Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, Battle of the USS 'Kearsarge' and the CSS 'Alabama'

Date: 1864
Technique: Unknown

The Battle of Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France.

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Édouard Manet, The Battle of the USS 'Kearsarge' and the CSS 'Alabama'

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Date: 1864
Technique: Oil on canvas, 137.8 x 128.9 cm

Manet's first known seascape is an imaginative depiction of an American Civil War naval battle fought off the coast of France, near Cherbourg, on June 19, 1864. In the distance, the CSS Alabama, a scourge of Union shipping, sinks by her stern, clouds of smoke arising from a direct hit to her engines by the USS Kearsarge, which is mostly obscured from view.

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Auguste Louis Rossel, Capture of HMS Ardent by the frigates Junon and Gentille

Date: 1790
Technique: Unknown

HMS Ardent was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by contract by Hugh Blaydes at Hull according to a design by Sir Thomas Slade, and launched on 13 August 1764 as the first ship of the Ardent-class. She had a somewhat turbulent career, being captured by the French in 1779, and then re-captured by Britain in 1782 following the Battle of the Saintes. On 28 August 1783 the ship was renamed Tiger. She was sold out of the service in June 1784.

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Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin, Lighthouse on the Coast of Brittany

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Date: 1845
Technique: Unknown

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Calais Pier

National Gallery, London

Date: 1803
Technique: Oil on canvas, 172 x 240 cm

Turner's picture is based on a real-life event. In 1802 he took his first trip abroad via Calais. On a sketch for this picture he noted that the seas had been so rough he was 'nearly swampt'.

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Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom, Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the English Coast, 3 October 1602

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Date: 1617
Technique: Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 146 cm

Picture depicts the Battle of the narrow seas, also known as Battle of the Dover Straits, naval engagement that took place on the 3–4 October 1602 during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 and part of the Dutch Revolt.

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