This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
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Thomas Howard (1561-1626), 1st Earl of Suffolk. A full-length portrait to left in Garter robes and wearing a hat. He is shown standing against a background of rich silk drapes. In the Armada campaign of 1588 Howard commanded the ‘Golden Lion’
1617
National Maritime Museum
Robert Rich (1587-1658), 2nd Earl of Warwick. Oil painting (unframed). This is a copy of BHC3080 (acquired in 1949). When it was made is not known but it was presented to the Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital in or about 1825. The last edition of the pr
National Maritime Museum
A Fishing Boat in Rough Sea off a Rocky Shore. A dramatic depiction of a rough sea driving a two-masted vessel, probably a hooker, into a narrow channel between the soaring crag on the left and the rocks. The foaming water indicates the ferocity of the wa
1620s
National Maritime Museum
A Ship in a Rough Sea. In this painting, Verbeeck takes up the established subject of ships sailing off a rocky coast in a gale, which appears in both Flemish and Dutch seascapes during the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Under a moderately clou
1620s
National Maritime Museum
Dutch Ships in a Rough Sea. This tiny panel depicts shipping off a rocky coast in rough weather. Five vessels are shown sailing across large, rolling waves. Four of these vessels are visible in the far background, close to the horizon, and one is shown in
late 1620s
National Maritime Museum
Flagmen of Lowestoft: Edward Montagu, 1625-72, 1st Earl of Sandwich. A three-quarter-length portrait to right in a leather coat and breastplate, with a red and gold sash is round his waist. He wears the ribbon of the Garter over his right shoulder to whic
1666
National Maritime Museum
A Dutch Ship and a Kaag in a Fresh Breeze. Under a tall pale blue sky, with light shimmering through white clouds, a number of ships can be seen sailing in a fresh breeze. A small whale or dolphin is spouting water, in the foreground, amid the choppy wave
1628–30
National Maritime Museum
Dutch Yachts Racing. In this unusually large painting from the 1630s, van Eertvelt depicts a dramatic scene of Dutch yachts sailing in a stiff breeze off a northern European coast. The yachts are shown racing in a stiff breeze and, in the foreground, the
1630s
National Maritime Museum
Embarkation of Spanish Troops. This night scene allows van Eertvelt to demonstrate his artistic and dramatic skills. Against bright moonlight, a Spanish fleet prepares to embark from an imaginary Mediterranean coast. On the right the mountainous landscape
1630s
National Maritime Museum
Shipping in a Breeze Off a Rock. In this work, by Pieter Mulier the Elder, the most arresting element is the rock formation, on the left, which emphatically counterbalances the vessel sailing past it on the right. The rock is dramatically split down its m
1630s
National Maritime Museum
Sir Kenelm Digby, 1603-65. A half-length portrait to left, with Digby in black and his right hand on his breast. The presence of a sunflower on the left is an allegorical symbol indicating his deep loyalty and constancy to the monarch, Charles I.
Digby
1630s
National Maritime Museum
Ships Becalmed on a Rocky Coast. An early work depicting shipping, on a calm sea, in a bay. A small fishing pink, in starboard-bow view, glides into the scene from the left. Several figures are shown on board. Next to it a little boat, in which three men
1632/1640s
National Maritime Museum
Dutch Men-of-War off a Craggy Coast. De Vlieger favoured serene, undisturbed seas. This painting is one of three quiet coastal scenes by the artist in this exhibition (BHC0776 and BHC0778). Here, two Dutch men-of-war lie at anchor well off the fantastical
1637/early 1640s
National Maritime Museum
A Dutch Ferry Boat Before a Breeze. A variety of shipping is shown, on a blustery day, off the Dutch coast. A kaag or ferry boat with a red sail occupies the centre foreground of the painting. She flies the Dutch flag at the mainmast and is carrying a ran
late 1640s
National Maritime Museum
A Dutch Ship Running onto a Rocky Coast. A Dutch trading ship, flying the Dutch flag, is being carried by bleak and tenebrous waters which force it towards dark, foreboding cliffs. Foamy waves, composed diagonally across the surface of the painting, haul
late 1640s
National Maritime Museum
Dutch Ferry Boats in a Fresh Breeze. This painting shows Dutch boats in a fresh breeze. Boats traverse a busy waterway in order to reach the land which is visible on the far right of the composition. Two boats are laden with passengers and are ferrying pe
1640s
National Maritime Museum
Seascape with Sailors Sheltering from a Rainstorm. A group of sailors huddle, in a cave, beneath a rugged cliff. Torrential rain falls diagonally from the thick black clouds which hover menacingly above. A smooth, flat sea is rendered in silvery-grey tone
1640s
National Maritime Museum
Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1663-1733, 1st Viscount Torrington. A full-length portrait of Admiral George Byng, Viscount Torrington, facing to the right and towards the viewer. He is wearing viscount's robes and a shoulder-length grey full-botto
1734
National Maritime Museum
A Dutch settlement in India viewed from the land. This painting, which is one of a pair, shows a busy Dutch East Indies factory port at the height of its success in the mid-seventeenth century. We, the viewers, look along the shoreline to the town beyond.
