Boats on the Beach at L'Estaque

From left: Hjalmar Olsson and Gunnar Nestling, brother of Hjalmar and David Olsson, on the construction of the Ljungström boat Zinganee, built in a copy at Arendals Båtlap. The bo...

Unlike the Hudson River artists who, encouraged by the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the picturesque, centred on striking nature settings full of cataracts and large moun...

Eugène Boudin’s exceptional ability to observe and record the fleeting effects of nature earned him a place as a precursor of the Impressionists. Though in palette and technique he...

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...

A seascape with two boys sitting on a beach in the foreground. There are several rowing boats on the beach and a winch. The sea is calm and undetailed and there is on sail boat out...

The festival of the Bucintoro was the subject of extensive commentaries by travellers and visitors who witnessed it. It was depicted over the course of the years by artists such as...

Outside the walls of a small riverside town, a procession of people, some with packaged goods, moves along the quay towards the boats in the right middle ground of the painting. Bo...