18th century sailing ships in paintings, art

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Isaac Sailmaker Englische Kriegsschiffe

Isaac Sailmaker Englische Kriegsschiffe

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Philip James de Loutherbourg - La Montagne

Philip James de Loutherbourg - La Montagne

The ship was ordered as États de Bourgogne and was launched at Brest in 1790. Like many French ships of the line during the Revolutionary period, she was renamed several times, becoming „Côte d'Or“ in January 1... More

Lambert Scott 1732 - Public domain city architecture painting

Lambert Scott 1732 - Public domain city architecture painting

Painting of the East India Company's settlement in Bombay Public domain photograph of 18th-century portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Luca Carlevarijs 001 -  The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

Luca Carlevarijs 001 - The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

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Caspar David Friedrich 044 -  The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

Caspar David Friedrich 044 - The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painti...

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Francesco Guardi 046 -  The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

Francesco Guardi 046 - The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

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Jacob Philipp Hackert 005 -  The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Painting

Jacob Philipp Hackert 005 - The Yorck Project Masterpieces of Paintin...

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Loutherbourg - battle of the nile

Loutherbourg - battle of the nile

Painting of the Battle of the Nile, 1798 Public domain photograph of 18th-century portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Attributed to Thomas Buttersworth - A Cutter in a swell

Attributed to Thomas Buttersworth - A Cutter in a swell

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Dominic Serres - A group of twenty-two ship studies

Dominic Serres - A group of twenty-two ship studies

A group of twenty-two ship studies, marine and coastal views, including several titled Italian scenes

Dominic Serres - The desperate plight of the Monmouth at the close of the action with three French ships off Providien, Ceylon, on 12th April 1782

Dominic Serres - The desperate plight of the Monmouth at the close of ...

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Follower of Thomas Buttersworth - A fishing boat under dark skies

Follower of Thomas Buttersworth - A fishing boat under dark skies

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H.M.S. Mars and the French '74 Hercule off Brest, 21st April 1798

H.M.S. Mars and the French '74 Hercule off Brest, 21st April 1798

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John Cleveley the Elder - Admiral Byng's fleet getting underway from Spithead

John Cleveley the Elder - Admiral Byng's fleet getting underway from S...

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John Cleveley the Elder - Plymouth

John Cleveley the Elder - Plymouth

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John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 1 of 4)

John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 1 of 4)

Views of the South Seas, a set of four. 1. View of Huaheine, one of the Society Islands; 2. View of Morea, one of the Friendly Islands; 3. View of Charlotte Sound in New Zealand (sic, actually a view in Matava... More

John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 2 of 4)

John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 2 of 4)

Views of the South Seas, a set of four. 1. View of Huaheine, one of the Society Islands; 2. View of Morea, one of the Friendly Islands; 3. View of Charlotte Sound in New Zealand (sic, actually a view in Matava... More

John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 3 of 4)

John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 3 of 4)

Views of the South Seas, a set of four. 1. View of Huaheine, one of the Society Islands; 2. View of Morea, one of the Friendly Islands; 3. View of Charlotte Sound in New Zealand (sic, actually a view in Matava... More

John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 4 of 4)

John Cleveley the Younger, Views of the South Seas (No. 4 of 4)

Views of the South Seas, a set of four. 1. View of Huaheine, one of the Society Islands; 2. View of Morea, one of the Friendly Islands; 3. View of Charlotte Sound in New Zealand (sic, actually a view in Matavai... More

John Ward of Hull - Warships on a calm sea

John Ward of Hull - Warships on a calm sea

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John Thomas Serres - A view of the Old Castle at Leghorn

John Thomas Serres - A view of the Old Castle at Leghorn

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John Thomas Serres - The wreck of the H.M.S. Deal Castle off Puerto Rico, in the hurricane of 1780 with the crew escaping on a raft

John Thomas Serres - The wreck of the H.M.S. Deal Castle off Puerto Ri...

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John Thomas Serres - The wreck of the H.M.S. Deal Castle

John Thomas Serres - The wreck of the H.M.S. Deal Castle

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Attributed to Thomas Buttersworth - A Squadron of the fleet bearing down the Channel off the south coast of England towards an on-coming despatch cutter

Attributed to Thomas Buttersworth - A Squadron of the fleet bearing do...

