Spreading Canvas

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

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The Brunswick and the Vengeur du Peuple at the Battle of the First of June, 1794 (1795), Nicholas Pocock. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

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Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

This is the first major exhibition to survey the tradition of marine painting that was inextricably linked to Britain’s rise to prominence as a maritime and imperial power, and to position the genre at the heart of the burgeoning British art world of the eighteenth century. Read more.