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Classic Tall Sailing Ship on High Seas Sunrise Golden Dawn British Marine Oil
By James Brereton
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
James Brereton (British marine artist, born 1954)
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 25.5 x 29
Category
1990s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Cutty Sark Sailing Ship on High Seas, Huge British Marine Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Kenneth Grant, British b. 1934, signed lower corner
Title: The Cutty Sark
Medium
Category
20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
British Royal Navy Admiral Brass Ship Bell on Dolphin Cast Iron Yoke, c. 1840
Located in Charleston, SC
British Royal Navy Admiral solid brass ship bell mounted on flanking intertwined dolphin cast iron
Category
Antique 1840s English William IV Nautical Objects
Materials
Brass, Iron
Oil Painting of Ships in the Bay at Sunset by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Ships & Figures in the Bay at Sunset by 20th Century British Artist, Victor Elford
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Teak Ship Porthole Carved Door
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Solid teak hand carved exquisite ship door with porthole and fine joinery work. Hardware remnant of
Category
Vintage 1930s British Indian Ocean Territory Art Deco Doors and Gates
Materials
Teak
"A Lee Shore, " 19th c. British School, realist, marine, coast art, ships at sea
Located in Wiscasset, ME
piece as an excellent example of 19th century British School painting.
Category
1870s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Carved Oak Day Bed or Ships Sleigh Bed
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th century carved oak day bed or ships sleigh bed.
This very unusual bed is very much in a
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English British Colonial Beds and Bed Frames
Pair of Colonial British Folding Rosewood Deck Chairs
Located in Nantucket, MA
Pair of early-mid 1900s rosewood, folding steamer chairs. Used on the decks of British steamer
Category
Early 20th Century English British Colonial Chairs
Vintage Brass Navigar Necesse Martime Nautical Ships Chronometer Box Clock
Located in Dayton, OH
rings, called gimbals. Gimbal rings compensated for the pitching and rolling of the ship. Mermaid
Category
Late 20th Century British Colonial Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Brass
British Union Jack of the WWI-WWII Era, Made by John Edgington
Located in York County, PA
RN ships, the Union Jack is the British naval jack. When flown from the mast in 2:3 proportions, it
Category
Mid-20th Century British Political and Patriotic Memorabilia
Materials
Wool
British Royal Navy Boat Binnacle
Located in Norwell, MA
Binnacle compass from a British Royal Navy Ship with engraved brass plate marked “PATT. 0183, No
Category
Vintage 1950s European Nautical Objects
Materials
Brass
American Maritime Sea Captain
s Chest from the Sloop Atalanta, circa 1780
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
description of one of several Sloops that were named the Atalanta, all of which were British ships of War
Category
Antique Late 18th Century American Federal Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Poplar, Mahogany
Ship Model of the Harvey, 1847, Baltimore, Maryland in Case
Located in Savannah, GA
Boyle captured 45 British merchant ships. The Chasseur was later nicknamed the "Pride of Baltimore" and
Category
Early 20th Century American Models and Miniatures
HMS Southampton 1842 Original Maritime Oil Painting Ship Firing Salute
By Derrick Smoothy
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Britain’s leading painters of ships.
Considering his great popularity on the other side of the Atlantic, he
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English Nautical Green Painted Taitsing Ship Blanket Chest Treasure Chest Trunk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
depictions and text.
Top reads "Rule Britannia" with an image of the Taitsing clipper ship and a British
Category
20th Century European Campaign Blanket Chests
Materials
Wood, Paint
19th Century seascape oil painting of ships by moonlight at Rochester
By Hubert Thornley
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Hubert Thornley
British, (exh. 1858 -1898)
Ships at Moonlight, Rochester
Oil on canvas
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ship Model "Sovereign of the Seas " a 17th-century warship of the English Navy
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
The Sovereign of the Seas, an early British "First-Rate Ship of the Line" was launched in 1637 and
Category
20th Century English Renaissance Nautical Objects
Materials
Metal
Fort St. George on the Coromandel Coast – Hand-Colored Engraving by Sayer, 1754
Located in Langweer, NL
of Bengal is animated with a multitude of sailing ships and smaller vessels—some flying British and
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Prints
Materials
Paper
Ships in the Harbour at Moonlight a Maritime Seascape of East Coast of England
Located in Preston, GB
(British, b. 1947)
• Title: Ships in the Harbour at Moonlight, East Coast of England
• Medium: Oil on
Category
1980s English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
British Artist James Hardy III Original Vintage Oil Painting on board Seascape
By James Hardy III
Located in Palm Coast, FL
-left corner Janes Hardy.
