Merchant sailing ships (and pirates) these paintings includes much unique information.
Lapérouse and the First Fleet at Botany Bay, this is the only painting to show these two ships Astrolabe and Boussole reasonably accurately and I can prove this claim.
A happy chance encounter for Laperouse, who’s ill fated voyage was the French answer to the sensational discoveries of Captain James Cook.
91 x 61 cm (36″ x 24″), 5,000 £.
Hyperlink to Lapérouse and the First Fleet at Botany Bay.
Uniquely, Tectona has a remarkable story.
Tectona off Bolt Head is 61 x 38 cm, (24″ x 15″) and available and easy to buy via the purchase page on this website. Tectona off Bolt Head is available for 1175 £ and may be purchased by arrangement, in interest free instalments.
Follow this Tectona hyperlink above for more of the story or contact Gordon Frickers.
This website and Gordon Frickers with this painting saved this historic old vessel and helped put her back to work sail training young people.
"Flight to Freedom, Mayflower.", 51 x 25 cm (20" x 10"), £1,175.
The #Mayflower sailed from #Plymouth to immortality, to found the colony that has become the super power, the United States of America.
"“Waterwitch” off Gribben Head, Cornwall", 50 x 40 cm (19½" x 15½"), Sold to a private collector. 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.
"Cutty Sark Racing Thermopylae, off Krakatoa", 101 x 76 cm (40" x 30"), £3,000.
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.
"Slavery, Pirates.", 63 x 53 cm (25" x 21"), £1,500.
Dhows with their very long ancestry, have seen more adventures than there are in Arabian Nights; and are still used by Somali Pirates!
At the time the ‘Maria Asumpta’ was the oldest sailing 19th century square rigger anywhere, and still capable of carrying cargo, Maria Asumpta.
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.
"Carracks, Portuguese, Gironde", 61 x 48 cm (24" x 19"), £1,250.
A spirited painting of Carracks arriving in the Gironde Estuary from Portugal.
"Barnabas, lugger", 35 x 23 cm (14" x 9"), £357.
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 Pirate Dhow", 53 x 63 cm (21" x 25"), £2,000.
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.
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. 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.
"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.
"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 off Bolt Head", 61 x 40 cm (24" x 15½"), £1,175.
A unique painting and story; Tectona off Bolt Head, (available) saved this historic old vessel and helped put her back to work sail training young people.
Many of Gordon Frickers’ other paintings are available as prints from our print gallery priced from £187 inc p&p.
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