Seascape & Marine Prints, Original Paintings & Limited Editions
Here you’ll find seascape and marine artworks available on CollectorsPrints.co.uk, the UK’s leading online retailer of limited edition prints and sculptures.
Seascape art would be considered to be the oceanic equivalent of the urban based cityscape or their ever popular well known cousin the landscape painting, but instead depicting a view of either the sea of the coastline. Marine art concerns itself with all subjects maritime, vessels and seafarers both, whether on the sea of off of it and so can be considered to be also both narrative and figurative.
Images of the sea and the vessels and people who travel upon it are timeless and mesmerising in quality, though the styles of portrayal may change with the passing centuries the subject remains constant and eternal.
Seascape and marine art began to grow in popularity during the 15th and 16th centuries as a greater number of European countries began to put their ships to sea in search of foreign climes, generally these earlier works concentrated on the majesty of the naval fleet and reconstructions of dramatic battles as opposed to the sea itself.
Through the 18th and 19th centuries the focus gradually began to change from images of warships to an appreciation of the natural beauty of the ocean and the style began to move in the direction of seascape paintings that we recognize today. While the genre is as popular as ever, well known locations, particularly those featuring famous landmarks are always especially desirable and often serve as a reminder to collectors of time well spent by the sea.
Well known and notable artists producing seascape and marine art would include; Salomon van Ruysdael, Jan Porcellis, Thomas Buttersworth, Claude Joseph Vernet, Francesco Guardi, J. M. W. Turner, John Frederick Kensett, Fitz Hugh Lane, Montague Dawson and JAmes Batholomew.
