Skipper Dora (1890–1980) 2020

Emma Stothard (b.1971)

Galvanised steel wire

The Fisherman's Regatta, Brittany, France 1943

David Macbeth Sutherland (1883–1973)

Oil on canvas

H 102.4 x W 127.7 cm

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Whitby Fishwife 2020

Emma Stothard (b.1971)

Galvanised steel wire

Fisherwife 2019

Emma Stothard (b.1971)

Coated wire

H 178 x W 70 x D 70 cm

Herring Girls 2020–2021

Emma Stothard (b.1971)

Galvanised steel wire

Gansey Knitter 2020

Emma Stothard (b.1971)

Galvanised wire & sheet steel

The Newlyn Exhibition 1979

Joan Gillchrest (1918–2008)

Oil on board

H 69.5 x W 57 cm

Newlyn Art Gallery

1979, oil on board by Joan Gillchrest (1918–2008)

Two Women by the Sea 2002–2003

Anthony Hatwell (1931–2013)

Oil on canvas

H 107 x W 92 cm

NHS Lothian Charity – Tonic Collection

Three Women by the Sea c.1938

Michael Rothenstein (1908–1993)

Oil on canvas

H 63 x W 74 cm

Jerwood Collection

The Trojan Women 1922–1924

Charles S. Ricketts (1866–1931)

Oil on canvas

H 109 x W 79.9 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

Seascape with Two Women

Francis William Synge Le Maistre (1859–1940)

Oil on board

H 120 x W 150 cm

St Brelade Parish Hall, Jersey

Bombed Women and Searchlights 1940

Clive Branson (1907–1944)

Oil on canvas

H 50.9 x W 61.2 cm

Tate

A Sea-Shore 1776

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714–1789)

Oil on copper

H 62.2 x W 85.1 cm

The National Gallery, London

Fresh from the Sea 1899

Robert Weir Allan (1851–1942)

Oil on canvas

H 123 x W 182.9 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

Moonbeams Dipping into the Sea 1910–1914

Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)

Oil on canvas

H 99 x W 70.8 cm

De Morgan Collection

Men Must Work and Women Must Weep 1877–1878

James Webb (1835–1895)

Oil on canvas

H 86.5 x W 127 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

The Women of Sorrento Drawing in the Boats 1870s

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829–1908)

Oil on panel

H 145 x W 201.6 cm

De Morgan Collection

Caught by the Tide 1860-90

Thomas Couture (1815–1879) (imitator of)

Oil on canvas

H 64.1 x W 80.6 cm

The National Gallery, London

Fisherfolk on the Coast of Normandy, France c.1824

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) (attributed to)

Oil on canvas

H 66 x W 99 cm

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

On the Shore

Jacques Eugène Feyen (1815–1908)

Oil on panel

H 16 x W 22.1 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

Representation of the 12 Months of the Year

unknown artist

Oil on wood panel

H 158 x W 158 cm

Royal Institution of Cornwall

Sunday Evening, St Ives 1950

Marjorie Mostyn (1893–1979)

Oil on canvas

H 49 x W 58 cm

Cornwall Council

Untitled 1960

Evelyn Farquharson (b.1938)

Oil on board

H 90.9 x W 121.3 cm

Art & Heritage Collections, Robert Gordon University

The Passing Hour 1904

William Shackleton (1872–1933)

Oil on canvas

H 93.7 x W 99.4 cm

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

Sailors Carousing 1802

Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1817)

Oil on panel

H 43.2 x W 58.4 cm

National Maritime Museum

Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker

Louise Walsh (b.1963)

Bronze

Waiting for the Cortina Boys 1985

Jock McFadyen (b.1950)

Oil on canvas

H 213.4 x W 213.4 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

The Beach at Trouville 1870

Claude Monet (1840–1926)

Oil on canvas

H 38 x W 46.5 cm

The National Gallery, London

On the Beach, Swanage 1901

Charles Conder (1868–1909)

Oil on canvas

H 40.6 x W 60.7 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

Silver Favourites c.1903

Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)

Oil on panel

H 69.1 x W 42.2 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

Bathers, 1926 1926

Thomas Saunders Nash (1891–1968)

Oil & pencil on paper

H 27.7 x W 28 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

Bathers at Swanage 1920s

Eustace Pain Elliott Nash (1886–1969)

Oil on canvas

H 35 x W 43 cm

Poole Museum Service

Les moulières, Villerville, France (The Mussel Gatherers, Villerville, France) c.1902

Robert McGregor (1847–1922)

Oil on canvas

H 142.5 x W 97.1 cm

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

The Errand 1871

Jozef Israëls (1824–1911)

Oil on canvas

H 48.7 x W 73.8 cm

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Teignmouth 1957

Douglas Lionel Mays (1900–1991)

Oil on canvas

H 91 x W 61 cm

National Railway Museum

Sirens 1930

Leonard John Fuller (1891–1973)

Oil on canvas

H 49 x W 58 cm

Cornwall Council

Summer Eclogue 1951

Robert Medley (1905–1994)

