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A collection of oil paintings depicting ships navigating rough seas, maritime life, and coastal views, showcasing dramatic skies and vibrant water movements.

A Coastal Scene with Dutch Vessels and a Fish Market. Willaerts, Abraham (1603/1613-1669), painter
A Coastal Scene with Dutch Vessels and a Fish Market. Willaerts, Abraham (1603/1613-1669), painter
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Clarkson Stanfield, 1793-1867, British, Tilbury Fort--Wind Against the Tide, 1853. Oil on canvas.Rough Sea with Ships. Dating: 1697. Measurements: h 31.5 cm × w 39 cm; d 4 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Ludolf Bakhuysen.Ships along the Shore. Dating: 1628. Measurements: support: h 43 cm × w 79.5 cm; d 7 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Adam Willaerts.The Man-of-War Brielle on the River Maas off Rotterdam. In 1688 this ship carried Prince William III to England to drive the Catholic King James II from power and to safeguard the Protestant faith. The Latin inscription on the red flag translates as for faith and freedom’.Bakhuysen painted this picture in 1689, the year in which William III and Mary Stuart were crowned kingand queen regnant of England.'Stormy Sea'. Holland, 1626. Dimensions: 84,5x114 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: ADAM WILLAERTS.A Coastal Scene with Dutch Vessels and a Fish Market. Willaerts, Abraham (1603/1613-1669), painterAlfred Gomersal Vickers, 1810-1837, British, Shipping Scene in the Harbor of Dunkerque, undated. Watercolor, graphite and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.View on the Thames with Westminster Bridge. Date/Period: Between 1743 and 1744. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 635 mm (25 in); Width: 762 mm (30 in). Author: Samuel Scott.'Harbour at the Mediterranean Sea'. Holland, No earlyer than 1690s. Dimensions: 44x56,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Wigerus Vitringa.A Two-Decker and other Shipping Offshore, Nicholas Pocock, 1740-1821, British, between 1755 and 1821, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 inches (18.4 × 25.4 cm), marine art, ocean, sails, shipsSamuel Atkins, active 1787-1808, British, active in the East Indies (1796-1804), Man-of-War and Shipping off the Coast, undated. Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper.Follower of Claude Lorrain, Harbor at Sunset, late 17th century Harbor at SunsetMarine watercolours, works on paperShipping Off the Coast, follower of François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772-1839, French, active in Britain, formerly attributed to François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772-1839, French, active in Britain, undated, Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, pasted on mount, Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (14.9 x 23.2 cm), boats, flag, marine art, sailboats, sea, seamen, shipsClaude Joseph Vernet (14 August 1714 - 3 December 1789), French painter, here his work, A Coastal Scene, A Storm on the Mediterranean Coast, a dramatic scene with a three-master in distress during a storm on a rocky coast. In the foreground are shipwrecked people trying to save themselves on land, Painting, Reproduction of the painting, Work of art, HistoricalShipbreed of two ships, one of which is under American flag, on a dune coast, Martinus Schouman, 1780 - 1848 drawing paper. watercolor (paint). ink pen / brush storm at sea. shipwreck. flag, colours (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ nation; national) United States of America'The Battle of Lepanto of 1571' (detail), 1887, Oil on canvas. Author: JUAN LUNA Y NOVICIO (1857-1900). Location: SENADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. JUAN D'AUSTRIA. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616).Shipping in the Thames Estuary. Date/Period: Between 1761 and 1766. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 460 mm (18.11 in); Width: 572 mm (22.51 in). Author: Thomas Mellish.Augustus William Reeve, active 1831-1888, In the Channel, undated. Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.ERTVELT, Andries van (1590-1652). Spanish Ships Leaving a Port. 1st half 17th c. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History).Harbor with Sailboats and Ferry Boat. Dating: 1650 - 1675. Measurements: h 107 cm × w 171.5 cm; d 9 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Hendrick Jacobsz. Dubbels.Rough Sea with Sailing Vessels, Rough sea with sailing ships, in the foreground a fishing vessel with the mark P5 on its sail, in the distance a two-master. On the right a landing stage., painter: Georges Johannes Hoffmann, Netherlands, 1850 - 1859, panel, oil paint (paint), height 16.7 cm × width 24.7 cm × thickness 1.2 cm, depth 3.6 cmPARTIDA DE COLON DESDE LA RABIDA - SIGLO XIX- PINTURA HISTORICISTA. Author: ANTONIO CABRAL BEJARANO (1788-1861). Location: MONASTERIO DE LA RABIDA. PALOS DE LA FRONTERA. Huelva. SPAIN. CRISTOBAL COLON (1451/1506).John Ward of Hull, British (1798-1849), The Northern Whale Fishery: The "Swan" and "Isabella", c. 1840, oil on canvasRochester, William Marlow, 1740-1813, British, 1780, Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 14 5/8 × 20 1/4 inches (37.1 × 51.4 cm)The decay of the ship The Union under Captain Count van Welderen on the North Sea, 19 October 1782, draughtsman: Ary van Wanum, (mentioned on object), 1782 - 1784, paper, pen, brush, h 378 mm × w 497 mmThe Maas at Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp, circa 1660, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA, North AmericaFishing Boats on Calm Water, by Antonie Waldorp, 1840-50, Dutch painting, oil on panel. At left the catch is transferred to men in a row boat. (BSLOC_2016_1_235)Theodore Weber, Seascape, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaThe Fishery, Richard Wright, ca. 1720-ca. 1775, BritishThe Junction of the Thames and the Medway Oil on canvas; 1807 Joseph Mallord William Turner; British; 1775 - 1851Samuel Atkins, active 1787-1808, British, active in the East Indies (1796-1804), Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, ca. 1800. Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper.Dutch Attacking the English off Chatham Coast, artist unknown, Netherlands, Amsterdam, RijksmuseumSamuel Owen, 1768-1857, British, Ships on a Stormy Sea, 1836. Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.Brown ink and wash drawing by an anonymous artist depicting Dutch warships in front of Amsterdam on brown-tinted parchment with spots and abrasions.Seascape, Pieter Idserts (possibly), 1708 - 1781, draughtsman: Pieter Idserts, (possibly), 1708 - 1781, paper, brush, h 123 mm × w 190 mmThe Shipwreck. Date/Period: 1805. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 170.5 cm (67.1 in); Width: 241.5 cm (95 in). Author: J. M. W. Turner.Turbulent Sea With Sailing Ships, Anonymous, 1825 - 1874 painting Turbulent sea with sailing ships. Northern Netherlands panel. oil paint (paint) storm. sailing-ship, sailing-boatPort Mahon, Minorca / This painting shows not Port Mahon in Minorca but the Gulf of Pozzuoli in Naples (in the foreground Nisida (on the left) and Pozzuoli (on the right). In the background Capo Miseno and the Monte Epomeo of Ischia island (behind). Date/Period: Ca. 1735. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 495 mm (19.48 in); Width: 1,664 mm (65.51 in). Author: Gaspar Butler.Painting of The Sun Rising Through Vapour and Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish by JWM TurnerSeascape with full moon, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, After Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1779 - 1781 print Two sailing ships sail at sea. A fisherman brings in his nets from a sloop. Amsterdam paper moonlight. sailing-ship, sailing-boatAmsterdam, Danckerts, Justus, Nooms, Reinier, Netherlands, Various embarkations and the like, Divers Embarquements et autre Faicts, Ferries on a rough sea, verso top left - pencil, A rough sea with a number of ferries., print, prints, verso lower left - stamped, verso middle left - stamped, two interlocking C's, height 80 mm, width 176 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1624 - 1664, print maker, printmaker, 1651 - 1652, third quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1635-11-11 - 1701-07-16, publisherPUERTO DE CAMARET. Author: BOUDIN, EUGENE. Location: MUSEO, LILLE, FRANCE.Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, 1818, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 62 x 92 inches (157.5 x 233.7 cm), chromaticity, church, city, cityscape, costume, crowd, flags, floatsam, fruit, jars, marine art, market (event), men, reflection, river, rowboats, rubbish, sea, seascape, ship, ships, sunlight, vegetables, women, Dordrecht, Dordrecht, Gemeente, Netherlands, Noord, Our Dear Lady Church, RotterdamBlinkov, Alexander Alexandrovich (1911-1995) State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg 1955 35x50 Oil on canvas Soviet Art Russia History J. M. W. Turner, Whalers , 1845 , Oil paint on canvas, London, England.David Cox, 1783-1859, British, Dieppe Pier, Stiff Breeze, ca. 1832. Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.BERCK,LA SALIDA DE LAS BARCAS. Author: BOUDIN, EUGENE. Location: MUSEO PROVINCIAL, REIMS, FRANCE.SACANDO LA BARCA EN DIA DE TORMENTA - SIGLO XIX. Author: JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775-1851). Location: KENWOOD HOUSE / COL IVEAGH BEQUE. LONDON. ENGLAND.Theodore Weber Theodore Weber, Marina, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes MNBA, Buenos Aires, republica Argentina, cono sur, South America Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21818426The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Attributed to John Martin, 1789-1854, British, undated, Watercolor, pen and brown ink, white gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm), boats, fish, fishermen (people), fishing, masts, miracle, New Testament, religious and mythological subject, sails, seaView of the Maas near Dordrecht. Aelbert Cuyp (Holland, 1620-1691). Holland, circa 1644-1645. Paintings. Oil on woodSauasset, tuna fishing F�lix Ziem (1821-1911). Saussset, tuna fishing. Watercolor on paper. Nineteenth century.Claude Joseph Vernet (14 August 1714 - 3 December 1789), French painter, here his work, A Shipwreck, Dramatic scene of a shipwreck on a rocky coast during a storm, Painting, Reproduction of the painting, Work of art, HistoricalThe Cyclops Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, hurls boulders at Ulysses's ship. A story in Homer's Odyssey. After a 19th century work by Louis-Frederic Schutzenberger.Auguste Etienne Francois Mayer (1805-1890). French painter. The Redoutable at Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Oil on canvas. Musee de la Marine, Paris, France.Ships at a rocky coast, Adam Willaerts, 1621Emigration to America 1860 Antonie Volkmar (1827-1867 German) Oil on canvasAdam Willaerts / 'Playa con pescadores', 1627, Dutch School, Oil on canvas, 83 cm x 125 cm, P01899. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802-1828, British, Shipping in an Estuary, Probably near Quilleboeuf, 1825 to 1826. Watercolor over graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.Abraham Storck (or Sturckenburch) (1644-1708). Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era. View of Amsterdam from the Bay of Ij. Gemldegalerie, Berlin. Germany.Mutton Cove, Plymouth, Thomas Sewell Robins, 1814-1880, British, undated, Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 3/8 × 11 inches (21.3 × 27.9 cm), boats, buildings, marine art, people, Devon, Devonport, England, Europe, Plymouth, United KingdomNight port; Hanzen, Alexis (Aleksiej Wasiljewicz; 1876-1937); 1900-1918 (1900-00-00-1918-00-00);gift (provenance), Russian painting, nocturnes, marine landscapes, portsView of river and sailing boats by William Turner, Oil on canvas, circa 1826, 1775-1851, Great Britain, London, Tate Britain, 174x225Dover Pier, Joshua Cristall, 1768-1847, British, ca. 1807, Watercolor with scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 12 5/16 x 16 3/16 inches (31.2 x 41.1 cm), barrels, baskets, birds, boats, bonnets, cargo, children, coats, crowd, dock, dresses, genre subject, hats, leisure, men, pier, pipes, resting, ropes, sailboats, sails, seated, ships, talking, telescopes, trousers, wharf, women, Dover, England, English Channel, Kent, United Kingdomfine arts, Achenbach, Andreas, (1815 - 1910), painting, ""Fischmarkt in Ostende"", (""fish market in Ostend""), 1876, oil on canvas, 222 cm x 300 cm, municipal museum of