The Ferens Art Gallery has an important and unique collection of maritime painting, including works by Richard Parkes Bonington, John Ward and William Frederick Settle, the latter two representatives of the important nineteenth century Hull School of Marine Painting. The gallery also includes Herbert Draper’s impressive canvas, Ulysses and the Sirens (1909) which is requested on loan by museums and galleries around the world.
The Ferens also have seascapes and maritime work by modern and contemporary artists like Keith Vaughan, Spencer Tunick and Anya Gallaccio.
Composition 1936
John Amhurst Selby-Bigge (1892–1973)
Oil on obeche (?) panel
H 38 x W 46 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Dutch Sailing Boats in a Rough Sea 1695
Ludolf Backhuysen I (1630–1708)
Oil on canvas
H 47.8 x W 57.9 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Hull Whalers in the Arctic 1822
Thomas Binks (1799–1852)
Oil on oak panel
H 48 x W 63.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
A Squadron Going to Windward in a Gale
Charles Brooking (1723–1759)
Oil on canvas
H 87 x W 126.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking North East from the Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto Bridge c.1724
Canaletto (1697–1768)
Oil on canvas
H 66.6 x W 97.6 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Dark Sea (The Wave) 1946
Michael Ayrton (1921–1975)
Oil on plywood
H 51 x W 68.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Joachim Beuckelaer (c.1533–1574)
Oil on canvas
H 141 x W 206.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Cutting Out the 'Hermione' 1876
Henry Dawson (1811–1878)
Oil on canvas
H 107.5 x W 91.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
North Sea Incident 1999
Jack Chesterman (1938–2022)
Acrylic on canvas
H 244 x W 305 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Sailing Vessels, William Wright Dock, Hull 1992
David Jan Curtis (b.1948)
Oil on hardboard
H 44.5 x W 54.6 cm
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Ulysses and the Sirens c.1909
Herbert James Draper (1864–1920)
Oil on canvas
H 177 x W 213.5 cm
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Marine Harvest 1949
Richard Ernst Eurich (1903–1992)
Oil on canvas
H 55.9 x W 60.9 cm
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Blue Seascape 1957
Donald Hamilton Fraser (1929–2009)
Oil on canvas
H 120 x W 90 cm
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Night Crossing 1966
George Fullard (1923–1973)
Wood, metal & paint
H 55.2 x W 52 x D 12.7 cm
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Princes Dock, Hull 1882 (?)
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
Oil on panel
H 30.5 x W 49.5 cm
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The Loss of a Merchantman 1831
Francis Hustwick (1797–1865)
Oil on panel
H 33 x W 46 cm
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Captain Joseph Boulderson (1764–1828)
Arthur William Devis (1762–1822)
Oil on canvas
H 125 x W 99 cm
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Lobster Boats c.1933
Eric Hesketh Hubbard (1892–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 44.5 x W 59 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
The Press Gang 1858
Alexander Johnston (1815–1891)
Oil on canvas
H 138.4 x W 123.2 cm
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Westminster Bridge, London, Evening
William James (active 1754–1771)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 96.5 cm
Ferens Art Gallery
Anya Gallaccio (b. Glasgow 1963)
Large photograph print of the original installation of Two Sisters. Anya Gallaccio (b. Glasgow 1963)
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