Seascape Paintings For Sale

Browse our collection of seascape paintings for sale or available to rent online today. We’re home to some of the most exciting contemporary seascape painters who are producing energetic, striking portraits of the sea in a variety of styles, including impressionistic seascapes and figurative seascapes.

About the artists

Alison Johnson’s piece, Symbiosis (2024), echoes J. M. W. Turner’s awe-inspiring portraits of the sea. The landscape artist captures a powerful, curling wave which sweeps across the canvas. The colours alternate between a dark, atmospheric palette and vibrant, fiery hues. This ominous undercurrent is continued in Catch my Breath (2023), which simultaneously nods to the eerie calm of the British coastline.

Kazakhstani artist Yuliya Martynova also finds calm in seascapes. But her watercolours are serene and peaceful, unlike Johnson’s oils. Instead, in Blue Bay she paints a portrait of multi-tonal blue, punctuated only by two distant yachts. This is not Turner’s sea, placing man in mortal danger, but the kind holidaymakers dream about; infused with a sense of escapism.

Martynova’s seascapes are dripping in blue, whereas Nadia Day finds calm in the coast’s colourlessness on a grey day. In her piece Wonder, that greyness is animated by her choppy brushstrokes and the glinting reflection of a man and his son looking out to sea.

About Seascape Paintings

Although the art form has been documented as far back as Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece, it was during the 17th century’s Dutch Golden Age that seascapes emerged as their own distinctive style. Dutch seascape painters such as Jan Porcellis and Jan van de Cappelle responded to an era where the Dutch navy was at the peak of its glory – making money from a booming sea trade in between battles with the British Navy – by using maritime art to depict their country’s grand Tall Ships, navigating an unpredictable ocean, cloaked in sea spray and atmosphere.

Artists’ obsession with sea scenes that pitted tiny sailors against towering waves continued through the 18th century and into the Romantic Age. JMW Turner was more obsessed than most, painting around 1,000 seascapes in his lifetime. For him, the ocean became a way to examine themes such as The Sublime and nature’s power over mankind. The Romantic painter would use light, dark and colour to seesaw between visions of the ocean as a tranquil place punctuated by pink-hued horizons and a black and violent backdrop onto which human strength – particularly the strength of fishermen – met its limits.

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    Le voilier blanc by Alice Roy
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    Le voilier blanc by Alice Roy
    Le voilier blanc
    Paintings - 80x80 cm
    Night Sea by Freya Purdue
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    Night Sea by Freya Purdue
    Night Sea
    Paintings - 120x152 cm
    The Sea The Sea by Claire Cansick
    The Sea The Sea
    Paintings - 122x304 cmRent for €585 /mo
    Crashing Seas at Dusk by Trudy Montgomery
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    Crashing Seas at Dusk by Trudy Montgomery
    Crashing Seas at Dusk
    Paintings - 38x51 cmRent for €120 /mo
    Low tide  by Barry Wilson
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    Low tide  by Barry Wilson
    Low tide
    Paintings - 100x120 cmRent for €325 /mo
    Hug the Coast by Kelly Allison
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    Hug the Coast by Kelly Allison
    Hug the Coast
    Paintings - 25x25 cm
    Fortress Series 8 by Day Bowman
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    Fortress Series 8 by Day Bowman
    Fortress Series 8
    Paintings - 140x150 cmRent for €650 /mo
    The Departing Day by Paul Bennett
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    The Departing Day by Paul Bennett
    The Departing Day
    Paintings - 50x120 cm
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    Make Waves 3 by Kelly Allison
    Make Waves 3
    Paintings - 27x22 cm
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    Morning Sea by Nicolas Ruelle
    Morning Sea
    Paintings - 65x100 cm
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    Between the sea and the sky  by Barry Wilson
    Between the sea and the sky
    Paintings - 90x90 cmRent for €210 /mo
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    The Immigrants # 2 by Fion Gunn
    The Immigrants # 2
    Paintings - 102x102 cmRent for €485 /mo
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    Fragility and endurance II by Gina Parr
    Fragility and endurance II
    Paintings - 80x80 cmRent for €240 /mo
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    Mer étoilée by Virginie Bastié
    Mer étoilée
    Paintings - 97x130 cm
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    St Peter Port, Guernsey by Frank Creber
    St Peter Port, Guernsey
    Paintings - 76x86 cmRent for €100 /mo
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    Odysseus I by Sandrine Lemoigne
    Odysseus I
    Paintings - 73x54 cm
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    Selkie Selfie by Claire Cansick
    Selkie Selfie
    Paintings - 51x61 cmRent for €105 /mo
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    Upon the Restless Shores by Paul Bennett
    Upon the Restless Shores
    Paintings - 100x100 cm
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    La plage de Palus.  by James MacKeown
    La plage de Palus.
    Paintings - 27x22 cm
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    Eclats d'écume 121 by Joelle Kem Lika
    Eclats d'écume 121
    Paintings - 130x180 cm
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    Low Tides by Paul Bennett
    Low Tides
    Paintings - 100x100 cmRent for €230 /mo
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    Sunset Colors No. 2 by Mila Weis
    Sunset Colors No. 2
    Paintings - 60x60 cm
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    SS White Swan Shipwreck Gorleston by Claire Cansick
    SS White Swan Shipwreck Gorleston
    Paintings - 91x122 cmRent for €170 /mo
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    Le rocher by Virginie Bastié
    Le rocher
    Paintings - 130x97 cm
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    Orange on the coast by Marianne Quinzin
    Orange on the coast
    Paintings - 61x50 cm
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    Sea Battle 11 by Philip Maltman
    Sea Battle 11
    Paintings - 76x121 cmRent for €505 /mo
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    Make Waves 2 by Kelly Allison
    Make Waves 2
    Paintings - 27x22 cm
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    Ile perdue by Viviane Beaufumé
    Ile perdue
    Paintings - 80x80 cm
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    Buoy, 2024 by Adam Reid
    Buoy, 2024
    Paintings - 80x60 cmRent for €135 /mo
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