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Thomas Buttersworth - A British frigate bowling down the Channel on a breezy day past the Eddystone lighthouse

Thomas Buttersworth - A British frigate bowling down the Channel on a ...

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Thomas Buttersworth - A British frigate hove-to with her jollyboat preparing to pluck a man from the sea

Thomas Buttersworth - A British frigate hove-to with her jollyboat pre...

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Thomas Buttersworth - A large ship-of-the-line heading into Plymouth Sound as an outward bound frigate is passing the breakwater

Thomas Buttersworth - A large ship-of-the-line heading into Plymouth S...

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Thomas Buttersworth - A ship-of-the-line off Cadiz

Thomas Buttersworth - A ship-of-the-line off Cadiz

A ship-of-the-line off Cadiz, probably the flagship of the Blockading Fleet, with an armed cutter off her port beam

Thomas Buttersworth - A topsail schooner in a heavy swell

Thomas Buttersworth - A topsail schooner in a heavy swell

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Thomas Buttersworth - A large First Rate, said to be H.M.S. 'Victory', lying off the mouth of the Tagus

Thomas Buttersworth - A large First Rate, said to be H.M.S. 'Victory',...

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Thomas Buttersworth - H.M.S. 'Victory' in full sail and in a squall (1)

Thomas Buttersworth - H.M.S. 'Victory' in full sail and in a squall (1...

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Thomas Buttersworth - H.M.S. 'Victory' in full sail and in a squall (2)

Thomas Buttersworth - H.M.S. 'Victory' in full sail and in a squall (2...

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William Anderson - Merchant ships and Indiamen lying off the Isle of Dogs...etc

William Anderson - Merchant ships and Indiamen lying off the Isle of D...

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The Capture of Port Louis, Cuba, 8 March 1748 RMG BHC0372

The Capture of Port Louis, Cuba, 8 March 1748 RMG BHC0372

The Capture of Port Louis, Cuba, 8 March 1748 In February 1748 Rear-Admiral Charles Knowles left Port Royal, Jamaica, with eight ships of the line to make an attack on Santiago de Cuba. Delayed by contrary win... More

Joseph Vernet - Vernet-port-Bayonne

Joseph Vernet - Vernet-port-Bayonne

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Claude-Joseph Verne - L'entrée du port de Marseille (1754)

Claude-Joseph Verne - L'entrée du port de Marseille (1754)

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Joseph Vernet - Vernet-entre-port-Marseille

Joseph Vernet - Vernet-entre-port-Marseille

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Marine et paysage sur les bords de la Méditerranée

Marine et paysage sur les bords de la Méditerranée

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Ludolf Bakhuizen - Dutch Vessels on the Sea at Amsterdam - WGA01133

Ludolf Bakhuizen - Dutch Vessels on the Sea at Amsterdam - WGA01133

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Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil-Jean-Baptiste Lefebre mg 8461

Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil-Jean-Baptiste Lefebre mg 8461

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Jacques Duval d'Epémesnil-Jean-Baptiste Lefebre mg 8462

Jacques Duval d'Epémesnil-Jean-Baptiste Lefebre mg 8462

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Sir Peter Parker's Attack Against Fort Moultrie

Sir Peter Parker's Attack Against Fort Moultrie

"Sir Peter Parker's Attack Against Fort Moultrie," oil on canvas. Courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia.

A First-Rate (HMS Royal William)

A First-Rate (HMS Royal William)

A First-Rate An unfinished composition closely relating to a painting of the 'Royal Sovereign' by Willem van de Velde the Younger (BHC3614), which is thought to commemorate an event at Spithead on 4 June 1702 ... More

A First-Rate RMG BHC0983, British naval battle painting

A First-Rate RMG BHC0983, British naval battle painting

A First-Rate An unfinished composition closely relating to a painting of the 'Royal Sovereign' by Willem van de Velde the Younger (BHC3614), which is thought to commemorate an event at Spithead on 4 June 1702 ... More

Abraham Storck - Dutch Shipping in an Estuary

Abraham Storck - Dutch Shipping in an Estuary

Dutch shipping in an astuary, Artist: Abraham Storck Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abraham Storck - Peter the Great inspecting a ship at Amsterdam

Abraham Storck - Peter the Great inspecting a ship at Amsterdam

Peter the Great inspecting a ship at Amsterdam .*oil on canvas .*83.8 x 109.2 cm .*ca 1700

Abraham Storck - Shipping off Amsterdam

Abraham Storck - Shipping off Amsterdam

Shipping off Amsterdam by Abraham Storck Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Admiral Duncan Receiving the Sword of the Dutch Admiral de Winter at the Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797 RMG BHC0506

Admiral Duncan Receiving the Sword of the Dutch Admiral de Winter at t...

