Sails, Cells (High Seas)

During his first two decades as a painter, Liebermann focused almost exclusively on themes concerned with the life and labor of farmers and fishermen. After Flax Barn of 1887 (Alte...

In the 1650s Ruysdael produced a series of small-format, vertical, marine views in which he experimented with light and atmospheric effects on large areas of water and sky. Art his...

“The Core,” Captain P. Nordfeldt The ship was about approx. 300 tonnes and built in 1879 on the Swedish Royal Bank Steamship commander C. Sylván was a disponent at the Helsborg shi...

In December 1890Winslow Homer wrote to his brother Charles, “I have got a fine picture called The Distress Signal a scene in mid ocean.” The painter was referring to the work in th...

Willem van de Velde II was one of the leading 17th-century Dutch marine painters. Trained by his father, Willem van de Velde I, with whom he later worked, he continued his studies ...

Jan Brueghel belonged to a dynasty of painters whose first outstanding member was Pieter Bruegel, Jan’s father, who died when he was a child. According to Karel van Mander, Jan tra...

Monochrome sketches: pencil drawing of castle(?) at upper right with two panoramic seascapes in watercolour below - various ships, without sails, moored in calm water; row boats an...