Amongst a collection of over 4,000 oil paintings the 20th Century collection of the National Maritime Museum significantly features ships in battle and other First and Second World War scenes, notably in a number of artworks by Charles Pears, Norman Wilkinson and John Everett, represented in over 1,000 artworks. However, other aspects of maritime and related matters outside of war feature in the collection holdings, including a St Ives painting by Alfred Wallis, Deptford Power Station by L.S. Lowry and a mid 1920s French harbour scene by Edward Wadsworth.
Artists featured in this Curation:
Anthony Amies (1945–2000),
W. Geoffrey Bannister,
Stephen Bone (1904–1958),
Arthur Royce Bradbury (1892–1977),
Arthur James Wetherall Burgess (1879–1957),
Brenda Bury,
Herbert E. Butler (1861–1931),
Henry Marvell Carr (1894–1970),
Jesse Dale Cast (1900–1976),
Anne Christopherson (1921–2013),
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Charles David Cobb (1921–2014), Peter Coker (1926–2004), Leslie Cole (1910–1976), John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994), Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857–1940), Frank Thomas Copnall (1870–1949), Alma Claude Burlton Cull (1880–1931), Charles Ernest Cundall (1890–1971), Anthony Devas (1911–1958), William D. Dring (1904–1990), Richard Ernst Eurich (1903–1992), John Everett (1876–1949), William Russell Flint (1880–1969), John Fraser (1858–1927), Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987), Ruth Hurle (1917–2004), Peter Jamieson (b.1945), Rodney Johnson (b.1920), Peter Knox (b.1942), Henry Lamb (1883–1960), Rowland Langmaid (1897–1956), Cecil Constant Philip Lawson (1880–1967), Reginald James Lloyd (1926–2020), Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976), Ambrose McEvoy (1877–1927), Paul Ayshford Methuen (1886–1974), Walter Thomas Monnington (1902–1976), John Munday (1924–2012), Humphrey Ocean (b.1951), William Orpen (1878–1931), Charles Pears (1873–1958), John Edgar Platt (1886–1967), Albert Richards (1919–1945), Rupert Shephard (1909–1992), Ellis Silas (1885–1972), William Eric Thorp (1901–1993), Charles Edward Turner (1883–1965), Albert Wyndham Tusting (1918–1993), Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889–1949), Arthur Douglas Wales-Smith (1888–1966), Alfred Wallis (1855–1942), Norman Wilkinson (1878–1971), John Wonnacott (b.1940) and
John Worsley (1919–2000)
54 artworks
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Seascape, Gorleston, Norfolk 1978
Anthony Amies (1945–2000)
Oil on canvas
H 121.9 x W 137 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Convoy of Troopships Leaving Gibraltar, August 1943 after 1943
W. Geoffrey Bannister
Oil on canvas
H 48 x W 68.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
S-Class Submarine:The Wardroom and Forward Mess Deck Seen through the Davis Escape Chamber 1945
Stephen Bone (1904–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 76 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Fo'c'sle of the Barquentine 'Waterwitch' 1931
Arthur Royce Bradbury (1892–1977)
Oil on board
H 19.9 x W 26 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
The 'Rangitata' and Three London Tugs c.1945–1948
Arthur James Wetherall Burgess (1879–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 101.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Frank George Griffith Carr (1903–1991), Second Director of the National Maritime Museum (1947–1966) 1969
Brenda Bury
Oil on canvas
H 101.5 x W 71 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Hauling in the Lobster Pot 1903
Herbert E. Butler (1861–1931)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 91.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Henry Marvell Carr (1894–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 127.4 x W 91.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© National Maritime Museum. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
A Jetty at Greenwich probably 1938
Jesse Dale Cast (1900–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 33.2 x W 62.4 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Shipbuilding at Greenwich c.1970
Anne Christopherson (1921–2013)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 76 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Scrubbing the Yacht 'Golden Vanity' 20th C
Charles David Cobb (1921–2014)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 76 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© National Maritime Museum. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Rain, Rainbow and Stormy Seas 1974
Peter Coker (1926–2004)
Oil on canvas
H 102.2 x W 204 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Leslie Cole (1910–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 91.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Fête (fete) on 14th July 1942. Put on by Prisoners at Méchéria (Mecheria) 1942
John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
Oil on canvas
H 36 x W 47 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Admiral David Beatty (1871–1936), 1st Earl Beatty 1920
Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857–1940)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
The Steamship 'Lusitania' in the Mersey, November 1907 1907
Frank Thomas Copnall (1870–1949)
Oil on leathercloth
H 53.7 x W 79.3 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Arrival of the Fleet for the Coronation Review 1912
Alma Claude Burlton Cull (1880–1931)
Oil on canvas
H 97 x W 188 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Libertymen at Lyness 1942
Charles Ernest Cundall (1890–1971)
Oil on canvas
H 92 x W 132 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Rear Admiral M. C. Morgan-Giles (1914–2013) 1945
Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 63.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Lieutenant Commander Harry John Hall c.1942–1945
William D. Dring (1904–1990)
Oil on canvas
H 101.5 x W 51 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© crown copyright. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Whitby in Wartime mid-20th C