James Hardy III (b. 1937) was a British artist known for his ship and marine
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Lap Dog English School circa 1900
s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
and certainly of British authorship.
WE CAN SHIP WORLDWIDE
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Animal Paintings
English Pub Sign, the Standard Inn
Located in Austin, TX
An authentic English pub sign (one-sided) featuring a painting of the stern of a sailing ship and
Category
20th Century English Signs
Materials
Paint, Wood
English Nautical Maritime Mixed-Media Painting of Schooner, Signed, circa 1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
tall mast sailing ship with British flag, signed lower right Deiros, framed and with protective glass
Category
Antique 19th Century English Paintings
Huge Marine Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning and VERY LARGE marine oil painting depicting this classic sailing ship at sea. The white
Category
Mid-19th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naval Ingenuity at Sea: HMS Grafton
s Homeward Voyage, 1758
Located in Langweer, NL
HMS Grafton was a British Royal Navy ship active during the 18th century. The ship’s history is
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Two Abstract Figures on a Fish
By Jossi Stern
Located in Surfside, FL
shores of Palestine, then under the British Mandate, the British Navy intercepted the ship and declared
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Untitled, Olive Trees Outside Jerusalem
By Jossi Stern
Located in Surfside, FL
artist made his way to Palestine aboard the Sakaria, an old ship heavily crowded with 2,300 other
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
PRINZ EUGEN - A Royal Demise
By Arthur Edwaine Beaumont
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
two ships were met with the pride of the British Fleet- WWI Battlecruiser HMS HOOD along with a
Category
1940s Post-War Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Enormous Signed Oil - Naval Battle Engagment Napoleonic Warships at Sea
By Laarhouen
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Wars naval engagement battle between three ships. The British flag can be seen flying on the right hand
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Queen Mary in New York 1936 - Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
ships were a British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian and French companies
Category
1930s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Cutty Sark, signed oil painting
By Louis Letouche
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
, 1872.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Israeli Watercolor Painting 1967 War Jerusalem Lions Gate Judaica Bezalel
By Jossi Stern
Located in Surfside, FL
Palestine, then under the British Mandate, the British Navy intercepted the ship and declared Stern and all
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper, Ink
Mothers and Children Israeli Scene Brush Painting Judaica Bezalel Artist Kibbutz
By Jossi Stern
Located in Surfside, FL
shores of Palestine, then under the British Mandate, the British Navy intercepted the ship and declared
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Bark ST. ANDREW off Point Lynas, Liverpool
By William G. Yorke
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
below the vessel's dolphin striker.
The ship wears the British ensign at the mizzen gaff peak with a
Category
1870s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Terry, Original Large marine painting of the Cutty Sark
Located in Harkstead, GB
inches without the frame
25 x 34½ inches with the frame
The Cutty Sark is a three-masted British clipper
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Hall Oak Chair From The Foudroyant, Lord Nelson’s Flagship
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
, one of only two British-built 80-gun ships of the period (the other was HMS Caesar). Foudroyant was
Category
Antique 19th Century English Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Oak
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
By Ludovico Caracciolo
Located in Roma, IT
collection of the British Museum).
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any
Category
1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
By Ludovico Caracciolo
Located in Roma, IT
, Rome, Francesco Bourlié, 1815 (now in the collection of the British Museum).
