thought, a sigh. Those are the best rewards. More on Troy Howell

Melusine brought her husband great wealth and prosperity. She built the fortress of Lusignan so quickly that it appeared to be made by magic. Over time, Melusine built many castles, fortresses, churches, towers and towns, each in a single night, throughout the region. She and Raymond had ten children, but each child was flawed. The eldest had one red eye and one blue eye, the next had an ear larger than the other, another had a lion’s foot growing from his cheek, and another had but one eye. The sixth son was known as Geoffrey-with-the-great tooth, as he had a very large tooth. In spite of the deformities, the children were strong, talented and loved throughout the land.

One day, Raymond’s brother visited him and made Raymond very suspicious about the Saturday activities of his wife. So the next Saturday, Raymond sought his wife, finding her in her bath where he spied on her through a crack in the door. He was horrified to see that she had the body and tail of a serpent from her waist down. He said nothing until the day that their son, Geoffrey-with-the-great tooth, attacked a monastery and killed one hundred monks, including one of his brothers. Raymond accused Melusine of contaminating his line with her serpent nature, thus revealing that he had broken his promise to her.

Alexandra V. Bach

Melusine

Digital Art / Photomanipulation 

As a result, Melusine turned into a fifteen-foot serpent, circled the castle three times, wailing piteously, and then flew away. She would return at night to visit her children, then vanish. Raymond was never happy again. Melusine appeared at the castle, wailing, whenever a count of Lusignan was about to die or a new one to be born. It was said that the noble line which originated with Melusine will reign until the end of the world. Her children included the King of Cyprus, the King of Armenia, the King of Bohemia, the Duke of Luxembourg, and the Lord of Lusignan. More on Melusine

Alexandra V. Bach is a celebrated digital artist whose exceptional work has graced countless book covers in her native France. Her work is lush, mysterious and richly detailed, with a flare for fantasy and gothic horror with an old school romantic touch.

Since 2003, Alexandra has collaborated as cd cover artist with metal bands such as Kamelot, Adagio, Anneke Van Giersbergen and Arjen Lucassen’s The Gentle Storm, Stream of Passion, Melissa Ferlaak and many more.

In France, Alexandra has worked for leading publishers such as Flammarion, Bragelonne, ActuSF as well as many independent publishers.

In 2013 she created artwork for game Legend of the Cryptids (Applibot, Japan) and creates custom playing tokens for GND Cards (Greece). More on Alexandra V. Bach

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5d

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Gustave Wertheimer,  (Austrian, 1847–1904)

A nude woman on ship/ The enchanted sleeper

Oil on canvas

101.5 x 82.5 cm. (40 x 32.5 in.)

Private collection

Gustav Wertheimer (born January 28, 1847 in Vienna , † August 24, 1902 in Paris ) was an Austrian genre and portrait painter.

Wertheimer began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Joseph von Führich . Since May 10, 1870 he studied in the technical painting class of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Wilhelm von Diez .  After graduation, he worked in Munich. At the Vienna World Fair in 1873 he presented for the first time a larger work: Nero during the fire in Rome . This had previously been presented at the Vienna Kunstsalon. In 1881 he moved Wertheimer to Paris,  where he remained until his death.

In Paris, Wertheimer experienced his greatest successes. His participation in art exhibitions in Amsterdam ,  London , New Orleans and Paris earned him numerous medals and prizes. He also received honorary awards at the Paris World’s Fair in 1889 and 1900. More on Gustav Wertheimer

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5c

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Knut Ekvall, (1843–1912)

The Fisherman and The Siren

Oil on canvas

Private collection

According to Greek myths, sirens were powerful and erotic creatures, and many unsuspecting sailors would fall prey to their seductive beauty. The common belief was that they would devour sailors after their ships would crash into the rocks, as most men couldn’t resist the temptation of their sweet melodies and angelic faces. More on The Fisherman and The Siren

Knut Ekwall (3 April 1843 – 4 April 1912), was a Swedish painter. From 1860-1866 he studied  at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm, with emphasis on xylography (designing woodcut printing blocks) and drawing.

In 1870, Ekwall established himself as an artist in Munich, and later worked in Leipzig. His works during this period were primarily for magazine illustrations, and were reproduced as engravings.