Richard Ernst Eurich (1903–1992)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 76 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
A Convoy, 1918 1918
John Everett (1876–1949)
Oil on canvas
H 79.6 x W 95.2 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Rear Admiral Sir Murray Sueter (1872–1960) 1928
William Russell Flint (1880–1969)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 51 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
A Zeppelin Raid, 8 October 1915 c.1915–1918
John Fraser (1858–1927)
Oil on canvas
H 45.7 x W 30.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Big Ben the Bargee 1943
Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)
Oil on canvas
H 89 x W 101.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
A Hunt Class Destroyer in Dry Dock
Ruth Hurle (1917–2004)
Oil on canvas
H 31.7 x W 35.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
The Docks at Great Yarmouth: Evening late 20th C
Peter Jamieson (b.1945)
Oil on hardboard
H 20.5 x W 25.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
© the artist. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Deck Scene on Board a Trawler 1972
Peter Knox (b.1942)
Oil on canvas
H 38.1 x W 45.7 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Eleven O'clock in the Forecastle 1940
Henry Lamb (1883–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 60.9 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Landing at Sicily, 10 July 1943 after 1943
Rowland Langmaid (1897–1956)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 101.6 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Albert Bridge (?) During the Peace Pageant River Procession, 4 August 1919 c.1919
Cecil Constant Philip Lawson (1880–1967)
Oil on panel
H 31 x W 23 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Stair Hole 1974
Reginald James Lloyd (1926–2020)
Oil on board
H 37 x W 53.6 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© The Estate of L.S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
View of Deptford Power Station from Greenwich 1959
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 76.2 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Lieutenant William Edward Sanders (1883–1917), VC, DSO, RNR c.1918
Ambrose McEvoy (1877–1927)
Oil on canvas
H 50.5 x W 40.3 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© trustees of the Corsham estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Paul Ayshford Methuen (1886–1974)
Oil on canvas on board
H 40.5 x W 55.8 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe (1859–1935), 1st Earl Jellicoe 1933
Walter Thomas Monnington (1902–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 127 x W 101.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
HMS 'Calliope' in the Tyne, 1950
John Munday (1924–2012)
Oil on board
H 45.6 x W 54.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© National Maritime Museum. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
The First of England 1998
Humphrey Ocean (b.1951)
Acrylic on canvas
H 249 x W 310 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Herbert Barnard John Everett (1877–1949) c.1900
William Orpen (1878–1931)
Oil on canvas
H 96.5 x W 91.5 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Convoy to Russia c.1944–1945
Charles Pears (1873–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 81.3 x W 127 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Convoy Arriving off St Anthony's Lighthouse, Falmouth 1942
John Edgar Platt (1886–1967)
Oil on canvas
H 91.3 x W 71 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
View of Le Havre c.1944
Albert Richards (1919–1945)
Oil on canvas
H 101.5 x W 127 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Commander Sir George Binney (1900–1972), RNVR 1947
Rupert Shephard (1909–1992)
Oil on canvas
H 76.1 x W 63.4 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist's estate. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
HMS 'Wave' Ashore at St Ives, 1952 1952
Ellis Silas (1885–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 50.3 x W 65 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Sunrise on the River Orwell, Pin Mill
William Eric Thorp (1901–1993)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 61 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Dockyard Scene: HMS 'Vanguard' in Dry-Dock c.1946–1950
Charles Edward Turner (1883–1965)
Oil on canvas
H 40.6 x W 50.8 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
A Trawler in a Gale at Night 1967
Albert Wyndham Tusting (1918–1993)
Oil on board
H 60.9 x W 81.3 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889–1949)
Egg tempera on canvas on panel
H 63.6 x W 88.9 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the copyright holder. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Sir Dudley Pound (1877–1943) early 20th C–mid-20th C
Arthur Douglas Wales-Smith (1888–1966)
Oil on canvas
H 126.8 x W 102.4 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
St Ives Harbour, Cornwall mid-20th C
Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)
Oil with graphite on card on board
H 38.1 x W 43.9 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© Norman Wilkinson Estate. All rights reserved, DACS 2025. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
The Second Battle of Narvik, 13 April 1940 mid-20th C
Norman Wilkinson (1878–1971)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 101.6 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© the artist. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Winter Afternoon: Container Ships off Felixstowe, 1993–1994 late 1990s
John Wonnacott (b.1940)
Oil on canvas
H 151.9 x W 221 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
© crown copyright. Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Naval Officers Room at Marlag O, Prisoner of War Camp mid-20th C
John Worsley (1919–2000)
Oil on canvas
H 610 x W 75 cm
Royal Museums Greenwich
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