This artwork is shipped
Category
1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
“Three Mast, Square Rigger”
By John Ambrose RSMA
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting of a three mast, square rigger sailing ship by the British maritime artist
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Jerusalem Judaica Hasidic Rabbi, Dancing Oil Painting Bezalel Art School
By Jossi Stern
Located in Surfside, FL
shores of Palestine, then under the British Mandate, the British Navy intercepted the ship and declared
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grand Tour Bronze Bacchus
Located in Norwood, NJ
, sculptures, paintings and models.
These souvenirs would be shipped back to Britain where they would
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Grand Tour Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century historical genre oil painting of Napoleon’s return from Elba
By Robert Alexander Hillingford
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
the British and French guard ships were absent, he was able to escape from Portoferraio on a ship with
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
By Ludovico Caracciolo
Located in Roma, IT
in the Liber Veritatis, Rome, Francesco Bourlié, 1815 (now in the collection of the British Museum
Category
1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
By Ludovico Caracciolo
Located in Roma, IT
, collected in the Liber Veritatis, Rome, Francesco Bourlié, 1815 (now in the collection of the British Museum
Category
1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
By Ludovico Caracciolo
Located in Roma, IT
Bourlié, 1815 (now in the collection of the British Museum).
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under
Category
1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
By Ludovico Caracciolo
Located in Roma, IT
, Rome, Francesco Bourlié, 1815 (now in the collection of the British Museum).
This artwork is shipped
Category
1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Monumental US Presidents Resolute Partners Desk, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the English oak timbers of the British Arctic
Category
Vintage 1950s Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
First America
s Cup Winner - 1851
America
- Model Hull Table
Located in Hanover, MA
On August 22, 1851, the U.S.-built schooner "America" bested a fleet of Britain's finest ships in a
Category
20th Century American Sporting Art Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Historic Antique Civil War Walking Stick Cane of General Joe Hooker
Located in Dayton, OH
Revolutionary War. He commanded U.S. Navy ships stationed in France, led one failed assault on Britain, and
Category
Antique 19th Century American Classical Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Hardwood
British Ship
s Telegraph
Located in Carson City, NV
This is a British Ship's Telegraph circa 1910. It has a brass face and rings as the lever is pulled
Category
20th Century English Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood
$2,850
MONAMY
Located in Chicago, IL
MARINE OIL ON CANVAS, OF BRITISH SHIPS OFF THE COAST
in the manner of Peter Monamy 1670-1749
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$12,000
"H.M.S Bulwark" Oil Painting by E.ie Patourel
Located in Wiltshire, GB
"H.M.S Bulwark" oil painting by E.ie Patourel. A Maltese-school painting of a British ship of the
Category
Early 20th Century English Paintings
British Painter Robert Lloyd Ship Oil
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic ship oil by British painter Robert Lloyd. Already sold.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Fine English 19th Century Sailor
s Woolie Picture
Located in Concord, MA
A fine example of a 19th century wool work picture of a British ship decorated with Signal flags
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Early Victorian Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
Norman Septimus Boyce (British 1895-1962) Ships at Sea
Located in Sydney, NSW
Artist: Norman Septimus Boyce (British 1895-1962)
Title: Ships at Sea
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
BRITISH NELSON PERIOD Micro Ivory Ship Garnet Ring 1790c
Located in Austin, TX
waves with garnets surround. A similar ring can be found in The British Museum in London. Most likely
Category
British More Rings
Original Vintage Poster Heysham Belfast Royal Mail Ship British Railways Travel
Located in London, GB
issued by British Railways featuring a great image of a ship with smoking black and red funnels sailing
Category
1950s More Prints
Materials
Paper
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An assortment of British ships is available at 1stDibs. Each of these unique British ships was constructed with extraordinary care, often using fabric, wool and wood. British ships have been made for many years, and versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century. British ships are generally popular furniture pieces, but Folk Art, Victorian and Industrial styles are often sought at 1stDibs. There have been many well-made British ships over the years, but those made by Kelvin
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How Much are British Ships?
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