James L. Kochan Fine Art & Antiques

James L. Kochan Fine Art & Antiques Est. 1998. Specializing in American and British art, manuscripts, imprints, maritime and martial artifacts, 1700-1850. Established in 1998, James L.

Since "retiring" in 2024, 50% of our AGI is donated to museums and archives to support their collection and preservation programs. Kochan Fine Art & Antiques closed in 2024 with the retirement of its founder. For 25 years, it specialized in important early Americana, notably that relating to early exploration, military and maritime history of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including painting a

nd drawings, artifacts, manuscripts, rare books and ephemera. It actively served and supported a clientele of distinguished private collectors, museums, and research libraries world-wide. The quality and breadth of its well-documented inventory was complimented by an extensive in-house research library and archive, allowing it to assist institutions and private clients in building and refining their collections with confidence. Institutional clients included: Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Deerfield, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Fort Ligonier Assoc., Fort Ticonderoga, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate, The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, The Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Army Museum (London), The National Museum of the Royal Navy, The National Museum of the US Army, The Osher Map Library, The National Museum of Scotland, The Smithsonian Institution, The Society of the Cincinnati, and the William L. Clements Library.

A winter view on Wiscasset's Main Street from our new gallery to world-famous Red's Eats and the Sheepscot River beyond.
01/30/2017

A winter view on Wiscasset's Main Street from our new gallery to world-famous Red's Eats and the Sheepscot River beyond.

Our new gallery space at 75 Main Street, Wiscasset with our first show of paintings mounted. Still have to bring more o...
07/28/2016

Our new gallery space at 75 Main Street, Wiscasset with our first show of paintings mounted. Still have to bring more of the display cases up to Maine over the coming weeks.

We are delighted to have moved both our gallery and home to beautiful Wiscasset, Maine. We will have the "soft opening" ...
07/28/2016

We are delighted to have moved both our gallery and home to beautiful Wiscasset, Maine. We will have the "soft opening" for our new space at 75 Main Street during this month's Wiscasset Art Walk (http://www.wiscassetartwalk.org/), so please drop by for wine, ale, nibbles and good conversation.

Attributed to John Opie, RA (1761-1807)Portrait of Admiral Sir Graham Moore as a Midshipman, 1777Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 ...
02/21/2016

Attributed to John Opie, RA (1761-1807)
Portrait of Admiral Sir Graham Moore as a Midshipman, 1777
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in., within later, gilded, carved and moulded frame
Admiral Sir Graham Moore, GCB, GCMG (1764-1843), the brother of the gallant Sir John Moore killed at Corunna in January 1809, entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1777 at the age of thirteen. He made lieutenant in 1782 and was promoted to commander in 1790 and captain in 1794. Graham enjoyed a colorful and distinguished career during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, which included: the capture of four Spanish treasure ships in 1804; the safe es**rt of the Portuguese royal family (fleeing from the French) to Brazil in 1807-9; the Walcheren expedition of 1809; and finally, command of George III’s royal yacht Royal Sovereign in 1811. He made Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief in the Baltic in 1812 and later served as Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. John Opie,”the Cornish Wonder, was the son of a carpenter and born near Truro. His talent for portrait painting as a teen soon brought him to the attention of Dr. John Wolcott (better known as the poet “Peter Pindar”), who took the promising artist under his wing. Wolcott obtained important commissions for Opie and, upon being introduced into London society in 1780, became one of the most celebrated portrait painters of his day. Sir Joshua Reynolds, impressed by the force in shadow in Opie’s works, said that they “would not disgrace the pencil of Caravaggio.” Opie’s portraits were distinguished by identity and truth, rather than calculated to flatter or be fashionable.

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