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10 Most Famous Ship & Boat Oil Paintings of Masters

Ships & boats are popular subjects in visual art to these masters who lived near a river or a sea. Ship & boat oil paintings, together with natural scenery, depict a broad and delightful view. Most of them contain a whole scene from the surface of water to the sky above. This give us enjoyment between people using these tools and nature. The paintings make themselves to be a better choice of home decoration in limited space. They generate boundlessness which may happen to be the state that some of us want to reach in the thought field. Many famous artists, such as Claude Oscar Monet, loved to paint ship & boat paintings. The 10 most featured paintings have been picked out although for the rest we wished having more time and words to talk about.

1. A Boat in the Waters off Capri

A Boat in the Waters off Capri is a famous artwork painted by impressionism artist John Singer Sargent in 1878. However, Sargent gained more achievements on portrait paintings, such as Madame X, and A Morning Walk.

A Boat in the Waters off Capri

 

2. Pleasure Boats at Argenteuil

Pleasure Boats at Argenteuil is one of the oil paintings with the subject of boats by artist Claude Oscar Monet in 1875 when he, with his family at Argenteuil - a village near the Seine river near Paris and finished Woman with a Parasol. He painted several boat artworks. In 1873, Monet even bought a small boat and it was used as his floating painting studio where he painted landscape oil paintings and also portraits of Édouard Manet and his wife.

Pleasure Boats at Argenteuil

 

3. Ships at Sea

Edward Moran was an American artist and made lots of maritime oil paintings. Edward learned painting under James Hamilton around 1845 who taught him some techniques of marine paintings. Ship at sea is one of Moran’s famous maritime paintings.

Ships at Sea

4. A British Warship Firing Salvoes in a Calm, with Other Boats

Painted by Charles Brooking, it is now collected by Saltram House which is a grade I listed George II era mansion house, near Plymouth in UK. Brooking was an English painter of marine scenery. His careful and detailed attention of the paintings illustrated his maritime experience and high observation ability of wave and wind in the ocean. People guessed he might have a yacht for traveling on the sea.

5. Sailing by Moonlight

Sailing by Moonlight was painted by Winslow Homer in 1880. Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and well known for his marine oil paintings. He is considered one of the famous painters in nineteenth century in America and made great influence to the history American art.

Sailing by Moonlight

 

6. Trieste Fishing Boat

Egon Schiele, painted Trieste Fishing Boat, was an Austrian painter, the similar painting style as Gustav Klimt, Schiele mainly painted figure oil paintings, well known for its intensity and sexuality, and self portraits, included naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that depicts expressionist painting technique.

Trieste Fishing Boat

 

7. Small Boats

Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 - January 29, 1899) who painted Small Boats was an English Impressionist landscape artists who was born in France and lived there for nearly his whole life. Sisley is regarded as the most persistent person among impressionist artists. He made landscape oil paintings with great talent, most of them painted by the river.

Small Boats

 

8. Sailing Boats on the Seine at Argenteuil

Sailing Boats on the Seine at Argenteuil was painted by Gustave Caillebotte who loved sailing very much. He even won sailing competitions on the Seine. His passion for boats exceeded the love for painting. Caillebotte, a friend of Renoir, was also a model for Renoir's famous oil painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Sailing Boats on the Seine at Argenteuil

 

9. Harbour scene from Rapallo

Harbour scene from Rapallo was painted by Paul-Gustav Fischer who gained great reputation of cityscape and bathing oil paintings. The town and harbour of Rapallo lie in a sheltered position at the head of a small gulf, which has one of the most comfortable climates along the whole of the Ligurian coast of Italy.

10. Fishing boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

In 1888, Van Gogh had a trip from Arles to a seaside finishing village of Saintes-Maries on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. During the trip, he made some seaside oil paintings and drawings. Fishing boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer was painted at that time.

Fishing boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
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