seascape
- A picture of a scene
at sea or a scene prominently including a portion of the sea.
Examples:
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chronologically by artist's birth year
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Jan van Goyen (Netherlandish, 1596-1656).
Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620-1691), Dordrecht: Sunrise, c. 1650, oil on canvas, 40 1/8 x 63 3/8 inches (102 x 161 cm), Frick Collection, NY.
Jan van de Cappelle (Dutch, c. 1624-1679),
Shipping in a Calm at Flushing with a States
General Yacht Firing a Salute, 1649, oil
on wood panel,
27 3/8 x 36 1/4 inches (69.7 x 92.2 cm), J. Paul Getty Museum,
Malibu, CA.
Ludolph Backhuysen (Dutch, 1631-1708), Fishing
Vessels Offshore in a Heavy Sea, 1684, oil
on canvas, 25 1/2 x 38
1/2 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Ludolf Backhuysen, Ships in a Stormy Sea Off a Coast, c. 1695-1700, oil on canvas, 59 3/8 x 91 1/8 inches (150.8 x 231.5 cm), North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh.
Willem van de Velde the Younger (Netherlandish, 1637-1707).
Francisco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793), The Doge on the Bucentaur at the Venice Lido on Ascension Day, oil on canvas, 0.66 x 1.01 m, Louvre.
Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851), Cologne: The Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening, 1826, oil and possibly watercolor on canvas, 66 3/8 x 88 1/4 inches (168.6 x 224.1 cm), Frick Collection, NY. See Romanticism.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Harbor of Dieppe, 1826?, oil on canvas, 68 3/8 x 88 3/4 inches (173.7 x 225.4 cm), Frick Collection, NY.
John Constable (English, 1776-1837), The Sea near Brighton, 1826, oil
on paper laid on card, 17.5 x 23.8
cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Fitz Hugh Lane (American, 1804-1865), Ship Starlight, c. 1860, oil on canvas, 30 x 50 inches (76.2 x 127.0 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH. See Hudson River School and luminism.
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875), Fisherman, black crayon, 0.328 x 0.492 m, Louvre. See Barbizon school, nocturne, and Realism.
Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910), Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily,
1853, oil on canvas,
32 3/4 x 42 1/4 inches (83.2 x 107.3 cm), Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NY. See Romanticism.
James E. Buttersworth (American, 1817-1894), Ship: Valparaiso, c. 1855, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches (60.96 x 91.44 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.
John Kensett (American, 1818-1872). See Hudson River School and luminism.
Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet
(French, 1819-1877), The
Stormy Sea (or The Wave), 1869, oil
on canvas, 3 feet 10 inches
x 5 feet 3 1/2 inches (117 x 160.5 cm), Musée d'Orsay,
Paris. See Realism.
Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet,
Marine: The Waterspout, 1870, oil
on canvas, 27 1/8 x 39
1/4 inches (68.9 x 99.7 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet,
The Sea, 1873, oil
on canvas, 20 x 24 inches
(50.8 x 61 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
James Hamilton (Irish-American, 1819-1878), From Sail to Steam, c. 1870s, oil on canvas, 30 x 50 inches (76.20 x 127.00 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.
Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1882), La Grande Vague, Sète, 1856-59,
depicted: Sète, France, albumen silver print from glass
negative, 33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 inches), Metropolitan
Museum of Art, NY. See photography.
William Bradford (American, 1823-1892), Afternoon on the Labrador Coast, 1878, oil on canvas, 28 x 48 inches (91.12 x 121.92 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Akron, OH.
Frederick Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900), The Icebergs, 1861, oil
on canvas, 64 1/2 x 112
1/2 inches (163.8 x 285.8 cm), Dallas Museum of Art. See Hudson
River School and luminism.
Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910), The Gale, 1883-93, oil
on canvas, Worcester Art
Museum, MA.
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), The Green Wave, 1865, oil
on canvas, 19 1/8 x 25
1/2 inches (48.6 x 64.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Claude Monet, Garden
at Sainte-Adresse, 1867, oil
on canvas, 38 5/8 x 51
1/8 inches (98.1 x 129.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York. See Impressionism.
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), Drifting, 1875, watercolor on paper, collection of John Wilmerding. See realism.
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847-1917),
Marine, no date, oil on wood panel, 8 5/8 x 17 13/16 inches, National Academy of Design, NY.
Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891), The Port of Gravelines, 1890, oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 36 1/2 inches, Indianapolis Museum of Art. See Neo-Impressionism.
Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971), Toilers of the Sea, 1907, oil on canvas, New Britain Museum of Art, CT.
Vija Celmins (Latvian-American, 1938/39-,
Untitled (Ocean), 1970, pencil
on paper, 14 1/8 x 18 7/8 inches
(36 x 48 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, 1948-), Boden Sea, Uttwil, 1993, depicted: Uttwil,
Switzerland, gelatin silver print, 42.3 x 54.2 cm (16 5/8 x 21
5/16 inches), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See Japanese art.
When a seascape includes boats or other vessels, it may be called
a marine. Parallel types of pictures are landscape,
mountainscape, cityscape, moonscape, etc.
Also see genre.
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