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Arthur Quartley

Arthur Quartley (1839 - 1886) was active/lived in New York, Maryland / England, France.  Arthur Quartley is known for Marine, seascape and landscape painting, engraving.

Arthur Quartley (May 24, 1839 - May 19, 1886), was an American painter known for his marine seascapes.

Quartley was born in Paris and lived there to the age of twelve, when his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He studied drawing with his father C.G. Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father was reputed to have demanded two drawings per week from the young lad. At age 17, Arthur was apprenticed to a sign painter in Baltimore.

In 1862 Quartley and his family founded a design firm in Baltimore.  The firm Emmart & Quartley was regarded as the best decorating company in the city (Dictionary of American Biography); however, young Quartley began painting marine seascapes of Chesapeake Bay, and progressively spent more and more time in that pursuit. He held a successful show of marine paintings at the studio of Norval H. Busey in Baltimore. Scholar Elizabeth Johns remarked that Quartley's work reveals familiarity with the Dutch Masters marine tradition   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4422 characters.]  Artist bio

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