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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
VIEW OF THE PORT AND BAY OF VALPARAISO, CHILE
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A great natural talent, Somerscales took a rather unorthodox route to becoming a recognized marine art sensation in his native England. Educated as a teacher, he sketched and painted while serving onboard ships in the Royal Navy as a schoolmaster. Influenced early on by the beauty of J.M.W. Turner’s compositions, Somerscales’ work possesses his accurate sense for the world’s creative nature, and the deep strength of its challenging oceans.
Some of his earliest known works are of exotic lo (showing 500 of 1508 characters). |
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