An interpretation of Admiral Duncan receiving the surrender of the Dutch Admiral de Winter, following the Battle of Camperdown, painted 30 years after the event. Admiral Duncan countered the threat of French i... More

Bataille de Sainte Lucie entre d'Estaing et Barrington 1778 - BHC0422,

Bataille de Sainte Lucie entre d'Estaing et Barrington 1778 - BHC0422,

Barrington's Action at St Lucia, 15 December 1778 When France allied herself with the American rebels in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, the naval commander-in-chief in the West Indies, Rear-Admir... More

Beginning of Knowles' action off Havana, 1 October 1748 RMG BHC0373

Beginning of Knowles' action off Havana, 1 October 1748 RMG BHC0373

Beginning of Knowles' action off Havana, 1 October 1748 When Rear-Admiral Charles Knowles was cruising in search of a Spanish treasure fleet off Havana in 1748, he heard of a squadron of seven Spanish men of w... More

Johann Baptiste Bouttats - A Shipping Scene in the Lower Thames, about 1720

Johann Baptiste Bouttats - A Shipping Scene in the Lower Thames, about...

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Johann Baptiste Bouttats - The Arrival of Charles II at The Hague, 15 May 1660

Johann Baptiste Bouttats - The Arrival of Charles II at The Hague, 15 ...

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Capture of Fort Louis, Martinique, 1794

Capture of Fort Louis, Martinique, 1794

On 5th February 1794, Sir John Jervis and Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, arrived at Martinique and by 20th March the whole island, with the exception of Fort Bourbon and Fort Royal, had submitted. Jervis... More

Coast scene with British man of war by Vernet

Coast scene with British man of war by Vernet

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Dominic Serres - Dominic Serres - Barrington's action at St Lucia 1778 - ZBA2204

Dominic Serres - Dominic Serres - Barrington's action at St Lucia 1778...

This shows Admiral Samuel Barrington's squadron at anchor across the Grand Cul de Sac on the west side of St Lucia, covering his invasion transports within it, on the day following his successful defence of the... More

East Indiamen in a Gale - Public domain  painting

East Indiamen in a Gale - Public domain painting

This is a portrait of an East Indiaman in the foreground, in port-quarter view. The ship in the distance to the left approaches in starboard-bow view, heeling on the port tack under fore and main-course. The w... More

End of Knowles' action off Havana, 1 October 1748 RMG BHC0374

End of Knowles' action off Havana, 1 October 1748 RMG BHC0374

When Rear-Admiral Charles Knowles was cruising in search of a Spanish treasure fleet off Havana in 1748, he heard of a squadron of seven Spanish men of war nearby. He met them on 1 October and a brisk action e... More

End of Knowles' action off Havana, 1 October 1748

End of Knowles' action off Havana, 1 October 1748

When Rear-Admiral Charles Knowles was cruising in search of a Spanish treasure fleet off Havana in 1748, he heard of a squadron of seven Spanish men of war nearby. He met them on 1 October and a brisk action e... More

Greenwich from the Isle of Dogs

Greenwich from the Isle of Dogs

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HMS 'Resolution' and 'Discovery' in Tahiti RMG L9757

HMS 'Resolution' and 'Discovery' in Tahiti RMG L9757

View of Whitley Bay, Northumberland Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Cleveley the Elder - A Sixth-Rate on the Stocks

John Cleveley the Elder - A Sixth-Rate on the Stocks

The exact location of the shipyard in this painting is unclear but it may be on the south bank of the Thames at Rotherhithe. The ship in the foreground ready for launching is a 24-gun sloop of war, much in use ... More

John Cleveley the Elder - Launch of a Fourth-Rate on the River Orwell

John Cleveley the Elder - Launch of a Fourth-Rate on the River Orwell

Launch of a Fourth-Rate on the River Orwell Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Cleveley the Elder - The East Indiaman 'Princess Royal'

John Cleveley the Elder - The East Indiaman 'Princess Royal'

The East Indiaman ‚Princess Royal‘ Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Cleveley the younger (1747-1786) (style of) - HMS 'Resolution' and 'Discovery' in Tahiti - BHC1939 - Royal Museums Greenwich

John Cleveley the younger (1747-1786) (style of) - HMS 'Resolution' an...

