16th century

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  Claude Lorrain. Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648, National Gallery, London)
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  Peter Brueghel, Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples, (The Harbour of Naples), c. 1558
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  Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. After 1580
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  The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover

17th century

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  Andries van Eertvelt (circle) - The Battle of Lepanto (1622)
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  Rembrandt. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633).

18th century

19th century

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  Caspar David Friedrich, The Monk by the Sea, 1809
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  1818-19
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  The Great Wave off Kanagawa, by Hokusai, c. 1830
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  The Fighting Temeraire (1839) Joseph Mallord William Turner
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  J. M. W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840
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  Ivan Aivazovsky (1850, Russian Museum)
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  Alexey Bogolyubov, Battle of Athos, 1853
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  Édouard Manet, Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama, 1864
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  Gustave Courbet, Autumn Sea, 1867
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  Claude Monet. Impression, soleil levant, (1872, Musée Marmottan Monet)

20th century

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  Summer Squall, 1904. A seascape by Winslow Homer.
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  Piet Mondrian. By the Sea. 1909