Oil on canvas

H 150 x W 170 cm

The University of York

On the Balcony 1898

John William Godward (1861–1922)

Oil on canvas

H 50.5 x W 76 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

The Return 1930

Joseph Edward Southall (1861–1944)

Tempera on fabric (possibly silk)

H 37.7 x W 58.4 cm

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

Hauling Cobles, Runswick Bay c.1930

Lionel Townsend Crawshaw (1864–1949)

Oil on canvas

H 88.9 x W 130.8 cm

Pannett Art Gallery

By the Shore c.1938

James Alexander Hay Hector (1868–1940)

Oil on canvas

H 46 x W 66.5 cm

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Neptune and Fishwives 1880

George Burn (active c.1868–1880) and A. M. Fowler

Stone

H 120 x W 280 cm

Winter, Leigh Beach 1984–1985

Anthony Farrell (b.1945)

Oil on canvas

H 117 x W 152 cm

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

A Bracing Day at the Seaside probably 1850s

John Leech (1817–1864)

Watercolour over pencil on paper

H 25.2 x W 35 cm

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Holidaymakers on Scarborough Beach c.1770

T. Ramsay (active from 1755) (attributed to)

Oil on canvas

H 61.5 x W 75 cm

Scarborough Museums and Galleries

The Herring Harvest c.1873

Archibald David Reid (1844–1908)

Oil on canvas

H 48.4 x W 94.2 cm

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Washerwomen on the Banks of the River Touques c.1883–1887

Eugène Louis Boudin (1824–1898)

Oil on panel

H 16.5 x W 21.6 cm

Glasgow Life Museums

The Folkestone Mermaid 2011

Cornelia Parker (b.1956)

Bronze

The Herring Girls 2017

Bill Cordaroy

Metal

Fisherwomen c.1954

Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)

Oil on canvas

H 118 x W 146 cm

Bradford Museums and Galleries

Spanish Fisherwomen

Evelyn Gibbs (1905–1991)

Oil on canvas

H 62 x W 74 cm

Goldsmiths, University of London

Fisherwomen on the Coast near Boulogne 1830

William Collins (1788–1847)

Oil on panel

H 63.5 x W 81.3 cm

Paintings Collection

Fisherwomen Waiting

Susan Beaulah (b.1943)

Acrylic on canvas

H 41.5 x W 41.5 cm

CW+

Fisherwomen at Portsoy early 20th C

George Murray (1875–1933)

Oil on canvas

H 32 x W 43 cm

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

Fisherwomen

William Shayer (1787–1879)

Oil on canvas

H 34 x W 29 cm

Atkinson Art Gallery Collection

Fisherwomen

Charles Murray (1894–1954)

Oil on board

H 64 x W 43 cm

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Fisherwomen of the Basque Provinces c.1875

Thomas Kent Pelham (c.1831–1907)

Oil on canvas

H 160.5 x W 220.2 cm

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

Fisherwomen at Scheveningen, Holland c.1875

Edith Hume (1843–1906)

Oil on panel

H 23.6 x W 35 cm

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Plougastel: Shrimp Fisherwomen 1871

Eugène Louis Boudin (1824–1898)

Oil on panel

H 23.8 x W 41.2 cm

National Galleries of Scotland

Two Fisherwomen 1828/1829

Richard Thomas Pentreath (1806–1869)

Watercolour on paper

H 21.8 x W 26 cm

Penlee House Gallery & Museum

Scottish Fisherwomen

Charles Murray (1894–1954)

Oil on plywood

H 27.8 x W 35.5 cm

Sheffield Museums

Between the Two my Heart is Balanced 1991

Lubaina Himid (b.1954)

Acrylic on canvas

H 121.8 x W 152.4 cm

Tate

Woman on Boat 1953

Reg Butler (1913–1981)

Bronze with black patina

H 58 cm

The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art

Christian Vlasto, a Canal Boat Woman 1944

Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)

Oil on canvas

H 75.5 x W 62.2 cm

IWM (Imperial War Museums)

The Boat 1960

Henryk Gotlib (1890–1966)

Oil on canvas

H 135.9 x W 101.6 cm

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

The Missing Boat 1877

Erskine Nicol (1825–1904)

Oil on canvas

H 51 x W 75 cm

The New Art Gallery Walsall

Woman in Foliage near River with Boats

Victor Elford (1911–2003)

Oil on board

H 78 x W 60 cm

The Box, Plymouth

A Fisherman and a Woman beside a Shore c.1900

Frederick Millard (1857–1937)

Oil on canvas

H 146 x W 204 cm

National Trust, The Causeway Hotel

A Declaration 1980–1988

Emma Bolland (b.1962)

Oil on canvas

H 154.6 x W 134 cm

Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage

Unloading Kelp Weed

William Henry Bartlett (1858–1932)

Oil on canvas

H 44.5 x W 70 cm

Gallery Oldham

Punch and Judy 1996

Brenda Brooks (b.1932)