1670s
National Maritime Museum
A Dutch settlement in India. This painting is one of a pair of grisailles (BHC1934) in which Backhuysen depicted a bustling Indian port. The image captures a busy Dutch East Indies factory port at the height of its success in the mid-seventeenth century.
1670s
National Maritime Museum
Fishing Boats in a Storm off the Dutch Coast at Den Helder. In this painting Abraham Storck depicts the North Sea and the Dutch coast under a threatening sky. Sun and shadow alternate on the turbulent billows. Seagulls are swept along by the strong wind.
1670-5
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sir John Norris, 1670/1-1749. Norris served with, and under the patronage of, Sir Cloudesley Shovell from 1680 until promoted Captain in 1690. He was present with Shovell at the Battle of Malaga in 1704 and at the capture of Barcelona in 1705 when
1711
National Maritime Museum
Admiral James Berkeley, 1680-1736, 3rd Earl of Berkeley. Although this painting bears Peter Monamy's signature below the buoy on the right it is unlikely that he was responsible for more than the marine background, since he is not otherwise known to
circa 1720
National Maritime Museum
A Fresh Breeze in the Mediterranean. Several ships have been depicted sailing through a squall. In the foreground, to the right, a lateen-rigged Mediterranean vessel forges into the picture plane on a wind blowing abeam from left to right. It appears to b
1690s
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Francis Holburne, 1704-71, and his son, Sir Francis, 4th Baronet, 1752-1820. A three-quarter-length portrait, full face, wearing flag officer's undress uniform of 1748–67 and a tie wig. His right hand is round the shoulders of his youn
1756
National Maritime Museum
Portrait of a Naval Officer, possibly Isaac Townsend, d.1765. A large full-length portrait slightly to right in a blue velvet coat fastened with gold clips and a long full-bottomed wig. He holds a drape around him with his right hand and a telescope in hi
pre-1707
National Maritime Museum
Captain Nicholas Haddock (c. 1685-1746). A three-quarter-length, full-face portrait to the right showing Haddock in a buff-coloured coat and a full-bottomed wig, with a ship and a yacht in the right background. There is a later inscription: ‘Nichola
about 1715
National Maritime Museum
Admiral George Bridges Rodney, 1718-92, 1st Baron Rodney. A three-quarter-length portrait seated to right in admiral's full-dress uniform, 1787-95, and wearing the ribbon and star of the Bath. He wears white breeches and blue-green stockings and is s
1791
National Maritime Museum
John Montagu, 1718-92, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 1st Lord of the Admiralty. Full-length to left in a black velvet suit, the coat lined with green silk and both coat and waistcoat laced with gold braid. He wears white silk stockings, black buckled shoes, a tie
1783
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord George Brydges Rodney (1719-1792), 1st Baron Rodney. A full length portrait to right in admiral’s full dress uniform and wearing the ribbon and star of the Bath. His right hand is on an anchor fluke and his left clenched across his ches
1824
National Maritime Museum
An English Fleet Coming to Anchor. The subject has traditionally been described as the 'Royal Anne' arriving with the Queen of Portugal at Spithead in 1708. However, the presence of the Hanoverian ‘GR’ on the stern of the boat betwee
late 1720s
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Samuel Hood, 1724-1816, 1st Viscount Hood. A half-length portrait to right, wearing flag officer's full-dress uniform, 1767-83, and white wig. The background consists of blue sky and the lower half forms a painted oval. Hood served under Sir
1784
National Maritime Museum
A 17th century Whaling Scene. Dutch whaling in the Arctic had started in the early 17th century, driven by the economic aims of the Noordsche Compagnie, or North Company, part of the Dutch fleet. Dutch whalers were sailing up the coast of Greenland and of
1724
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Alexander Hood, 1726-1814, 1st Viscount Bridport. A three-quarter-length portrait facing left, wearing an admiral's undress uniform of 1787-95, and the KGB. Admiral Hood was third in command at the Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794. O
1795
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Alexander Hood, 1726-1814, 1st Viscount Bridport. This is a preliminary sketch for BHC2571, showing a half-length depiction of Admiral Alexander Hood, Lord Bridport, rather than the three-quarter length of the finished portrait.
