Merchant sail, working sailing ship paintings and their remarkable stories introduced via ‘Gordon Frickers’ paintings.
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"Cutty Sark Racing Thermopylae, off Krakatoa", 101 x 76 cm (40" x 30"), £3,000 (about $3,800).
Cutty Sark and Thermopylae, the most famous of the famous tea clippers racing each other off Krakatoa, most famous of all volcanos in the Sunda Straights, South by Java Head.
"Samuel Plimsoll", 25 x 20 cm (10" x 8"), commissioned.
"Schooner Race", 105 x 70 cm (41½" x 27½"), commissioned.
"The Mayflower", 63 x 40 cm (25" x 15½"), £1,250 (about $1,600).
Mayflower as painted here truly represents the best of the British and American idealism, courage and sense of adventure.
"“Waterwitch” off Gribben Head, Cornwall", 50 x 40 cm (19½" x 15½"), sold or otherwise no longer available. Available as a print from our print page.
"Carracks, Portuguese, Gironde", 61 x 48 cm (24" x 19"), £1,250 (about $1,600).
A spirited painting of Carracks arriving in the Gironde Estuary from Portugal.
"Lapérouse and the First Fleet at Botany Bay", 91 x 61 cm (36" x 24"),
Laperouse was the French answer to the discoveries of Captain Jame Cook, our scene is #Botany-Bay, #Australia, #The-First-Fleet.
"Pirates ! Dhow in pursuit of a Portuguese galleon", 63 x 53 cm (25" x 21"), £1,500 (about $1,900).
Dhows with their very long ancestry, have seen more adventures than there are in Arabian Nights; and are still used by Somali Pirates!
"Mayflower off Plymouth", 51 x 25 cm (20" x 10"), sold to a private collection in the USA.
"Barnabas, lugger", 35 x 23 cm (14" x 9"), £357 (about $450).
Cornish Lugger, ‘Barnabas’, a very early (approximately 1974) example of my emerging talent so potentially a good investment as my reputation grows.
"Pearl fishermen and a Sanbaq Dhow", 53 x 63 cm (21" x 25"), £2,000 (about $2,500).
A painting of one of these picturesque historic vessels engaged in an ancient and romantic trade, vessels little known beyond their home waters.
"Dhow and Dolphins", 61 x 48 cm (24" x 19"), £1,500 (about $1,900).
Dolphins love to accompany ships often playing in the pressure wave created by water displaced by the moving hull.
"Arab pirate dhow", 62 x 47 cm (24½" x 18½"), Original sold to the government of Oman for use in a private reception room.
"“Jane Banks” entering Bermuda", 61 x 41 cm (24" x 16"), £1,250 (about $1,600). Also available as a print from our print page.
The schooner “Jane Banks”, running mate of the famous ‘Waterwitch’ of Fowey, sailed into history as the last pure sailing British square rigger to trade abroad and the engine-less last topsail schooner to operate from a British Port, Fowey in Cornwall.
"Maria Asumpta", 91 x 61 cm (36" x 24"), long since sold.
"Schooners “Rhoda Mary” & “Katie Cluett”", 122 x 76 cm (48" x 30"), commissioned by Frank Trebilcock, a descendant of the families who built the three renowned vessels two schooners and a sloop. Available as a print from our print page.
"Cutty Sark, “Last Departure”, “Ferreira”", 102 x 76 cm (40" x 30"), original painting displayed on board Cutty Sark, subsequently sold to a descendant of Vasco da Gamma. Available as a print from our print page.
"“Last Arrival”", 91 x 61 cm (36" x 24"), original sold, was also available as a signed numbered print on canvas, now sold out.
"Tectona & Moyana off the Eddystone", commissioned by a former crewman, he became a Captain, later Professor and head of department. Now retired, he still teaches in the maritime dept occasionally.
"“Tectona”", 61 x 41 cm (24" x 16"), £850 (about $1,100).
Tectona has a new future working as a sail training project for people with mental health and drug miss-use problems, all based in Plymouth.
63 x 40 cm (15 3/4″ x 25 3/4″) for sale, available, offers from £ 1,450
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Many distinguished people and renowned companies have chosen Frickers paintings as you can discover by reading my illustrated résumée.
