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Category: PAINTERS
Wyllie was born in London in 1851 and became famous and successful through painting maritime scenes in both oil and watercolour, many of which he published as editions of etchings. Wyllie himself created the etchings from his own pictures.
His name spread, along with that of Charles Dixon, when he worked as an illustrator in the late Victorian era for the popular illustrated tabloids, The Graphic and the Illustrated London News.
Wyllie lived in Portsmouth for many years in the early 20th Century in the iconic Tower House, washed by the waters of the very entrance to Portsmouth Harbour.
A notable Wyllie artwork is a picture ("Come to Southsea and Board the Old Ship") showing public access to Britain's iconic 18th-century warship, HMS Victory, on which Admiral Lord Nelson died while leading the great 1805 defeat at Trafalgar of Napoleon's ambitions to invade Britain.
Wyllie was a prime mover in the public campaign to get HMS Victory moved from lying idly out in the waters of Portsmouth Harbour on the English south coast to her current position in dry dock as a visitor attraction at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, just a few yards from where current RN aircraft carriers and other warships come and go. She is now one of Britain's favourite tourist attractions and is only a few yards from the remains of Tudor Warship Mary Rose.
HMS Victory remains a serving warship in the Royal Navy and is the flagship of Britain's Second Sea Lord.
| William L. Wyllie - 12 LITHOGRAPHS - ENGRAVINGS - DRAWINGS - ETCHINGS
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Britannia, Valkyrie, Navahoe
1069x1280
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America's Cup 1893: The Contenders
885x1280
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Yacht race, showing Navahoe, Valkyrie and Britannia
1280x500
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The Navahoe leading Valkyrie
1280x477
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The Yachts Genesta and Puritan competing this Week at New York for the International Challenge Cup
994x1024
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'Meteor winning the Queens Cup', 1893
878x1280
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Lord Dufferin's yacht racing
220x180
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The Last Race for the America Cup
1717x1200
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Defender
1280x800
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America's Cup 1895
1280x898
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Big Yachts
1280x883
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Shamrock starting for New York
1280x951
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| William L. Wyllie - 18 PAINTINGS
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Britannia and Valkyrie
1893
1280x772
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Butterflies and Working Bees
1893
220x145
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Shamrock
1899
1280x500
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Shamrock leads Britannia
1899
1280x909
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Study of yacht
1899
1280x774
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Big Yachts Racing
1910
1280x745
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Launch of Shamrock
26 May 1914
1280x901
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Launch of Shamrock 1914
26 May 1914
1280x1017
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SHAMROCK IV
1920
1280x875
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BRITANNIA - J Class racing cutter
1920
589x390
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Shamrock
1924
838x1280
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Big Yachts
1930
788x580
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SHAMROCK V
1930
1280x888
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SHAMROCK V
1930
1280x914
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SHAMROCK V
1930
1280x905
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SHAMROCK V
1930
1280x912
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Shamrock and White Heather
1930
1280x900
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Big Yachts
1930
1280x943
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