1795
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Richard Howe, 1726-99, 1st Earl Howe. A half-length full-face portrait within a painted circle. The sitter wears admiral's undress uniform, 1787-95, of a blue jacket with gold braid and his own white hair.
On 1 June 1794, in command of the
1794
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Edward Vernon, 1684-1757. A three-quarter-length portrait to right in a brown cloth coat and black full-bottomed wig. He holds a baton in his right hand, and stands against a background of rock. On the right there is a two-decker ship with a red e
Begun in mid-1730s-43
National Maritime Museum
Admiral John Jervis, 1735-1823, 1st Earl of St Vincent. A full-length portrait to left in admiral's full-dress uniform, 1795-1812, wearing the ribbon and Star of the Bath and the St Vincent medal. Jervis's right hand rests on his sheathed sword
1806
National Maritime Museum
Rear-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1748-1810, 1st Baron Collingwood. A full-length portrait to the right, showing Collingwood in rear-admiral’s full dress uniform of the 1795–1812 pattern (with inaccuracies), wearing his medals for the First o
1827
National Maritime Museum
Captain Justinian Nutt, 1700-58. (Updated, October 2017) A half-length portrait slightly to left in captain's undress uniform, 1748-67, and white wig. The portrait is set in a plain background inside a painted oval.
The sitter was master of the
circa 1750
National Maritime Museum
Mrs Justinian Nutt (née Elizabeth Cooke), 1726-97. (Updated, October 2017) A half-length portrait slightly to right in a painted oval with a plain background. She wears a black velvet saque, or dress, open at the sleeves and front to reveal a low-
circa 1750
National Maritime Museum
William Carnegie (1756-1831), 7th Earl of Northesk. (Updated September 2014) Carnegie, a younger son of the admiral sixth Earl of Northesk, entered the Navy in 1771 and became a captain in 1782. From 1788, after the death of his elder brothers, he was sty
1805
National Maritime Museum
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 1758-1805, 1st Viscount Nelson. Half-length facing left in rear-admiral's undress uniform, 1795-1812 pattern, wearing the St Vincent medal and the star of a KB. The empty right sleeve is pinned across and the upper part sl
1798
National Maritime Museum
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, 1st Viscount Nelson. (Revised April 2013) A long bust-length portrait to left in vice-admiral's undress uniform, 1795-1812, wearing a hat. It has previously mistakenly been stated to relate to Keymer's po
circa 1801
National Maritime Museum
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, 1st Viscount Nelson. A full-length portrait slightly to left, facing to right in vice-admiral’s undress uniform, 1795-1812. He is shown wearing his orders and holds a sword in his left and only hand, pointing
1801
National Maritime Museum
A flag officer, previously thought to be Sir Chaloner Ogle (1729-1816), Admiral of the Red. A three-quarter-length portrait showing the sitter turned half to viewer's right, in the flag officer's full-dress uniform of 1767-83 and apparently wear
1767-83
National Maritime Museum
'View from Point Venus, Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]'. Hodges' paintings of the Pacific are vivid records of British exploration. He was appointed by the Admiralty to record the places discovered on Cook's second voyage, undertaken in t
Late 1770s
National Maritime Museum
'Resolution' and 'Discovery' at Huaheine. (Updated, February 2018) This painting refers to James Cook’s third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-80. To the right the ‘Resolution’ and the ‘Discovery’ are at anch
1780s
National Maritime Museum
Rodney's Fleet Taking in Prizes after the Moonlight Battle, 16 January 1780. A painting showing a scene after the Moonlight battle 16 January 1780. Sir George Rodney was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Leeward Islands in the autumn of 1779, durin
1793
National Maritime Museum
The Moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780. Sir George Rodney was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Leeward Islands in the autumn of 1779, during the War of American Independence, and on his way out he convoyed supplies to the beleaguered
1780
National Maritime Museum
The Moonlight Battle: the Battle off Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780. An unusual representation of the Moonlight battle, during the War of American Independence, 1775-83. Cape St Vincent is on the south coast of Portugal and the site of several important
1781
National Maritime Museum
