Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Signal of Distress 1890–1896 Oil on canvas, 62 x 98 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Following a period spent on the English North Coast, Winslow Homer returned to the United States and settled on the equally cold and inhospitable…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Bacco e Arianna (Bacchus and Ariadne) 1520–1523 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 191 cm National Gallery, London Detail of the Crown Constellation. Detail of Ariadne and Theseus‘s ship. Detail of Bacchus. Detail of Pan. Detail of Bacchante. Detail of…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) La Découverte des Amériques par Christophe Colomb (The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus) 1958–1959 Oil on canvas, 410 x 284 cm Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg This work is an ambitious homage to Dalí’s Spain. It combines Spanish…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Ship 1875 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 97.8 cm Tate Britain, London Hunt began this painting after a voyage to the East with his second wife, Edith. Unusually, he painted it largely from memory, rather than from…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Havre c.1883–1887 Oil on wood panel, 27.1 x 21 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Le Havre (France)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Storm 1840–1845 Oil on canvas, 54.6 × 77 × 7.4 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This seascape of 1840–45 and its companion picture, ‘The morning after the storm’, were apparently inspired by the great storm of 21…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The morning after the storm c.1840–1845 Oil on canvas, 32.6 x 54.4 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This seascape of 1840–45 and its companion picture, ‘The Storm‘, were apparently inspired by the great storm of 21…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Coucher de soleil, le Port de Rouen, bateaux à vapeur (Sunset, the Port of Rouen, Steamboats) 1898 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.1 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff In 1884 Pissarro moved to Eragny, east of Rouen. This composition…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Bassin de Londres (The Pool of London) 1871 Oil on canvas, 48.5 x 74.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Monet came to London in 1871 as a refugee from the Franco-Prussian war. This view of the Thames…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Port de Brest avec des frégates (Brest Harbour with Frigates) 1872 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 94.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Bretagne | Brest (France)
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