Genre
Ships & Boats
Marine painting put the working sea on the wall. Dutch and English masters made a whole tradition of it, from the man-of-war under full sail to the fishing smack on a flat calm, reading weather and rigging with an accuracy a sailor could trust.
Key artists
Works
Lake Lucerne
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
New York Harbor with Pilot Boat "George Washington"
Marine Landscape
Threatening Sky, Bay of New York
Lake George and the Village of Caldwell
Rio de Janeiro Bay
Packet Ship Passing Castle Williams, New York Harbor
Charing Cross Bridge, London
Beach in Normandy
View at Amalfi, Bay of Salerno
Boston Harbor
Bay of New York, Sunset
The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Storm-Tossed Frigate
Felucca off Gibraltar
View from Vaekero near Christiania
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore
Lake George and the Village of Caldwell
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Isle of the Dead
Point Judith, Rhode Island
The Titan's Goblet
The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Finish—First International Race for America's Cup, August 8, 1870
Lighthouse at Groix
The Connecticut Valley
Santa Maria della Salute, Sunset
Portrait of King Charles II of England
La Grenouillère
The Harbor at Lorient
Return from the Hunt by Piero di Cosimo
Boating
The Gulf Stream
View from the Quai d'Orsay
Tea
Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseilles
Bacchus and Ariadne
Watson and the Shark
Bayside, New Rochelle, New York
Regatta at Sainte-Adresse
雪村周継筆 山水図|Landscape with Rocky Precipice
Approaching Thunder Storm
The Seine
On the Jetty
Evening Calm, Concarneau, Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso)
The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
The Flight into Egypt
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen
A Man and a Woman on Horseback
An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay
View of the Town of Alkmaar
River with a Distant Tower
The Departure of Saints Paula and Eustochium for the Holy Land
The Pelkus Gate near Utrecht
Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna
The Voyage of Life: Manhood
The Boating Party
The Northern Whale Fishery: The "Swan" and "Isabella"
Law of the Wild
Oyster Sloop, Cos Cob
Herengracht, Amsterdam
View of Emmerich
The Flight into Egypt
Harbour at Sunrise
Untitled
Banks of the Seine
The Seine at Bas-Meudon
Pitched It Sheer into the River . . . Where It Still Is Seen in the Summer
Winter Scene
Landscape Album in Various Styles: Boating in Spring Water
View of New York from New Jersey
Flood at Port-Marly
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Landscape in Auvergne
The Bridge of Louis Philippe
New York Bay and Harbor
Untitled
Vaprio d'Adda
View from Staten Island
View of the Harbor at Canton
明 王紱 江山漁樂圖 卷|Joys of the Fisherman
Mother and Child by the Sea
A Canal in Venice
Seashore, Morning
Christ Asleep during the Tempest
The Ford
元 趙原 (元) 晴川送客圖 軸|Farewell by a Stream on a Clear Day
Summer Day
View of the Battery, New York
Untitled
明 佚名 仿趙孟頫 垂虹亭圖 卷|Pavilion of the Hovering Rainbow Bridge
『大織冠』|The Great Woven Cap (Taishokkan)
Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge
View of New York from Weehawken
曽我蕭白筆 寿老人図|The God of Good Fortune Jurōjin
Untitled
Le Grand Quai, Fécamp
Landscape Album in Various Styles: The Stream of Wuling
Mt. Shenchang
English Warship Firing a Salute
Landscape with a Scene of the Conquest of America
Hackensack Meadows
Seascape
Monte Pellegrino at Palermo, Italy