The Moonlight Battle: the Battle off Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780. Oil painting (in temporary slip-type frame)
1781
National Maritime Museum
Repulse of the French in Frigate Bay, St Kitts, 26 January 1782. (Updated, March 2015) The Battle of Frigate Bay was an action during the War of American Independence (American Revolutionary War). Also known as the Battle of St Kitts, it took place betwee
1783
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Frigate Bay, 26 January 1782. The Battle of Frigate Bay was an action during the American Revolutionary War. Also known as the battle of St Kitts, it took place between a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood and a larger and more
1784
National Maritime Museum
End of the action between HMS Magicienne and La Sibylle, 2 January 1783. Painting.
1784
National Maritime Museum
Start of the action between HMS Magicienne and La Sibylle, 2 January 1783. 'Start of the action between HMS Magicienne and La Sibylle, 2 January 1783'. This painting depicts a battle that occurred on 2nd January 1783 between the 32-gun frigate H
1784
National Maritime Museum
The Wreck of the East Indiaman 'Dutton' in Plymouth Sound, 26 January 1796. (Updated, March 2015) The painting interprets an event from the life of Admiral Sir Edward Pellew (1757-1833), 1st Viscount Exmouth. He lived in Devon, as did Luny from
1821
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Henry John Chetwynd, 1803-68, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury. A head and shoulders, facing to the right in profile, wearing a brown coat against a pastoral background. Watts has achieved a portrait that is both intimate and melancholy, reflecting the sit
about 1865
National Maritime Museum
The East Indiaman Roxburgh Castle with the ship Sir Edward Paget off Dover. Ship portrait. The 'Sir Edward Paget', seen in stern view on the right beyond a pilot cutter, flies her distinguishing number: the 'Roxburgh Castle's' nam
possibly 1830
National Maritime Museum
The ship 'Matilda' and cutter 'Zephyr'. Ship portrait. Oil painting entitled 'The ship "Matilda" and cutter "Zephyr" ', the ships being identified by the names on the flags shown. These are common names bu
probably 1830s
National Maritime Museum
Rear-Admiral Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Bt, 1838-1917. Loraine joined the Navy in 1852 and from April 1854 was a midshipman in the frigate 'Trincomalee' (today preserved as a museum ship at Hartlepool). From 1859 to 1862 he was a lieutenant in th
1884
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford (1768-1847). A three-quarter length portrait to right wearing admiral’s undress uniform, with the ribbon and star of the GCB and the ribbon of the San Domingo Medal. His right hand is on his hip and his left rests on a pa
1840s
National Maritime Museum
Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1859-1935, 1st Earl Jellicoe. A three-quarter-length portrait slightly to the left, wearing an admiral of the fleet's frock coat, 1901-29. He also wears the medal ribbons and the cross of the Order of Merit, with t
1933
National Maritime Museum
Indiaman in the Thames. Knell was one of the leading and most accomplished marine painters in 19th-century Britain, with paintings in the Royal Collection. This grandly ambitious and dramatic canvas demonstrates why. It shows a battered and storm-damaged
possibly circa 1864
National Maritime Museum
View of San Sebastian. A dramatic evocation of the coast at San Sebastian in northern Spain. Monte Urgull rises up in the centre of the painting with the buildings of the Castillo de Santa Cruz de la Mota shown on the sides and summit. In the background l
1870s
National Maritime Museum
Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, 1871-1936. A life sketch for the painting of a group of officers, 'Naval Officers of World War I', 1921, at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG1913), by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope. This sketc
1920
National Maritime Museum
James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope (1880-1967). A three-quarter-length, full-face portrait showing Stanhope seated to the left with his hands on his lap wearing a black suit and black striped tie with pin. The painting is signed: ‘James Gunn&
1946
National Maritime Museum
Walter Leslie Runciman, 1900-89, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford. This portrait was commissioned by the Museum's Trustees on the sitter's retirement as Chairman in 1972. Runciman is shown in profile and slightly from above in a dark suit and ti
1973
National Maritime Museum
A coastal view. Oil painting by Herbert Barnard John Everett, entitled 'A coastal view'. There is another oil painting on the verso.
