Famous Ship Paintings
Warships, sailing boats and fishing fleets have been a proud subject of marine painting since the 1600s. Choose a hand-painted oil reproduction of a famous ship painting.
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About Famous Ship Paintings
Marine painting grew up with the Dutch navy and merchant fleet. Willem van de Velde the Younger painted "The Cannon Shot" (around 1680, Rijksmuseum), a warship firing a salute on a calm sea, its sails lit by soft sun. He and his father later worked for the English court and shaped British marine painting for a century.
J. M. W. Turner painted "The Fighting Temeraire" in 1839, showing a veteran of Trafalgar being towed to the breakers by a small steam tug at sunset. It hangs in the National Gallery in London. Théodore Géricault's huge "The Raft of the Medusa" (1818 to 1819, Louvre) turned a real shipwreck into a drama of survival, while Claude Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" (1872) shows small boats in the port of Le Havre through morning haze.
Ship paintings are a classic choice for a study, library, hallway or a house by the water.



































































