Cleveley the younger, John; HMS 'Resolution' and 'Discovery' in Tahiti; National Maritime Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/hms-resolution-and-discovery-in-tahiti-173297

Sir Godfrey Kneller - John Norris coat of arms

Sir Godfrey Kneller - John Norris coat of arms

Portrait of John Norris Public domain photograph of 18th-century male portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Knowles Action - Public domain map engraving

Knowles Action - Public domain map engraving

Knowles's Action off Havana (Revised April 2013) In February 1748 Rear-Admiral Charles Knowles left Port Royal, Jamaica, with eight ships of the line, to make an attack on Santiago de Cuba. Delayed by contrary... More

Dominic Serres - Men-of-War at Plymouth RMG BHC1066

Dominic Serres - Men-of-War at Plymouth RMG BHC1066

Men-of-War at Plymouth This view shows a squadron commanded by a Vice-Admiral of the Red coming down the Hamoaze, outward bound from Plymouth. The view is from near Torpoint, on the Cornwall side, looking nort... More

Nicholas Pocock - The Frigate 'Triton'

Nicholas Pocock - The Frigate 'Triton'

This ship's portrait was painted for Vice-Admiral James Gambier, Lord Gambier. He was a Lord of the Admiralty at the time it was painted in 1797 and was the designer of the fifth-rate frigate, 'Triton', built ... More

Rendicion de navio san jose, British naval battle painting

Rendicion de navio san jose, British naval battle painting

Surrender of the San Josef in the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797). Español: Rendición del navío San José durante la Batalla del Cabo de San Vicente.

Samuel Scott - A Danish Timber Bark Getting Under Way

Samuel Scott - A Danish Timber Bark Getting Under Way

A ship-rigged cat-bark is shown on the right, with her anchors raised and making sail in very calm conditions. She is a Danish trading vessel flying their flag from the stern. Such ships were immensely strong ... More

Joseph Vernet - Seashore-vernet

Joseph Vernet - Seashore-vernet

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Shipping in an Estuary van Beecq

Shipping in an Estuary van Beecq

(c) National Maritime Museum; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St Albans Deptford - Public domain  drawing

St Albans Deptford - Public domain drawing

The painting shows the 'St Albans', 60 guns man-of-war built at the Royal Dockyard, Deptford in 1747. It is depicted being floated out of her building dock, flying the Admiralty flag, the Royal Standard, Union ... More

Joseph Vernet - Storm sh-vernet

Joseph Vernet - Storm sh-vernet

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Studio of Ludolf Bakhuizen - A Dutch Yacht Before the Wind in a Harbour

Studio of Ludolf Bakhuizen - A Dutch Yacht Before the Wind in a Harbou...

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The English Ship 'Royal Sovereign' With a Royal Yacht in a Light Air

The English Ship 'Royal Sovereign' With a Royal Yacht in a Light Air

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The royal yacht 'Royal Escape'

The royal yacht 'Royal Escape'

The Royal Escape Close-Hauled in a Breeze. The royal yacht Royal Escape appears in the right foreground, seen from before the starboard beam. She flies a red ensign, jack and the common pendant of a man-of-wa... More

Willem van de Velde de Jonge - Een mediterraan Brigantine Drifting Onto een rotsachtige kust in een storm

Willem van de Velde de Jonge - Een mediterraan Brigantine Drifting Ont...

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John Cleveley the Elder - The Frigate H.M.S. Pallas in three postions (1769)

John Cleveley the Elder - The Frigate H.M.S. Pallas in three postions ...

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John Cleveley the Elder - The 'Peregrine' in two positions off the coast

John Cleveley the Elder - The 'Peregrine' in two positions off the coa...

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