Period: 18th century / Genre: marine art / Work Type: painting

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. Action off the Cape of Good Hope

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches (66.7 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 71 inches (101.6 x 180.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Shipping off Dover

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 53 inches (67.3 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. An English Two-Decker Lying Hove to, with Other Ships and Vessels in a Fresh Breeze

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 16 x 25 inches (40.6 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1780 to 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Fishery

Creator:: Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Action off the Cape of Good Hope

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches (66.7 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. 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

11. Shipping in a Choppy Sea

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 55 x 45 1/2 inches (139.7 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Captain William Locker

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 12 inches (36.8 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

Creator:: Thomas Whitcombe, 1763–after 1824
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (43.8 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. 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

18. Westminster from Lambeth, with the Ceremonial Barge of the Ironmongers' Company

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 1/4 x 59 1/4 inches (79.4 x 150.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. English Ships Running before a Gale

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: before 1759
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

20. 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

21. 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

22. Windsor Castle from the Buckinghamshire Bank

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 37 x 68 inches (94 x 172.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. 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

24. Royal Yacht Becalmed at Anchor

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: between 1710 and 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/8 x 45 1/2 inches (76.5 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. 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

26. 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

27. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: between 1747 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 22 inches (36.8 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. An Indiaman and a Two Decker Hove to, Said to be Thomas Dumar, Esq. in H.M. Ship 'Portland' Delivering the Leeward Island Convoy, in 1776

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1796
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

32. A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 3/8 × 57 inches (84.8 × 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. An English Royal Yacht Standing Offshore in a Calm

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 37 7/8 inches (70.5 × 96.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
On View:: Not on view

34. 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

35. 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

36. The Earl of Sandwich Refusing to Abandon His Ship During the Battle of Solebay

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 88 x 73 inches (223.5 x 185.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. W. Hutton and J. S. Cogswell
On View:: Not on view