Sunday Stamps - Paintings: Panama

I have photographed the stamps I am showing this week as I cannot use my scanner with my Macbook Air. Both show paintings of sailing ships from the 17th to the 19th Century, but by different artists.

Panama 7 May 1968

Roque Camiero was a Portuguese painter who specialised in water colours. He died in 1935

Panama - 7 May 1968

Ludwig Lebreton (1818-1866) was a French painter and mariner. The American whaling ship, the Uncas, was built in 1828 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA. The ship is named after Unk, the commander-in-chief of the Indian Mohegan tribe.

For other paintings and artists just follow the links at Sunday Stamps

Paintings - Sunday Stamps II

This has been an interesting theme for me and has sent me on a wide search for details of the painters - as you will see.

Great Britain - 12 August 1968

'Pinkie' by Thomas Lawrence is a depiction of an eleven year old girl named Sarah Barrett Moulton. The portrait hangs in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

John Egerton Christmas Piper became an official WWII artist and visited Coventry after the city and its cathedral was raised to the ground. His paintings of churches included the 'Ruins of St Mary le Port, Bristol. The stamp is from the same set as that by Lawrence.

St Mary Le Port 

A set of Ulster 71 paintings included the stamp, 'A Mountain Road.' 

Great Britain - 16 June 1971

All I have been able to discover about the artist, T P Flanagan, was that he became the fourth (I think) President of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts.

Details of Francis Calcraft Turner, who produced an aquatint of the Liverpool Great National Steeple Chase 1839, were even more difficult to find. The stamp was one of a set of Horse Racing Paintings & the Bicentenary of the Derby issued on 6 June 1979.

For more paintings please check out the links at Violet's Sunday-Stamps-II-81.

Row Your Boat - Sepia Saturday

There is an old nursery rhyme called  'Row, Row, Row Your Boat.' Before I could match the theme

I had to find me a boat by searching the house. This is what I found.

Boats a plenty - one one the left, a single rower?

Try as I might I can hardly claim a rowing boat in the next picture along.

Beached!

Looking for a model answer all I could come up with was 

A model yacht

I got quite excited when I enlarged the photo bomb.

Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge

So a old photo of the Transporter (and two tugs) has made it across to Michigan - but again not a rowing boat in sight.

I wonder whether I can claim a model rowing boat

Two oars - but a sail as well

In desperation I thought back to my time in Norway.

But the rower had abandoned ship!

I guess that's a hint for a landlubber like me to hand you over to other champion rowers at Sepia-saturday-193.