Maritime Art

Aernout Smit (Amsterdam 1641-1710) The Dutch fleet lying in the harbour at Amsterdam, with the flagship approaching signed 'A. Smit' (on the side ...

Attributed to Cornelis van de Velde (London c.1675-1729) An English frigate heaving-to as she approaches an island oil on canvas, in a carved and ...

Circle of Willem van de Velde II (1633-1707) A wijdschip lying at the end of a pier oil on panel 14.1/8 x 12¼ in. (35.8 x 31.1 cm.) View on Christ...

Thomas Luny (St. Ewe [?] 1759-1837 Teignmouth) A Royal Navy frigate firing a salute to announce her arrival at the anchorage signed and dated 'Lun...

John Ward (Hull 1798-1849) A Royal Navy frigate drifting from her anchorage on the Humber; and Shipping becalmed on the Humber (both illustrated) ...

Francis Swaine (London c.1715-1783) A warship saluting a British two-decker as she runs up the Strait of Dover in the Channel; and Shipping in a s...

English School, 19th Century The flagship Royal Sovereign saluting at the Nore pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour with touches of bodycolou...

John Cleveley, Jun. (Deptford 1747-1786 London) Royal Navy frigates and other shipping in a calm off the North Foreland pencil, pen and grey ink a...

Robert Cleveley (Deptford 1747-1809 Dover) H.M.S. Romney capturing the French 44-gun Sybille and three merchantmen in the roads off Mykonos, Greec...

Robert Dodd (1748-1815 London) An English frigate escorting a large international merchant convoy signed and dated 'R Dodd 1813' (lower right) oil...

Francis Swaine (London c.1715-1783) An Admiralty Yacht getting underway from her anchorage signed 'Swaine' (lower left) oil on copper, unframed 8 ...

Lieutenant Thomas Yates, R.N. (c.1760-1796 London) The Royal visit of H.M. King George III and H.M. Queen Charlotte to Plymouth Dockyard, Plymouth...

Thomas Luny (St. Ewe [?] 1759-1837 Teignmouth) View of Southampton from the east across the River Itchen signed and dated 'T. Luny 1829' (lower le...

Thomas Luny (St. Ewe [?] 1759-1837 Teignmouth) A Royal Navy frigate and armed cutter in the Channel off the Devonshire coast signed 'Luny' (lower ...

Richard Paton (London 1717-1791) A Royal Navy sloop, most probably H.M.S. Greyhound, in action with two heavily-armed Spanish galleys signed 'R. P...

Thomas Whitcombe (London c.1752-1824) The East Indiaman Pitt of London in two positions in the Channel off the Needles, Isle of Wight indistinctly...

Robert Salmon (Whitehaven 1775-c.1845) An armed packet drifting along the Thames off Woolwich with Galleons Reach astern of her and the East India...

John Bentham Dinsdale (Yorkshire 1927-2008) H.M.S. Dryad engaging the French frigate Prosperine, 13th June 1796 signed 'John Bentham Dinsdale' (lo...

Timothy Franklin Ross Thompson (Cottingham, Hull b.1951) H.M.S. Orion and a 38-gun frigate off Castle Cornet, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Is...

John Bentham Dinsdale (Yorkshire 1927-2008) The capture of U.S.S. President off New York, 14th January 1815 signed and dated 'John Bentham-Dinsdal...

Thomas Buttersworth, Sen. (Isle of Wight 1768-1842 London) The departure of the British fleet from the Tagus to engage the Franco-Spanish fleet at...

Mark Richard Myers, P.R.S.M.A. (San Mateo, California b.1945) Hawke's fleet at Spithead in 'The Year of Victories', 1759 signed '- Mark Myers -' (...

Thomas Luny (St. Ewe [?] 1759-1837 Teignmouth) The height of the action on the 'Glorious First of June', 1794 signed and dated 'Luny 1819' (lower ...

Ebenezer Colls (1812-1887) The destruction of the Droits de l'Homme, 13th January 1797 signed 'E Colls' (lower left) oil on canvas, within an over...

Thomas Buttersworth, Sen. (Isle of Wight 1768-1842 London) Trafalgar, 21st October 1805: H.M.S. Victory breaking through the enemy line signed 'T ...

Thomas Luny (St. Ewe [?] 1759-1837 Teignmouth) The battle of Copenhagen, 2nd April 1801 signed and dated 'Luny 1819' (lower left) oil on canvas 36...

Philip John Ouless (St. Helier 1817-1885) The Royal Yacht Fairy, with Queen Victoria on board, threading her way through ships of the fleet anchor...

Nicholas Matthew Condy (Plymouth 1815-1851) A '74' emerging from Plymouth Sound oil on canvas 15½ x 24 in. (39.4 x 61 cm.) View on Christie's.com ...

Charles Augustus Mornewick (fl.1826-1858) H.M.S. San Fiorenzo engaging the French frigate Piémontaise off Ceylon, 6th - 8th March 1808 signed and ...

