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Painting of a sailing ship firing a cannon, white smoke drifting over calm water with small boats and a distant vessel.

The cannon shot

Willem van de Velde, c. 1680

Painting of fishing boats at anchor on calm water with women walking on wet sand under a pastel sunset sky.

Fishing Boats from Scheveningen Anchored

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1860

Oil painting of Dutch sailing ships on calm water, with a crowded rowing boat and puffs of gunsmoke under a cloudy sky.

The greeting of the government sloop by the inland fleet

Jan van de Cappelle, 1650

Oil seascape of large sailing ships and small rowing boats on calm water under cumulus clouds, with gun smoke on the right.

Captured English Ships after the Four Days’ Battle

Willem van de Velde, c. 1666

Watercolor of brown-sailed fishing boats in choppy surf under a heavy grey sky, with seagulls and distant ships.

Fishing Boats in the Surf

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1841

Oil painting of a three-masted ship firing guns in a bay, smoke rising near a hillside town, with rowboats in the water.

HMS Steam-Powered Battleship Medusa Opening the Shimonoseki Straits

jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest, 1864

Oil painting of large sailing ships with flags surrounded by small boats on green water, with a city skyline on the right.

The return to Amsterdam of the second expedition to the East Indies

Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, 1599

Dutch sailing ships with flags in a harbor under clouds, with elegant figures and dockworkers on the shore.

Dutch Ships in the Roads of Texel; in the middle the 'Gouden Leeuw', the Flagship of Cornelis Tromp

Ludolf Bakhuizen, 1671

Grey wash drawing of large sailing warships with flags and rowing boats on calm sea under a cloudy sky.

"Council of War aboard ""The Seven Provinces"", the Flagship of Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 10 June 1666, precedi…

Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 1666 - 1693

Painting of moored sailing boats with tall masts and rigging in a murky harbour, with a blue-painted hull in the foreground.

Ships in the ice

George Hendrik Breitner, 1901

Painting of brown-sailed fishing boats on calm water under a soft golden cloudy sky, with fishermen working on deck.

Fishing Boats on Calm Water

Anthonie Waldorp, 1840

Grey monochrome painting of a naval battle with warships, gunsmoke, sinking vessels and rowing boats on choppy water.

Battle between the Dutch and Swedish Fleets, in the Sound, 8 November 1658

Willem van de Velde, 1665

Oil painting of a sailing boat with a large brown sail tilting through rough sea under dark clouds, with smaller boats on the

A Packet-Boat Sailing before the Wind

Pieter Mulier, c. 1640 - c. 1650

Dutch sailing warship ramming crowded Spanish galleys in rough sea, men falling into the water, smoke and ships in background

Dutch ships ramming Spanish galleys off the English coast, 3 October 1602.[1] Alternative title(s): Dutch ships rammi…

Cornelis Vroom, 1617

Painting of two sailing boats in rough sea under a cloudy sky, with a distant town and church tower on the left.

Fishing Boats in Choppy Waters

Jan Porcellis, c. 1630

Oil painting of a river view with a rowing boat, sailboats, tall trees and a church tower under a cloudy sky.

River View near Deventer

Salomon van Ruysdael, 1645

Painting of Dutch ships and small boats attacking burning English vessels near a fortified shore under thick smoke, 1667.

The Dutch burning English ships during the Raid on the Medway, 20 June 1667.[1] Alternative title(s): De Hollanders s…

Jan van Leyden, 1667

Oil painting of a three-masted ship and a small sailboat battling choppy waves under dramatic storm clouds.

Ships in a Turbulent Sea

Johannes Christiaan Schotel, 1826

Oil painting of sailing ships and boats tossed on rough grey sea under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Seascape from the Zeeland Waters, near the Island of Schouwen

Petrus Johannes Schotel, 1825 - 1827

Painting of a rough sea with a large ship, an orange-sailed boat, and a fisherman in a small boat under dramatic clouds.

Rough sea with Ships

Ludolf Bakhuizen, 1697

Ink drawing of several sailing ships and a rowing boat on choppy water beside a wooden pier, with flags and clouds.

Ships near a Harbor

Experiens Sillemans, 1649

Stormy sea with sailing boats in rough waves under dramatic clouds, a low shoreline on the horizon.

Storm on the Meuse River

Hendrick Martensz Sorgh, 1668

Seascape with a beached sailboat, figures on the sand, distant ships and large clouds under a blue sky.

An extensive seascape with figures by a boat on a shore near Huisduinen

Ludolf Bakhuizen, 1667

Painting of Dutch sailing ships in a harbour roadstead, with a crowd on the quay and a large cloud overhead.

Dutch Ships in the Roads of Texel; in the middle the 'Gouden Leeuw', the Flagship of Cornelis Tromp

Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1671

Oil painting of a boy with a toy sailboat at a table and a young woman in an apron sewing in a dim interior.

The Fisherman's Children

Bernard Blommers, 1868

Painting of people on a beach watching a sailing boat with red sails approach through surf under a grey sky.

Arrival of the Boats

Jacob Maris, 1884

Oil painting of a Dutch harbour with a three-masted ship under the Dutch flag, figures on a quay, and a cloudy sky.

The Y at Amsterdam, with the Frigate 'De Ploeg'

Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1680 - 1708

Winter scene of skaters, an ice-boat and a sleigh on a frozen canal before a brick town, painted in 1611.

Landscape with Frozen Canal, Skaters and an Ice-Boat

Adam van Breen, 1611

Hazy dusk view of a Dordrecht harbor with a church tower, ship masts, and dark boats under a golden sky.

Ships in the Port of Dordrecht

Jacob Maris, 1880

Oil painting of a rough sea with a large Dutch sailing ship, a smaller orange-sailed boat, a fishing boat, and stormy clouds.

Rough Sea with Ships

Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1697