The Translation of the Holy House of Loreto
元 吳鎮 蘆灘釣艇圖 卷|Fisherman
Le port de Honfleur la nuit
清 緙絲龍舟競渡圖|Dragon-boat festival performance
瀟湘八景図|Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
A River Landscape
清 王翬 倣巨然燕文貴山水圖 卷|Landscape in the Style of Juran and Yan Wengui
Houses on the Achterzaan
Untitled
明 佚名 風雨艤舟圖 團扇|Misty Landscape
The Pigeon House
瀟湘八景図|Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
元/明 佚名 舊傳趙雍 倣盛懋 蘇軾後赤壁賦圖 團扇|元/明 佚名 後赤壁賦圖 扇|Illustration of Su Shi's "Second Ode on the Red Cliff"
Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River
Gray Weather, Grande Jatte
瀟湘八景図|Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Nakhtamun's Funeral Procession, Tomb of Nakhtamun
Untitled
Marine Scene (Boats near Venice)
Summer Day on Conesus Lake
清 徐揚 等 乾隆南巡圖 （第六卷﹕大運河至蘇州） 卷|The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Six: Entering Suzhou along the Grand Canal
Market by the Seashore
Untitled
The Tow Boat Conqueror
The Plantation
Untitled
The Departure of the Gondola
山水図|Landscape
Untitled
清 倣梅清 響山泛舟圖 軸|Boating beneath Echo Hill
River View with a Village Church
狩野常信筆 四愛図 |Four Admirers
Bay and Harbor of New York from Bedlow's Island
清 徐揚等 乾隆南巡圖, 第四卷﹕黃淮交流|The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Four: The Confluence of the Huai and Yellow Rivers (Qianlong nanxun, juan si: Huang Huai jiaoliu)
Untitled
The Grand Canal above the Rialto
Steamboats in the Port of Rouen
元/明 倣錢選 鮮于樞 歸去來辭 卷|Ode on Returning Home
清 佚名 清明上河圖 卷|Spring Festival on the River
Fantastic Landscape
The Kearsarge at Boulogne
清 王原祁 輞川圖 卷|Wangchuan Villa
明/清 佚名 趙伯駒(僞款) 漢宮春曉圖 卷|Spring Morning at the Palace of the Han Emperors
Berg's Ship Yard
The Building of Westminster Bridge
Untitled
River Scene with Boats
Consolation of Ariadne
Up the Hudson
Geese in Flight
The Bridge at Argenteuil
Landscape with Boatman
The Approaching Storm
Volendam Street Scene
Entrance to the Harbor, Le Havre
Returning Sails off a Distant Shores, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
Saint-Mammès, Loing Canal
Xiaomei
Bateaux en Mer, Golfe de Gascogne
Landscape with frozen canal, skaters and an ice-boat
Baoyang Lake
Untitled
An Extensive Wooded Landscape
Untitled
Ferry near Gorinchem
Entrance to a Dutch Port
Seascape Fantasy
A North River Recreation Pier
Low Tide, Riverside Yacht Club
Boats with Mourners and Provisions, Tomb of Neferhotep
The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge
南宋 佚名 泛舟柳塘圖 團扇|Boating by a Willow Bank
清 吳熙載 山水 軸|Landscape
Barges at Pontoise
Untitled
Untitled
The Calm Sea
Evening, New Bedford Harbor
明 傳張路 溪畔漁家圖 軸|Fisherman and family
明/清 佚名 仿夏珪 捕魚圖 團扇|River Landscape with Boatmen
清 佚名 台南地區荷蘭城堡|Forts Zeelandia and Provintia and the City of Tainan
Off Greenland—Whaler Seeking Open Water
Untitled
明 藍瑛 春江漁隱圖 軸|Hermit-Fisherman on a Spring River
明 謝時臣 四時佳興圖 軸 四幅|Landscapes of the Four Seasons
Fantastic Landscape
Commodore Hopkins
The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right
明 史忠 雪景山水圖 軸|Winter landscape with fisherman
Figures on the Beach
Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall
Frequently asked questions
What is Ships & Boats?
Ships & Boats is a motif in painting. Marine painting put the working sea on the wall.
How many Ships & Boats works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 1,368 public-domain Ships & Boats works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Ships & Boats artists?
Key Ships & Boats artists in the collection include Thomas Eakins, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and Thomas Cole.