The Great Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA

The marine art collection  at this museum should be seen by anybody who loves ships, the sea, and the artists who captured it.  My absolute favorite marine painting is at this museum (see below), and the models are beyond compare.
Jackson and Oliver and I visited, and the boys saw the Chinese house for the first time, and were fascinated. (That's for the next blog).
Here are some examples of the marine art, much of which I have photographed before, of course.

Oliver and Jackson, just after touring the Chinese house. 

The following are examples of Northwest Indian art, available for sale from

several contemporary artists

Edward Moran

1829-1901 American

American Yacht Sappho Winning the Race

with the English Yacht Livonia, 1871

Frans Balthazar Solvyns

1760-1824  Belgium

Launching of an Armed Merchantman

in Calcutta Harbor  1798

Fitz Henry Lane

1804-1865  American

The Yacht America Winning the International Race,   1851

Carved wooden sails!!

Here it is!  And I forgot to write down the title and artist! 

But the capture of the calm ocean just stuns me.  

It is called something like "Seeing the Future"

John Cleveley the Elder

1712-1777  England

The Arrival of Princess Charlotte at Harwich, 1761

Just the detail of a massive painting of dozens of ships, and all their passengers. 

Princess Charlotte married King George III.

A recreation of the dining salon of the  private yacht "Cleopatra's Barge"

Martin Johnson Heade

1819-1904

Sunset on the Marshes, 1867

The great painter of South American orchids and hummingbirds

could certainly do a great landscape.