Oil on canvas

H 87 x W 62 cm

Worthing Museum and Art Gallery

Nocturnal Scene 1957

Margarethe Garthe (1891–1976)

Acrylic on hardboard

H 128 x W 35 cm

Bromley Historic Collections

Boat with Woman 1978–2006

Lorna Graves (1947–2006)

Stoneware

H 4.2 cm

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

Ship of Fools 1986

Anthony Pilbro (b.1954)

Oil on canvas

H 98 x W 153 cm

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

'The Comedy of Errors', Act I, Scene 1, the Rescue of Aemilia from the Shipwreck 1794

Francis Wheatley (1747–1801)

Oil on canvas

H 78.5 x W 55.5 cm

Royal Shakespeare Company Collection

Lovers by the Sea

John Bellany (1942–2013)

Oil on canvas

H 152 x W 152 cm

University of Edinburgh

Shore Patrol

Joyce W. Cairns (b.1947)

Oil on canvas

H 121.5 x W 182.2 cm

University of Strathclyde

John Paton, Son & Co. Advertisement c.1890

unknown artist

Oil on canvas

H 56 x W 46 cm

Clackmannanshire Council

Fishwives by the Sea c.1875–1888

Bernardus Johannes Blommers (1845–1914)

Oil on panel

H 27.6 x W 37.8 cm

Glasgow Life Museums

Sorrow and Song 1893

Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922)

Oil on canvas

H 74 x W 125.1 cm

Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Summer's Day about 1879

Berthe Morisot (1841–1895)

Oil on canvas

H 45.7 x W 75.2 cm

The National Gallery, London

A Cornish Fishwife 1904

Flora Macdonald Reid (1860–1945)

Oil on canvas

H 61.4 x W 46.2 cm

Manchester Art Gallery

Study of a Fisherwoman 1884

Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947)

Oil on canvas board

H 15 x W 20 cm

Penlee House Gallery & Museum

Rest by the Sea

Alexander Mark Rossi (1840–1916)

Oil on panel

H 33 x W 52 cm

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Amore on the Rocks 1997

Robert Gordon

Oil on canvas

H 92 x W 91.7 cm

Art & Heritage Collections, Robert Gordon University

The Voyagers 1984

Shanti Thomas (b.1949)

Acrylic on paper

H 120.8 x W 90 cm

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

Graig Yr Hesg 1983

Paul Henry Green (b.1951)

Oil on canvas

H 68.7 x W 76.3 cm

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

Landing of the Belgian Refugees 1915

Fredo Franzoni (1878–1943)

Oil on canvas

H 212 x W 284 cm

Folkestone Museum

Le Rodeur: The Pulley 2017

Lubaina Himid (b.1954)

Acrylic on canvas

H 183 x W 244 cm

Government Art Collection

2017, acrylic on canvas by Lubaina Himid (b.1954)

Woman of the North Sea

John Bellany (1942–2013)

Oil on canvas

H 76.2 x W 51 cm

Fry Art Gallery

A Woman with a Dead Child Adrift at Sea on a Raft, Sunset

British School

Oil on canvas

H 37.5 x W 50.1 cm

Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Summer by the Sea

Robert Gemmell Hutchison (1855–1936)

Oil on canvas

H 26 x W 33 cm

Maggie's Glasgow

Burnham-on-Sea 1956

Alan Durman (1905–1963)

Oil on canvas

H 101.5 x W 64 cm

National Railway Museum

Fresh from the Sea c.1911

John McGhie (1867–1952)

Oil on canvas

H 101.6 x W 127 cm

Glasgow Life Museums

Essex Police, 1990 (Bradwell-on-Sea) 1990

Jack Bridge

Oil on board

H 37 x W 27 cm

Essex Police Museum

Woman and Child on the Foreshore

Dorothea Sharp (1874–1955)

Oil on canvas

H 61 x W 51 cm

Penlee House Gallery & Museum

After Lunch and Portrait Group 1910

Gerard Chowne (1875–1917)

Oil on canvas

H 101.5 x W 128.3 cm

Bradford Museums and Galleries

Seascape with Figures in a Boat (Lady Hamilton Waving Farewell to Nelson) 19th C

British (English) School

Oil on canvas

H 26.7 x W 33.7 cm

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

Shore Scene with Figures

Thomas Sword Good (1789–1872)

Oil on canvas

H 22.9 x W 30.5 cm

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

A Small Bunch of Eyes 1948

Oscar Mellor (1921–2005)

Oil on canvas

H 57 x W 36.5 cm

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

Ankledeep 1991

Lubaina Himid (b.1954)

Acrylic on canvas

H 152.4 x W 121.9 cm

Tate

1991, acrylic on canvas by Lubaina Himid (b.1954)

Hearts of Oak 1875

James Clarke Hook (1819–1907)

Oil on canvas

H 95.3 x W 143.5 cm

Nottingham City Museums & Galleries

The Fishing Fleet c.1900

Laura Knight (1877–1970)

Oil on canvas

H 123 x W 84 cm

Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council