George Willem Opdenhoff (Fulda, Prussia 1807-1873 The Hague) Unloading the day's catch off the coast of the Low Countries signed 'G.W. Opdenhoff' ...

Petrus Paulus Schiedges, the Elder (The Hague 1813-1876) A steamer running inshore off the Low Countries signed and dated 'Schiedges 60' (lower le...

Thomas Buttersworth, Sen. (Isle of Wight 1768-1842 London) The arrival of H.M. King George IV in the Firth of Forth, on 14th August 1822, aboard H...

Attributed to Charles Henry Seaforth (Naples [?] 1801-after 1853) H.M.S. Shannon enforcing International Law between the Union gunboat Tuscarora a...

Derek George Montague Gardner, R.S.M.A. (Gerrards Cross 1914-2007) A fierce engagement between the H.M.S. Penguin and the French corvette Oiseau o...

Thomas Luny (St. Ewe [?] 1759-1837 Teignmouth) An East Indiamen lying at anchor off the island of St. Helena with other East Indiamen getting unde...

Joseph Cartwright (Dawlish 1789-1829 London) A sixth rate, thought to be H.M.S. Talbot, 28-guns, lying on a mooring in Grand Harbour, Valetta, Mal...

John Lynn (fl.1828-1838) A racing cutter of the Royal Yacht Squadron beating to windward offshore signed and dated 'J Lynn/1835' (lower left) oil ...

Charles Henry Seaforth (Naples [?] 1801-after 1853) A Royal Navy three-decker lying in the anchorage at Spithead with a cutter yacht heading into ...

Nicholas Matthew Condy (Plymouth 1818-1851) A racing schooner of the Royal Yacht Squadron, thought to be Camilla, heeling in the breeze in the Cha...

Thomas Sewell Robins (c.1809-1880 London) A ship-of-the-line getting underway from her anchorage with fishermen observing her as she departs penci...

Thomas Sewell Robins (c.1809-1880 London) Fishermen on a breakwater before a lighthouse with boats heading out to the fishing grounds signed with ...

Thomas Sewell Robins (c.1809-1880 London) A Royal Navy frigate preparing to get underway from her anchorage at Spithead signed and dated 'T.S. ROB...

Thomas Sewell Robins (c.1809-1880 London) East Greenwich signed, inscribed and dated 'East Greenwich/T S ROBINS/79' (lower left) pencil and waterc...

Montague Dawson, F.R.S.A., R.S.M.A. (Chiswick 1895-1973 Midhurst) An armed cutter chasing a smuggler signed 'MONTAGUE DAWSON.' (lower right) oil o...

Montague Dawson, F.R.S.A., R.S.M.A. (Chiswick 1895-1973 Midhurst) The rising wind: On deck aboard the Ethopian [?] signed 'MONTAGUE DAWSON' (lower...

Montague Dawson, F.R.S.A., R.S.M.A. (Chiswick 1895-1973 Midhurst) The American clipper Gem of the Ocean belting across the ocean in a steady breez...

Jack Lorimer Gray (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1927-1981 West Palm Beach) A Grand Banks schooner with dories stacked amidships and fishermen working on t...

Jack Lorimer Gray (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1927-1981 West Palm Beach) The fog warning signed 'JACK L. GRAY -...' (lower left) oil on canvas 30 x 50 i...

Jack Lorimer Gray (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1927-1981 West Palm Beach) Line fishing from schooners on the Grand Banks signed 'JACK L. GRAY' (lower lef...

Jack Lorimer Gray (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1927-1981 West Palm Beach) The Canadian fishing schooner Delawana on the Grand Banks of the North Atlantic...

Jack Lorimer Gray (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1927-1981 West Palm Beach) A fishing schooner lying in a North American harbour in the snow signed 'JACK L...

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1850-1921 Hoboken, New Jersey) The Danish steamship Oscar II at sea signed and dated 'A. JACOBSEN 1911...

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1850-1921 Hoboken, New Jersey) The U.S.S. Constitution in full sail signed and dated 'ANTONIO JACOBSEN...

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1850-1921 Hoboken, New Jersey) The American liner St. Louis outward-bound oil on canvas 22 x 36 in. (5...

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1850-1921 Hoboken, New Jersey) The Atlantic Transport Line's Mohawk arriving off New York and under es...

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Copenhagen 1850-1921 Hoboken, New Jersey) The New York Yacht Club's steam yacht Vanadis at sea signed, inscribed ...

James Gale Tyler (Oswego, New York 1855-1931 Pelham Manor, New York) Overdue: An American paddle tug towing in a storm-damaged steamer signed 'JAM...

James Gale Tyler (Oswego, New York 1855-1931 Pelham Manor, New York) The opening engagement of the Spanish-American War (1898): The flagship of Ad...

Liverpool School, 19th Century An American merchantman signalling for a pilot of the North Wales coast as she heads into Liverpool oil on canvas 2...

William Clark (Greenock 1803-1883) The Eliza Stewart under reduced sail in the Channel off the Eddystone lighthouse signed and dated 'Wm. Clark/18...