Paintings of the sea, harbors, ships and the water's edge. A work belongs here when the cited article names the sea, a harbor, a ship or boats as the subject. It excludes river valleys and mountain scenes. Painters of marine subjects studied weather, water and light at sea, and the group follows the subject named in the cited article. The paintings show the sea in storm and calm, ships at work and at the end of their service, and the light on a harbor at dawn. Painters of the nineteenth century treated the subject as a study of weather, change and the passing of an age. It excludes scenes on inland rivers and views of towns.
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The Ninth Wave (Wikipedia)
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The Ninth Wave (Russian: Девятый вал, Dyevyatiy val) is an 1850 painting by Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky.
Impression, Sunrise (Wikipedia)
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Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874.
Regatta at Sainte-Adresse (Monet) (Wikipedia)
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The Regatta at Sainte-Adresse is an oil-on-canvas painting by the impressionist painter Claude Monet.
The Fighting Temeraire (Wikipedia)
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The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth
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