Frickers paintings have been exhibited at many venues in Britain and Europe including by invitation a one man show in the European Parliament.
91 x 61 cm [24″ x 26″], £1,500 for sale, available, offers from £ 1,500
A bargain any good gallery should be delighted to offer this fine, accurately detailed painting.
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40″ x 30″, For sale, available, offers from £3,000.
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Behind every ship, every painting is a story you can discover via the hyperlinks, enjoy !
The choice of many distinguished people and renowned companies, Gordon Frickers is widely considered a master of spectacular paintings.
Ship, merchant sail sold, still available as prints
40″ x 30″, original sold, PRINTS are available
Available as a very limited edition print from £ 187 inc p&p from Marine Art Prints.
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A very early example of my emerging talent, likely to be much more valuable some day soon…
23 X 35 cm (9″ x 14″) for sale, available £ 357.
Barnabas, lugger, watercolour,
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Merchant Ships, a debt in part repaid :
I learnt much from some of the last Britons to work cargo under sail, seamanship, self reliance, many attitudes, which have become for me, intuitive, instinct, part of my soul.
We shall not see their like again, nor another like me, we are the last of the breed.
I am now sharing this with you.
For sale, available, offers from £ 1,000
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“Waterwitch” off Gribben Head, Cornwall
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The original long since sold to a gentleman in Plymouth.
Ships, an invaluable connection
My basic seamanship and respect for salt waters was learnt as an adolescent with the very last men who traded without engines.
Those iron Men represented the very last of their kind.
They were in a very real sense an honour to be with as the sun set gloriously on the long history of British merchant sail.
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Ships, years later :
I realised I’d learned upon the very same waters Drake, Cook and Nelson learned their small boat handling, the Swale, the Thames, the Medway estuaries.
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“Shipping wine, Carracks arriving in the Gironde“.
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More recently, I have come to realise, to have this connection, unique among today’s marine artists, with those tough, modestly courageous, hard working and very skilled men is a qualification, an honour.
These hardy men were and still are a profound influence of my marine paintings.
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If you appreciate and are looking for the best in marine painting you have found it here.
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48″ x 30″ commissioned and sold, painted for a gentleman in Florida USA for the centrepiece of his new house and who’s ancestors built the three vessels in #Cornwall.
23 X 35 cm (9″ x 14″) sold to a private collector
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25.5 x 20 cm (8″ x 10″) Golden Hind, the second ship to circumnavigate the world.
Her was captain Francis Drake, later knighted for his achievements.
I’m sad to say this mini masterpiece was taken to Holland by Maryse Sportouch, and never paid for. Piracy? At least I retain the copyright…
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Baghlah – the traditional deep-sea dhow
SOLD, commissioned on behalf of and sold to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said.
This image appears with my permission as copyright holder as the front cover of a best selling book “The Corsair“.
Fine paintings sell books.
SOLD to a private collector, “at last I have a real painting in my house“, T. M., of Wiltshire.
‘My’ old ship :
‘Maria Asumpta‘ was ship I spent very many hours aboard.
36″ x 24″, Painting SOLD to a private collector via A E Dutton, a Chester gallery.
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“Rhoda Mary” and “Katie Cluett”
48″ x 30″ commissioned by & sold to a private collector.
Commissioned by a gentleman of Falmouth, Cornwall.
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36″ x 24″ sold to a private collector.
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Tectona & Moyana off the Eddystone
36″ x 24″ sold to a private collector, a sea captain and professor of Marine Technology at Plymouth University.
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“Tectona, dawn off Bolt Head”
61 x 40 cm, (24″ x 15 3/4″) Available, £ 850.,
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Bonhams :
“As Gordon’s marine art here demonstrates, over the years Gordon Frickers has deepened his affinity for merchant sailing ships, painted many and sailed upon a few including ‘Maria Asumpta”: Nick Bonham, director, Bonhams of Knightsbridge, London.
At the time the ‘Maria Asumpta’ was the oldest sailing 19th century square rigger anywhere, and still capable of carrying cargo, Maria Asumpta.
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