arts, D™sseldorf, germany, Europe, 19th century, ship, ships, fishing boat, boats, harbour, harbours, commerce,Action of weapons of Cadiz against the Moors in 1574. Barbary pirates on the Torregorda beach. Oil on canvas by Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans (1843-1917). Museum of Fine Arts of Cadiz. Andalusia. Spain.The Deluge towards Its Close ca. 1813 Joshua Shaw American, born England Representations of the Flood, described in Genesis as the overwhelming punishment for humanitys flagrant sins, go back to the early Renaissance. In Shaws day, J. M. W. Turner and Benjamin West also painted this subject. In the Museums terrifying depiction of the darkness and desolation, painted about 1813, Shaw is indebted to Wests treatment of the theme, adopting for the foreground of his own painting Wests uprooted tree, which lies diagonally on the earth, surrounded by the ghastly bodies of the drowned, and festooned with the limp carcass of a gigantic snake. West seems not to have minded Shaws borrowing and wrote to him in high praise of this powerfully romantic and emotional picture. Joshua Shaw was an English artist who was forty when he came to this country, four years after painting "The Deluge". He had been well trained and enjoyed considerable success in the field of landscape painting.. The DelugeThe Shipwreck 1782 France. Pastel on gessoed canvas . Jean Baptiste PillementThe Fighting Temeraire towed to the last berth of her to be broken up, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1839, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London, England, Great Britain.Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Flemish painter. The Mill by the Landing Stage, 1613. Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne. Germany.Claude Joseph Vernet (14 August 1714 - 3 December 1789), French painter, here his work, Storm, dramatic storm on a rocky coast in which a ship is wrecked and people on the shore are in danger, Painting, Reproduction of the painting, Work of art, HistoricalBreezing Up Winslow Homer Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)Portuguese Carrack from the 16th century. Oil on canvas by Joao Vaz (1859-1931). Maritime Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.Watson and the Shark ca. 1778 John Singleton Copley American Copley painted this rapid study for "Watson and the Shark" from his first rendering of the iconic worknow in the National Gallery of Art, Washingtonin preparation for successive versions, found in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It depicts the future Lord Mayor of London, Brook Watson, who, as a teenager, lost his leg to a shark while swimming in Havana harbor in 1749. A Black sailor forms the apex of the composition, holding a rope for the victim who later famously defended the slave trade in the West Indies. Copley’s dramatic depiction of an ordinary man in the midst of an extraordinary event of unresolved peril in the Atlantic World revolutionized British-American history painting.. Watson and the Shark. John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738-1815 London). American. ca. 1778. Oil on canvasLoading of goods from the boats to wagons, detail from the port of Toulon, by Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789).JOAQUIM, Leandro (1738-1798). Whale Hunt in Guanabara's Bay. 2nd half 18th c. Oil on canvas. BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro. National Historical Museum.The Harbor of Dieppe. Date/Period: Ca. 1826. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 173.7 cm (68.3 in); Width: 225.4 cm (88.7 in). Author: J. M. W. Turner.Michel Jean Cazabon, 1814-1888, Trinidadian, active in France ca. 1839-1847, Los Gallos, Icacos Bay, 1857. Pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash, black wash, graphite, gouache and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige, wove paper.Joseph Mallord William Turner (1785-1851) was a British Romantic, landscape painter, water colorist, and printmaker. It is said that his style lay the foundation for the movement known as Impressionism. His paintings number in the thousands. Among his best-known works are A Ship Aground, Arth from the Lake of Zug, and