He returned to Sweden and died there at the age of 69. More on Knut Ekwall

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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5b

Ilya Repin, (1844–1930)

Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, c. 1876

Oil on canvas canvas

Height: 3,225 mm (126.97 in). Width: 2,300 mm (90.55 in).

State Russian Museum

Sadko is the principal character in a Russian medieval epic bylina. He was an adventurer, merchant, and musician from Novgorod. 

One day, as Sadko was playing his gusli/zither on the shores of a lake. The Sea Tsar (a Merman) was listening, and enjoying, his music, an so wanted compensate Sadko. The Sea Tzar instructed Sadko to make a bet with the local merchants about catching a certain fish in the lake; when he caught it (as provided by the Tsar), the merchants had to pay the wager, making Sadko a rich merchant.

Sadko traded on the seas with his new wealth, but did not pay proper respects to the Tsar as per their agreement. The Tsar stopped Sadko’s ships in the sea. He and his sailors tried to appease the Sea Tsar with gold, to no avail. Sadko’s crew forced him to jump into the sea. There, he again played the gusli for the Sea Tsar. This time the Tsar offered him a new bride. On advice, he took the last maiden in a long line, and lay down beside her.

He woke up on the shore and rejoined his wife. More on Sadko

Palekh painting

Sadko

In another tale,  Sadko played his magic gusli to call for the Sea Czar to create a storm  to save his city from enemy’s ships.

Palekh has a very long history in Russian iconography, the art of painting Russian Orthodox icons for homes and churches. The village emerged as a leading center of Russian icon- and mural-painting in the 19th century.

A good example of the Palekh school are the murals and icons from the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross. More on Palekh

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August 1844 – 29 September 1930) was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1883) and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–91).

Repin was born in Chuguyev, in the Kharkov Governorate (now Ukraine) of the Russian Empire into a military family. He entered military school in 1854 and in 1856 studied under Ivan Bunakov, a local icon painter. He began to paint around 1860. In 1874–1876 he showed at the Salon in Paris and at the exhibitions of the Itinerants’ Society in Saint Petersburg. He was awarded the title of academician in 1876.

In 1901 he was awarded the Legion of Honour. In 1911 he traveled to the World Exhibition in Italy, where his painting 17 October 1905 and his portraits were displayed in their own separate room. In 1916 Repin worked on his book of reminiscences, Far and Near. He welcomed the Russian Revolution of 1917. Celebrations were held in 1924 in Kuokkala to mark Repin’s 80th birthday, followed by an exhibition of his works in Moscow. In 1925 a jubilee exhibition of his works was held in the Russian Museum in Leningrad. Repin died in 1930 and was buried at the Penates. More on Ilya Yefimovich Repin

 

 

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5a

A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent.

Arthur Hopkins, 1848-1930

A FANTASY OF THE DEEP, c. 1903

Watercolour with bodycolour

97 by 66cm., 38 by 26in.

Private Collection

Arthur Hopkins, 1848-1930, son of a prosperous marine insurance agent, was born on 30th December, 1848, in Stratford, London. Arthur was educated at Lancing College in Sussex, and, after graduation, worked in a London office before entering the Royal Academy schools in 1872.

He exhibited in various London galleries, chiefly that of the Royal Water-Colour Society and that of the Royal Academy, but over twenty-five years also contributed illustrations to The Graphic, Punch, and The Illustrated London News. He was made an Associate of the Royal Water-Colour Society in 1877, and a member in 1896. Arthur Hopkins’ genre scenes of country life are in much the style of another Hardy illustrator, Helen Patterson Allingham. He was a member of the rising generation of illustrators influenced by du Maurier and William Small. On the staff of The Illustrated London News in 1873, he redrew William Simpson’s drawings of the Madoc Indian War. As a member M. E. Braddon’s staff at The Belgravia, he illustrated James Payn’s By Proxy (1877 and Confidential Agent (1879), Wilkie Collins’s Haunted Hotel (1878), Charles Gibbon’s Queen of the Meadow (1879), and Justin McCarthy’s Donna Quixote (1879). More on Arthur Hopkins

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