Collection: Paintings and Sculpture / Subject Terms: sea and water

1. 1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on board
Dimensions:: 7 5/8 x 9 inches (19.4 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with funds from Neil Phillips, Yale LLB 1951, and Ivan Phillips, Yale BA 1956, in memory of their parents, The Hon. Lazarus Phillips and Rosalie Phillips
On View:: Not on view

2. An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
Date:: ca. 1695
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 5/8 x 19 3/8 inches (32.1 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

3. Nocturne in Blue and Silver

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1872 to 1878, butterfly added ca. 1885
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 24 inches (44.5 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: On view at YUAG

4. Corfu from Santa Decca

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
On View:: Not on view

5. Horse on the Beach

Creator:: Jack Butler Yeats, 1871–1957
Date:: 1923
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/8 × 14 1/4 inches (23.2 × 36.2 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. English Ships Coming to Anchor in a Fresh Breeze

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: late 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/2 x 65 1/2 inches (105.4 x 166.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. 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

9. Cavern, near Naples

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1774
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, Bequest of Pamela Askew
On View:: Not on view

10. 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

11. Edinburgh from the Castle

Creator:: David Roberts, 1796–1864
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 84 inches (121.9 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. View of Santa Cruz, Tenerife

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 × 44 1/4 inches (68.6 × 112.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. The Harbour of Pulo Condere

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (19.7 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. 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

15. 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

16. Figures on a Balcony, probably at Westpoint

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: ca. 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 x 12 inches (20.3 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

17. Forecast

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1945
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on gesso-prepared board
Dimensions:: 24 x 22 3/4 inches (61 x 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

18. Coast with Cliffs and Boats

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: early 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 4 7/8 x 8 inches (12.4 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Yacht Racing on the Solent

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 6 x 9 3/4 inches (15.2 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Off the Needles, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 35 1/2 inches (69.9 × 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. 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

22. Seascape

Creator:: George Grosvenor Thomas, 1856–1923
Date:: between 1890 and 1895
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
On View:: Not on view

23. Beach Scene

Creator:: Attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 8 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches (22.2 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard S. Miller
On View:: Not on view

24. Irish landscape

Creator:: Martin Mooney, born 1964
Date:: ca. 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 28 3/4 inches (61 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Philip Solomon
On View:: Not on view

25. Normandy Coast

Creator:: Attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 10 7/8 x 15 1/2 inches (27.6 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Richard L. Purdy
On View:: Not on view

26. Tantallon Castle (?), a study

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (29.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. The Balcony, Yokohama

Creator:: Edward Atkinson Hornel, 1864–1933
Date:: 1894
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas laid down on panel
Dimensions:: 16 x 19 7/8 inches (40.6 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
On View:: Not on view

28. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

Creator:: William Shiels, 1785–1857
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 50 3/4 inches (96.5 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. Landscape, Possibly the Isle of Wight or Richmond Hill

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 7/8 x 12 inches (22.5 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Ebbing Tide

Creator:: James Whitelaw Hamilton, 1860–1932
Date:: ca. 1896
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
On View:: Not on view

31. Beach Scene, Dieppe Sands

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: 1920
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 29 inches (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

32. Channel Coast

Creator:: Ruskin Spear, 1911–1990
Date:: ca. 1975
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite board
Dimensions:: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

33. 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

34. Two Nudes on a Beach

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1928 to 1932
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 42 x 27 inches (106.7 x 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

35. Shepherd Boy on a Hillside

Creator:: William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (18.4 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. After the Barge Race, Pin Mill

Creator:: Edward Brian Seago, 1910–1974
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 11 x 16 inches (27.9 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

37. Yarmouth Pier

Creator:: John Crome, 1768–1821
Date:: between 1810 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 x 33 inches (52.1 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Man of War Rocks, Coast of Dorset

Creator:: John Brett, 1831–1902
Date:: 1884
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 48 inches (61 × 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Henry Luce Foundation
On View:: Not on view

39. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: ca. 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 x 6 3/4 inches (22.9 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. The Shallows of Hareslade Cove, Gower

Creator:: John Brett, 1831–1902
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 30 inches (38.1 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

41. An Evening Calm

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: undated, between 1696 and 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 14 inches (30.5 x 35.6 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

42. A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam

Creator:: Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 48 inches (78.7 x 121.9 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

43. Sailing Boats and Barges on a Dutch(?) Estuary

Creator:: John Berney Crome, 1794–1842
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 × 48 inches (86.4 × 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

44. Coast Scene at Cullercoats near Whitley Bay

Creator:: Attributed to John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: ca. 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on masonite board
Dimensions:: 8 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (21.6 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. 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

46. Whitehaven, Cumbria, Showing Flatt Hall

Creator:: Matthias Read, 1669–1747
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 72 inches (101.6 x 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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1. 1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

2. An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs

3. Nocturne in Blue and Silver

4. Corfu from Santa Decca

5. Horse on the Beach

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

7. English Ships Coming to Anchor in a Fresh Breeze

8. Captain William Locker

9. Cavern, near Naples

10. An English Sloop and a Frigate in a Light Breeze

11. Edinburgh from the Castle

12. View of Santa Cruz, Tenerife

13. The Harbour of Pulo Condere

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

15. Shipping in a Choppy Sea

16. Figures on a Balcony, probably at Westpoint

17. Forecast

18. Coast with Cliffs and Boats

19. Yacht Racing on the Solent

20. Off the Needles, Isle of Wight

21. Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor

22. Seascape

23. Beach Scene

24. Irish landscape

25. Normandy Coast

26. Tantallon Castle (?), a study

27. The Balcony, Yokohama

28. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

29. Landscape, Possibly the Isle of Wight or Richmond Hill

30. Ebbing Tide

31. Beach Scene, Dieppe Sands

32. Channel Coast

33. The Fishery

34. Two Nudes on a Beach

35. Shepherd Boy on a Hillside

36. After the Barge Race, Pin Mill

37. Yarmouth Pier

38. Man of War Rocks, Coast of Dorset

39. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall

40. The Shallows of Hareslade Cove, Gower

41. An Evening Calm

42. A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam

43. Sailing Boats and Barges on a Dutch(?) Estuary

44. Coast Scene at Cullercoats near Whitley Bay

45. Shipping in a Calm

46. Whitehaven, Cumbria, Showing Flatt Hall