Lausanne. This painting, titled The Fighting Temeraire, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839. The previous year, Turner and friends were bound for Greenwich by water They passed a steam-tug towing a superannuated battleship. "That's a fine subject for you, Turner," said Stanfield. The painter took the hint, and produced "The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up.".Plymouth Sound from the Hoe, Nicholas Condy, 1793-1857, British, undated, Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 7 x 10 1/16 inches (17.8 x 25.6 cm), camera obscura, coastal fortifications, landscape, leisure, lighthouse, marine art, science, ships, sound, umbrellas, Breakwater lighthouse, Devon, England, Plymouth, Plymouth Camera Obscura, Plymouth Hoe, Plymouth Sound, United KingdomGustave Courbet, The Sailboat (Seascape), c. 1869, oil on canvas.'Morning in the Harbour'. France, Late 1630s - early 1640s. Dimensions: 73x98 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Gellée, Claude, dit Le Lorrain.The Great Fire of London. Date/Period: Ca. 1797. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 600 mm (23.62 in); Width: 813 mm (32 in). Author: Philip James de Loutherbourg.Launching the boat, boat built by the castaways, Auckland islands, New Zealand, drawing by Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) from a sketch by Raynal, from Wrecked on a Reef, 1863-1865, by Francois-Edouard Raynal, from Il Giro del mondo (World Tour), Journal of geography, travel and costumes, Volume III, No 41, October 7, 1869. Digitally colorized image.View of the city of Seville. Detail. Madrid, Museum of America. Author: Attributed to SANCHEZ COELLO. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.Luisa Sanfelice being transported from Palermo to Naples, September 2, 1800, to be beheaded, 1884, by Gioacchino Toma (1836-1891), oil on canvas, 114x177 cm. Detail. Bourbon restoration, Italy, 19th century.HISTORIA DE GIBRALTAR. "Gibraltar" (1837).. Dibujo de David Roberts, litografía de W. Gauci. Londres, 1837.The Dutch East India Company, or VOC, was a chartered company granted a monopoly by the Dutch government to carry out colonial activities in Asia. It was the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to issue stock. It was also arguably the world's first megacorporation, possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts, negotiate treaties, coin money and establish colonies. The VOC was set up in 1602 to gain a foothold in the East Indies (Indonesia) for the Dutch in the lucrative spice trade, which until that point was dominated by the Portuguese. Between 1602 and 1796, the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted more than 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods.Fishermen and Hunters, Arent Arentsz, c. 1625 - c. 1630 painting Coastal landscape with on the left a group of fishermen with baskets with fish and a few hunters on the right with their guns. Different ships sail on the water. Pendant of SK-A-1448. panel. oil paint (paint) sea and coastal fishery. hunter. coastJoseph Mallord William Turner / 'Fire at Sea', c. 1835, Oil on canvas, 171 x 220 cm. Museum: NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDRES, UK.Astrakhan by Vereshchagin, Pyotr Petrovich (1836-1886)/ Regional Art Museum, Gorlovka/ 1879/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Realism/ 82x125/ LandscapeThe storm, by Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789). Detail.Moonlight Over the Port of Boulogne 1868 Edouard Manet (1832-1883 French) Oil on canvas Musee d'Orsay, Paris, FranceLeif Eriksson Sights Land in America 1893 Christian Krohg (1852-1925 Norwegian) Oil on canvas National Gallery, Oslo, NorwayBlue networks; Cylkow, Ludwik (1877-Post 1934); before 1911 (1897-00-00-1911-00-00);Young Poland (Styl), Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Warsaw - 1860-1940) - collectionPort of Bordeaux , Fine ArtMANET , EDOUARD. PINTOR FRANCES . 1832 - 1883. " EL PESCADOR ". MUSEO DE WUPPERTAL . ALEMANIA.Whalers, JMW Turner, circa 1845, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North AmericaRubens, Pieter Paul (1577-1640) National Gallery, London Painting 55x85 Bible The Miraculous Draught of Fishes