Materials & Techniques: canvas / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: boats

1. Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 3/8 x 30 1/4 inches (51.8 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness

Creator:: Isaac Sailmaker, ca. 1633–1721
Date:: between 1707 and 1708
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 53 inches (106.7 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Knock Ninney and Lough Erne from Bellisle, County Fermanagh, Ireland

Creator:: Thomas Roberts, 1748–1778
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.2 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. View of Santa Cruz, Tenerife

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 × 44 1/4 inches (68.6 × 112.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. A Summer Evening (Caernarfon Castle)

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1764 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 x 45 3/4 inches (62.9 x 116.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. The Great Fire of London

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 5/8 × 32 inches (60 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. View on the Thames with Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: between 1743 and 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Lake Nemi

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/4 × 21 1/2 inches (36.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. An English Sloop and a Frigate in a Light Breeze

Creator:: Francis Swaine, 1730–1782
Date:: undated, exhibited between 1762 and 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 x 13 3/8 inches (25.4 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. An English Sloop Becalmed near the Shore

Creator:: Francis Swaine, 1730–1782
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 x 13 3/8 inches (25.4 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. A Seascape with Men-of-War and Small Craft

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Holman, 1760–1790
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 1/4 x 56 inches (97.2 x 142.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. A Battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, Probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
Date:: ca. 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 3/4 x 72 1/2 inches (113.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Ship on Fire at Night

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/2 x 17 inches (31.8 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 43 5/8 x 56 x 3 inches (110.8 x 142.2 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. The Earl of Rochester's House, New Park, Richmond, Surrey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1700 and 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/4 x 83 1/2 inches (107.3 x 212.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Shipping in a Calm

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: between 1700 and 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 12 1/4 inches (40.6 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: ca. 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/4 x 54 inches (61.6 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Coastal Landscape with a Ferry Boat

Creator:: Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois, 1756–1811
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 × 21 1/8 inches (43.2 × 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Cutter Close Hauled in a Fresh Breeze, with Other Shipping

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 66 inches (106.7 x 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. The Gulf of Pozzuoli

Creator:: Gaspar Butler, active ca. 1718–1730
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 65 1/2 inches (49.5 x 166.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. The Frigate 'Surprise' at Anchor off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Creator:: Francis Holman, 1760–1790
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 57 inches (76.2 x 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. A View of Matavai Bay in the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 × 54 inches (91.4 × 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. The Battle of La Hogue

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1778, retouched 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 3/4 x 96 1/4 inches (164.5 x 244.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

25. Launching at Deptford

Creator:: John Cleveley the elder, ca. 1712–1777
Date:: ca. 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 × 72 1/8 inches (106 × 183.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Linen Market, Dominica

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 5/8 × 27 inches (49.8 × 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. English Ships Under Sail in a Very Light Breeze

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. The Coast near Scheveningen with Fishing Pinks on the Shore

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 31 1/4 inches (50.8 x 79.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. Shipping in the English Channel

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 46 3/8 inches (90.2 x 117.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. A Smack Under Sail in a Light Breeze in a River

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: between 1756 and 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (36.8 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. The Thames at Chelsea

Creator:: Thomas Whitcombe, 1763–after 1824
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 7/8 x 60 1/4 inches (78.4 x 153 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. Dover

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1746 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 x 21 1/2 inches (43.2 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. Durham

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 41 inches (50.8 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. An Imaginary View of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 × 36 1/4 inches (71.8 × 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. The Port of London

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 33 7/8 inches (55.2 x 86 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. Fishing Boats in a Calm Sea

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: between 1745 and 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 15/16 x 23 5/16 inches (37.9 x 59.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

Creator:: Thomas Mellish, ca.1748–1782
Date:: between 1761 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/8 x 22 1/2 inches (46 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. British Men-of-War and a Sloop

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: between 1720 and 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 x 35 1/2 inches (71.1 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches (24.4 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

Creator:: Jan Griffier the Elder, ca. 1645–1718
Date:: Between 1700-1710
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches (45.1 x 83.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

42. Thames at Lambeth Palace

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 × 44 1/8 inches (62.2 × 112.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

43. Orleans House, Twickenham

Creator:: Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 32 inches (43.8 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

44. Classical Landscape

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 × 46 1/2 inches (88.9 × 118.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. Classical Landscape with Figures and Animals: Sunset

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 46 1/2 inches (88.9 x 118.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

46. Coastal Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1783 and 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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1. Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor

2. Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness

3. Knock Ninney and Lough Erne from Bellisle, County Fermanagh, Ireland

4. View of Santa Cruz, Tenerife

5. A Summer Evening (Caernarfon Castle)

6. The Great Fire of London

7. Rochester

8. View on the Thames with Westminster Bridge

9. Lake Nemi

10. An English Sloop and a Frigate in a Light Breeze

11. An English Sloop Becalmed near the Shore

12. A Seascape with Men-of-War and Small Craft

13. A Battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, Probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673

14. Ship on Fire at Night

15. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

16. The Earl of Rochester's House, New Park, Richmond, Surrey

17. Shipping in a Calm

18. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

19. Coastal Landscape with a Ferry Boat

20. Cutter Close Hauled in a Fresh Breeze, with Other Shipping

21. The Gulf of Pozzuoli

22. The Frigate 'Surprise' at Anchor off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

23. A View of Matavai Bay in the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]

24. The Battle of La Hogue

25. Launching at Deptford

26. Linen Market, Dominica

27. English Ships Under Sail in a Very Light Breeze

28. The Coast near Scheveningen with Fishing Pinks on the Shore

29. Shipping in the English Channel

30. A Smack Under Sail in a Light Breeze in a River

31. Arches of Westminster Bridge

32. The Thames at Chelsea

33. Dover

34. Durham

35. An Imaginary View of Westminster Bridge

36. The Port of London

37. Fishing Boats in a Calm Sea

38. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

39. British Men-of-War and a Sloop

40. A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort

41. A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

42. Thames at Lambeth Palace

43. Orleans House, Twickenham

44. Classical Landscape

45. Classical Landscape with Figures and Animals: Sunset

46. Coastal Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock