Classic Sailing Ships

Paintings of historic sailing ships navigating turbulent seas, featuring artistic renditions of maritime life.

Civil War, Confederate Blockade Runner and Union Man-O-War 1861 Artist Unknown
Civil War, Confederate Blockade Runner and Union Man-O-War 1861 Artist Unknown
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Sailing boats, a two -master and rowing boat on the water, 1830 - 1860 Page 38 Recto from a sketchbook with 46 sheets. paper. pencil Page 38 Recto from a sketchbook with 46 sheets. paper. pencil
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The Launching of HMS Trafalgar at Chatham 26 July 1820. C. John M. Whichelo (1784-1865). Dated 1836. Pencil and watercolour.
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This watercolor shows the ship's warehouse Jarramas at sea from port front .. This watercolor shows the ship's warehouse Jarramas at sea from port front.
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The Harbour. William Lee Hankey (1869-1952). Oil on canvas. 59.1 x 89.5cm
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Calm water with in the foreground a fisherman in his barge, Albertus van Beest, 1851 drawing paper. pencil sailing-ship, sailing-boat
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Shanghai harbour c1875. From a watercolour. Shanghai was one of the Treaty Ports established in 1842 for British traders after China's defeat in the first Opium War (1839-1842). One of the vessels anchored in the habrour is a paddle steamer.
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On a Sailing Ship 1818-1819 Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840 German) Oil on canvas State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
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Fishing boat in the storm. Lucus, L. (fl. XIX w.), painter
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Ship sailing along a rocky coast , Seas, Coastlines, Sailing ships
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Barges on a River. Date/Period: 1826. Painting. Oil on millboard. Height: 251 mm (9.88 in); Width: 352 mm (13.85 in). Author: Richard Parkes Bonington.
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"Hohenzollern", His Majesty the German Emperor's yacht in Venice, 1894, illustration from the Yearbook of Modern Art in Master Woodcuts, 1900, Venedig, Venice, Venedig, Italy, Europe
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International yacht race between Puritan & Genesta (rounding the buoy), 1886
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Ship off the Coast, Jacob Gerritz. Loef, 1620 - 1670
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1700S 1780S George Washington Standing In Barge Crossing Hudson River Arriving New York City April 1789 Inauguration
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Dungiyah: A broad-beamed flat-bottomed Arabian coaster trading between the Red Sea, Gulf of Persia, and the Malabar coast. From 'The Sailor's Word-Book' (London, 1867).
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Under full sail over the sunlit water at Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J. , Seas, Boats, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Three strains for anchor when coming heavy weather. .
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Arrival of the Lancia Reale to the Columbus festival in Genoa, Mariani, Pompeo (1857-1927)
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Defender to windward of Valkyrie III during the first race for the America's Cup, September 7th 1895'. Oil on canvas, 30' x 40', 1998. Private collection.Both yachts were evenly matched for the first ho
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Ship in a Storm Ivan Konstantinovic Ivazovsky (1817-1900 Russian) Tomsk Regional Art Museum
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Frigate by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, oil on canvas, 1853, 1817-1900, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Central Navy Museum, 220x331
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Imigration to America. Emigrants being rowed out to the ship that will carry them across the Atlantic. Vollemon (19th century).
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Sailing luggers (Herring fleet) off the Norfolk Coast near Great Yarmouth. Date: circa 1904
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'The Benjamin Constant Training Cruiser and the dreadnought Minas Geraes in Rio Harbour', 1914. Artist: Unknown.
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Ships by Mikhail Mikhailovich Semyonov, oil on canvas , 1949, 1899-, Russia, St. Petersburg , State Central Navy Museum, 59x95
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History of Spain. Gijon, Asturias. View of the port. Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). The Spanish and American Illustration (La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana), 1884.
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Boat Building on the Teign, Samuel Lucas, 1805-1870, British, undated, Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 9 3/8 × 18 1/8 inches (23.8 × 46 cm), boat, dock, landscape, marine art, ship, ship building yards, shores (landforms), Teign
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On The High Seas James Logan (19th. C. British)
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Ship, Artist Unknown
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A galleon sailing ship, populated entirely by chubby-cheeked children sets off across the waves, bound for fairyland. Date: 1909
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The red-sailed ship of the Flying Dutchman Date: First performed 1843
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Hauling the Nets, Mesdag, Hendrik Willem (1831-1915/Dutch)
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Marine transportation - English galleon Mayflower, 17th century. Color illustration
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The Departure of a Dignitary from Middelburg.The warship De Zeehondt is being towed to sea from the harbour of Middelburg by four muscular draughthorses. The identity of the departing person who is drawing so much attention from a multitude of lowandhigh-ranking people is unknown. However, it must have been someone of standing, for even StadtholderMaurices yacht is present; it fires a salute.
