Author, Sailor, and Artist
American
1881-1947
was an American author, sailor, and artist. He is perhaps most famous for The Ashley Book of Knots, an encyclopedic reference manual with directions for and illustrations of thousands of knots. He invented the Ashley's stopper knot. Ashley also wrote The Yankee Whaler, a study of sperm whale hunters in New England in the late 18th century and early 19th century. He was born in New Bedford, Related Paintings of Clifford Warren Ashley :. | Landscape | St.Martin's Summer | The Judgment of Cambyses | Equestrian Portrait of the Count Duke of Olivares | Dance in the City | Related Artists:
ISENBRANT, AdriaenFlemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1500-1551
Frits ThaulowNorwegian Impressionist Painter, 1847-1906
.Norwegian painter and engraver. Originally wanting to become a marine painter he studied at the art academy in Copenhagen (1870-73) as well as with the Danish marine specialist C. F. S?rensen (1818-79). He spent two winters at Karlsruhe (1873-4, 1874-5) as the pupil of Hans Gude and then went to Paris, where he spent much of the period 1875-9. His marines and coastal pictures, some of which were accepted at the Paris Salon, were only moderately successful, but he acquired a fair knowledge of contemporary French Realist art and felt that Norwegian artists should learn from it.
Paul von Franken(1818- 1884 ) - Painter
painted Paul von Franken. View of Tiflis in 1866