‘Liverpool’s ship portrait artists’
by Tony Tibbles, Former Director of the Maritime Museum Liverpool and author of The Dictionary of Liverpool Marine and Ship Portraitists
The Maritime Museum, Liverpool, Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 5:30 p.m
‘Liverpool’s ship portrait artists’
by Tony Tibbles, Abstract
Since the late eighteenth century Liverpool has been home, permanently
or temporarily, to more than seventy artists whose principal activity was
painting portraits of many of the ships that visited or were based in the
port. They produced thousands of paintings which are now often the
only surviving visual record of those ships.
In this lecture, Tony Tibbles will look at who these artists were and the
paintings they produced. Some, like Samuel Walters and Joseph Heard,
were very successful and were able to sustain themselves from their
painting, but the majority of them relied on other work, whether it was
associated, such as producing promotional material for the many local
shipping companies, or unrelated, including plumbing and house
decoration. Whilst some have well-known careers, others are more
shadowy and some remain unidentified except for the work they
produced.
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