ARTIST: John Bentham Dinsdale (United Kingdom, 1927 - 2008)
TITLE: The Action between HMS Java and USS Constitution, 1812 (titled on verso)
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Overall good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm
FRAME SIZE: 34 x 44 inches / 86 x 111 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
ATTENTION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office.
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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SKU#: 131769
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BIOGRAPHY:
Carrying on the storied tradition of more than 300 years of British sea painters, John Bentham-Dinsdale is an exacting scholar of the famous ships of the past. His passion finds its focus in mainly oil paintings of the great clippers and sailing warships of the 19th century.Bentham-Dinsdale studied architecture and design at Leeds University, and went on to serve as the head of design for a British television company in Tyne. He also was a commissioned officer and pilot in the royal air force during World War II. It is written that he has always painted, but took to his brushes as his sole occupation in 1965. A founding member of the British Sea Painters Group in 1970, he exhibited his first one-man show in London in 1974.