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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.

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.
Alfred Sisley, Bristol Channel from Penarth, Evening.
Henri-Edmond Cross, The Iles d'Or.
Theo Van Rysselberghe, Man at the Helm.
Joaquin Clausell, Marina.
Geoffrey Hunt, "Victory" on the Atlantic Chase.

The "Golden Age of Ship Portraiture" occurred between 1850 and 1920. Wes Cowan. [1]

White Wings by Wilfred Knox (A. D. Bell), 1948.

Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves

Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan

Henry Smartly, QUEEN VICTORIA - a Close Call Entering Le Havre, 1843.

Michel Felice Corne, Brig Attatant of Boston coming out of Naples c.1800.

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