probably 1903/1904
National Maritime Museum
A shoreline view. Oil painting by Herbert Barnard John Everett, entitled 'A shoreline view'.
probably 1903
National Maritime Museum
A coastal view. Oil painting entitled 'A coastal view'. The location is uncertain but the rig of the vessel shown suggests a ketch-rigged Thames barge, so probably off the English south-east coast. [PvdM 5/15]
probably 1905
National Maritime Museum
Seascape. Oil painting by Herbert Barnard John Everett, entitled 'Seascape'.
probably 1909
National Maritime Museum
La Rochelle: fishing boats at the Quai des Dames, in front of the fish market. The view looks north from the basin of the inner harbour of La Rochelle, across the Quai des Dames and up the Rue Saint-Jean-du-Perot to the 17th-century entrance of the fish
1920s
National Maritime Museum
La Rochelle: fishing boats at the Quai des Dames, in front of the fish market. This is a looser and more subdued version of BHC1408, for which it may be a preliminary study: see that entry for fuller information. Two other examples (BHC1846 and BHC1852) a
1920s
National Maritime Museum
La Rochelle: fishing boats at the Quai des Dames. Previously titled ' A fishing vessel', this is one of several such harbour studies by Everett, all apparently of what used to be the main fish-landing wharf at La Rochelle, the broad Quai des Dam
1926
National Maritime Museum
La Rochelle: fishing boats in the harbour. Previously titled 'Harbour Scene, France', this painting appears to be one of four showing fishing boats airing their sails at or off the Quai des Dames, the north side of the inner harbour at La Rochel
1926
National Maritime Museum
The 'Cutty Sark' at Sunset. Oil painting by the British artist John Everett of the 'Curry Sark' at Sunset. By the 1930s, Everett was experimenting with unusual compositions, rhythmic shapes and contrasting colours. The waves are painte
1920s-30s
National Maritime Museum
Fort de France, Martinique, from the 'Suzanne'. A sketch showing the profile of the coastline of Fort de France, Martinique. Everett has captured the intensity of the sunset over the mountains in the centre of the image. He concentrates on the r
10 January 1929
National Maritime Museum
Deck scene on the 'Iquique'. A painting along the deck of the 'Iquique' and showing the deck-house and mast on the right. The sails frame the image, creating a complex canopy over the painting and attached by taut ropes on the left. In
1930s
National Maritime Museum
The 'Cutty Sark', Bow View. A large and dramatic evocation of the bow of the 'Cutty Sark', showing a carved figurehead. In this highly stylized painting the ship is shown moving through the waves at sunset. The sails of the ship loom a
1930s
National Maritime Museum
Seascape near Gibraltar, from the 'Ravenspoint'. A preliminary sketch of a seascape from the 'Ravenspoint', looking towards an empty horizon. The artist has created washes of colour to represent the sea and the movement of the waves be
January 1935
National Maritime Museum