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Painting of a brown-sailed boat near a sandy beach with a figure at the shore under a cloudy sky.

Beach Scene

Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch, 1870

Portrait of Johan-Hendrick-Louis Meyer, Marine Painter

Jan Weissenbruch, 1850

Painting of Dutch whaling ships among ice floes, with crews hunting whales and fighting polar bears in the foreground.

Whaling in the Artic Ocean

Abraham Storck, 1654

Painting of a harbor at sunset with sailing ships, rowboats and figures on calm water beneath layered clouds.

Harbor at Sunset

Jan Claesz. Rietschoof, 1675

Painting of a rocky cliff with a waterfall, riders on the shore, and sailing ships on a calm sea under a cloudy sky.

Rocky Coast

Simon de Vlieger, 1630

Lunette panel of three Dutch sailing ships with billowing sails and flags on choppy sea under a golden hazy sky.

'Our Pioneers': Seventeenth-Century Ships at Sea

Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest, 1880

Muted seascape with sailing boats on choppy water, figures on a sandy beach at right, and a distant church tower.

Seascape off Scheveningen Beach

Willem van Diest, 1629

Painting of a three-masted ship with billowing sails battling large waves under a hazy orange sky.

Ships in a Storm

Andries van Eertvelt, 1600

Painting of a classical arch on a stone quay with sailing boats on calm water and figures under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Quay and Ships on a Lake

Francesco Guardi, 1760

Four seated men in dark coats and powdered wigs at a green-draped table with quills, papers, and coats of arms behind them.

The Four Chief Commissioners of the Amsterdam Harbor Works

Wybrand Hendriks, 1791

Painting of a sailing boat heeling in rough sea under a grey stormy sky, with a distant ship, a pier, and two gulls.

Rough Sea with Sailing Vessels

Georges Johannes Hoffmann, 1850

Painting of a canal street in Leiden with wrecked houses, debris, workers and people among rubble, and a church tower behind.

The Rapenburg, Leiden, three Days after the Explosion of a Powder Ship on 12 January 1807

Johannes Jelgerhuis, 1807

Hazy harbor scene with tall masts of moored ships, flying gulls, and a muted grey-brown sky.

Harbor View

Jacob Maris, 1887

Circular seascape painting of a large Dutch ship at anchor with smaller vessels on calm water under a cloudy sky.

Ships at Anchor

Willem van de Velde, 1650

Painting of a sunlit cliff with a natural arch above a sandy beach, with fishing boats, figures, and a sailboat at sea.

Seascape near the Coast

Willem Anthonie van Deventer, 1845

Painting of a brown-sailed boat on a calm waterway with reeds, under a cloudy sky, with another sailboat in the distance.

Ships in Dull Weather

Jacob Maris, 1877

Still life with violin, printed broadsheet, pewter jug, wine glass, fish and bread on a table, by Anthonius Leemans, 1655.

Still Life with a Copy of De Waere Mercurius, a Broadsheet with the News of Tromp's Victory over three English Ships…

Anthonius Leemans, 1655

Painting of a calm harbour at sunrise with sailing ships, a classical arch, a stone tower and figures on the quay.

Harbour at Sunrise

Claude Lorrain, 1637

Oil painting on copper of a crowd on a shore facing boats on a bay, with a mountain and town in the hazy distance.

The Sermon on the Sea of Galilee

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1600 - 1699

Color woodcut of a naval battle with steamships, smoke, a sinking vessel, and soldiers on a deck in rough seas.

Enemy Ships Deterred at Haiyangdao

Utagawa Kunitora, c. 1894

Etching of a three-masted sailing ship on calm sea with other vessels and a steamship in the distance under cloudy sky.

Seascape with a three-master and other ships

Franz Maecker, 1883

Watercolor of a star-shaped striped flower, green succulent stems and a pale bud, framed by blue lines.

Sea Star Flower (Stapelia hirsuta)

Nicolaas Juweel, 1675

Etching of musicians playing a harp and string instrument on a ship deck, with seated listeners and sails in the background.

Musicians playing on the deck of a ship

Jan Toorop, 1900

Hand-coloured print of a sailing ship at anchor near a coast, with a rowing boat and a house on the shore.

View of a body of water with ships

Johann Heinrich Troll, 1766

Hand-colored lithograph of a fisherman in a tall hat standing on a rock by the sea, with distant figures on the dune.

Fisherman from Dordrecht on the coast

Jean Baptiste Madou, 1825

Engraving of a sailing ship in battle amid smoke and fireworks, with a Latin inscription beneath the scene.

Spectacle with ship with fireworks and the pillars of Hercules

Jacob Neefs, 1636

Engraved design of a harbor triumphal gateway with Neptune in a sea chariot, ships, and allegorical figures on pillars.

Honorary arch at the harbor, 1751

Caspar Jacobsz. Philips, 1751

Gray lithograph of a busy harbor with masts, smokestacks, dark pilings at left, and small boats on rippling water.

Ships in the harbor of Hamburg

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Etching of sailing ships on rough sea, with a rowing boat in the foreground and figures watching from a stone pier at right.

Sailing ships on rough water

Gerrit Groenewegen, 1769

Woodcut of wooden breakwater piles in choppy water at a harbor entrance, with a sailing boat, shore buildings and gulls under

Pile heads near the entrance of a harbor

Dirk Hidde Nijland, 1957