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Francis Swaine
1720-1783,English painter and draughtsman. He worked as a messenger for a department of His Majesty's Navy in 1735 and seems to have been practising as a marine painter by the late 1740s, but there is little trace of his place in London's art world until his regular contributions from 1761 to the exhibitions of both the Free and Incorporated Societies of Artists. He was awarded the Society for the Encouragement of Arts' second prize for sea-pieces in 1764 and again in 1765. 'About the year 1770', reported Edwards, 'he painted the face of a wind-dial, with sea and ships, which he executed with a great neatness'
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Painting ID:: 44773
A wooded river landscape in Hoolland with a Dutch hooder under sail in a brisk wind
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Oil on canvsa
14x17
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Painting ID:: 44774
Small craft at sea in a stiff breeze
mk175
Oil on copper panel
6x8
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Francis Swaine
1720-1783,English painter and draughtsman. He worked as a messenger for a department of His Majesty's Navy in 1735 and seems to have been practising as a marine painter by the late 1740s, but there is little trace of his place in London's art world until his regular contributions from 1761 to the exhibitions of both the Free and Incorporated Societies of Artists. He was awarded the Society for the Encouragement of Arts' second prize for sea-pieces in 1764 and again in 1765. 'About the year 1770', reported Edwards, 'he painted the face of a wind-dial, with sea and ships, which he executed with a great neatness'
. Related Artists to Francis Swaine: | Jan Van Kessel the Younger | Otto Marseus van Schrieck | Arnoldus Bloemers | Robert Havell Jr Prints | Thomas Seddon |
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