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Birth
1817 (St. John's, New Brunswick, Canada)
Death
1892
Lived/Active
New York
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ship portrait, yacht races, history
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William Gay Yorke's paintings of ships evolved naturally enough from a combination of artistic talent and an early life spent around sailing vessels as a shipwright, painting in his spare time. In his early thirties, he was successful enough as a painter of ships to give up his trade and paint full-time.
Yorke was born in Canada in 1817 in St. John's, New Brunswick. In 1848, he had a son, William Howard York, whom he taught to paint and with whom he collaborated on ship paintings until 18 (showing 500 of 5322 characters). |
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