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James Wilson Carmichael, also known by the first name John, was a marine painter from Newcastle who had experienced seafaring and trained in shipbuilding. His Moonlight Coastal Scene of 1840 depicts wreckers luring a vessel with a fire while a boat waits for the opportunity to plunder it.
In Sunderland Old Pier and Lighthouse, also dated 1840 at the Laing Art Gallery, a dismasted brig lies at anchor awaiting a lifeboat. A Whaler off a Mountainous Coast at Greenwich, painted in the middle of the nineteenth century, instead places the vessel within an imagined environment. Glaciers, steep peaks, whales and bursts of light together construct a Romantic vision of distant seas.
This profile brings together identity references for James Wilson Carmichael and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on cardboard
Attribué à Carmichael, James Wilson — zugeschrieben Schiffe in stürmischer See
Öl auf Karton
zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2017-12-15
Attributed
Published result : 700 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 700–900
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à Carmichael, James Wilson — zugeschrieben Fischerboote auf rauher See
Öl auf Leinwand
zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2017-12-15
Attributed
Published result : 990 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 900–1300
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