Gallery of Seascapes

Gallery of Seascapes

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Masefield, Sea-Fever

Thomas Moran, Much Resounding Sea, 1884.

Ludolf Backhuysen, Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast, 1667.
Jakob Philipp Hackert, Der Hafen von Livorno mit der Rettung Schiffbrüchiger, 1770.

Claude Lorrain Embarkation of Saint Ursula.
Simon de Vlieger, The Beach at Scheveningen.
Ludolf Backhuysen, The Merchant Shipping Anchorage off Texel Island with Oude Schild in the Distance
Michel Felice Corne In Action.
William Turner Shipweck of the Minotaur.
William Turner The Fighting Temeraire.
Eugene Delacroix Christ on the lake Genezareth.
Joseph B. Smith, Schooner AURELIA P. HOWE.
William Bradford, Icebound Whaling Ship.
James Whistler, Crepuscule in Opal Trouville.
Ivan Aivazovsky, Shipwreck.
Gustave Courbet, Vue d’une mer agitée près d’une falaise.
Edouard Manet The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama.
Edouard Manet Le Départ du vapeur de Folkestone.
Winslow Homer, Sunlight on the Coast.

Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing. Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Francisco de Goya, Naufragio, 1793.

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse by Jean-Frédéric Bazille.

Ivan Aivazovsky, Marine.

Renoir, The Return of the Boating Party, 1862.

Renoir, Regatta at Argenteuil, 1874.

Wassily Kandinsky, Sailboat at Sea, 1902.

Gustave Courbet, The Wave, 1871.

Claude Monet, Storm Belle-Isle coast, 1886.

Alfred Sisley, Bristol Channel from Penarth, Evening.
Thomas Moran, Fiercely the Red Sun Descending Burned His Way across the Heavens.
Thomas Moran, Sunset in Mid Ocean.
Thomas Moran, Sunset near Land's End, Cornwall, England.
Henri-Edmond Cross, The Iles d'Or.
Theo Van Rysselberghe, Man at the Helm.
Joaquin Clausell, Marina.
Geoffrey Hunt, "Victory" on the Atlantic Chase.