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The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies.The Dutch first reached the Indonesian archipelago in 1596. But above all it was the second attempt, in 1598, that was a commercial triumph. As stated in the inscription on the frame, trade was planted there’ at that time. The first step towards the success of the future VOC had been taken. It was a truly joyous occasion when the fully laden ships dropped anchor again in Amsterdam’s harbour in 1599.
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Boat Approaching a Whale, Hunting
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Floating a fishing boat - Gregor von Bochmann, 1888
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Sailing , Sailboats, Seas, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Ships Through the Ages: Junk , Sailing ships
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The Crossing. George Wright (fl.1881-92). Oil on panel. 18 x 25.3cm
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Azelio Bacchetta (1870-1907). Malaga Port. Watercolour, 28.5x34.4 cm.
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Night seascape , Sailboats, Bodies of water, Sailboat racing, Steamboats, Moonlight. Louis Prang & Company Collection
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Le Bateau de Sauvetage a Audierne Henry Moret (1856-1913/French)
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The Great Ocean Yacht Race - 1866
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Cristopher Wood, A Fishing Boat in Dieppe Harbour, 1929, oil paint on canvas, Tate Britain, National Gallery of British Art, London, England.
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Excursion pier by Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926, artist 1908. Italy, Venice. As described in Wuerth, Gray day on the Canal, excursion pier in foreground, sail boats and large steamer on opposite side, Customs House and part of Salute to right. Colours, Gray, green, black, rose, brown, red, yellow, pink and white, on bluish Gray paper.
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Launching the lifeboat , Ships, Lifeboats, Seas, Horses, Carts & wagons. Louis Prang & Company Collection
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Pictures of Dutch Ship, Japanese Prints - Yokohama Namban - Foreigners
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Four crewmembers of the foundering fishing vessel West Head were rescued by the Coast Guard Cutter Dependable, which was on homeland security patrol. The Dependable is a 210-foot medium endurance cutter homeported in Cape May, N. J. In an average year, the Coast Guard responds to 39,700 search and rescue cases and saves 4,300 lives. US Coast Guard Art Program 2004 Collection, Ob ID # 200415, "Dependable rescues fishermen while on security patrol," Mary McGlynn, acrylic
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Ships Through the Ages: The 'Dreadnought,' The Clipper Ship - 'Flying Cloud,' Old New Bedford Whaler , Sailing ships, McKay, Donald, 1810-1880, Flying Cloud Clipper-ship
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Yachts from the port of Yarmouth, County of Norfolk, England, Historical, Digitally Restored Reproduction of a Template from the 19th Century, Record Date Not Stated
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fine arts, Agasse, Jacaques-Laurent, (1767 - 1849), painting, ""Landing, Westminster bridge"", 1818, oil on canvas, 35 cm x 53,5 cm, Oskar Reinhart museum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Europe, 19th century, boat, leaving, river, Thames, London, Great Britain,
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Ships Riding on the Seine at Rouen, Claude Monet, 1872-1873, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA, North America
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The rescue , Boats, Rowing, Seas. Louis Prang & Company Collection
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Ship's Boat Attacking a Whale, Hunting
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Rolling stock over rivers; Suchodolski, January (1797-1875); 1871 (1871-00-00-1871-00-00);gift (provenance)
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Arai, Toshū no dzu Arai Station 32, Ferry boat. And, Hiroshige, 1797-1858. Prints. 1832. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Travel , Japan, Postal service , Japan, Tokaido (Japan), Mountains, Boats, Ferries, Passengers, Rowers, Arai-cho (Shizuoka-ken, Japan)
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English warship. 13th century. Engraving. Color.
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'Whaling in the Antarctic'. Creator: Keith Henderson.
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Street with Mail Coaches by Orlowski, Alexander Osipovich (1777-1832) National Art Museum of Belorussian Republik, Minsk 1829 Russia Oil on canvas Painting Landscape,Genre
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An elder lifeboatman lifts his hammer to strike out the holding peg to launch the Constantinople lifeboat and its team of lifeboatmen down a wooden ramp. The boat is called the 'Shellu'. Date: circa 1910