Canvas Nautical Objects

A sleek 1920s Bermudian rigged 36 inch pond yacht with balanced main sail steering gear, painted hull and lead keel. The sails have age with some lovely character to them and the mod...

19th century oil painting of Swedish coastline with sail boat in moonlight. This artwork has small damages but has also kept its original patina and feeling trough the decades which ...

VINTAGE ANGLING ACCESSORIES All items come from the same angler in France. The collection consists of: One hand-woven and shaped wicker creel with a separate canvas bag attached...

Antique Robert J. Paisley boat life preserver buoy saftey ring featuring a hard foam core with a white painted canvas cover and hemp rope handles. "The Robert J. Paisley was built at West Superior, Wisconsin in 1901 as CHRISTOPHER for W.H. Meyer & Christopher H. Starke of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.. Renamed THOMAS BRITT 1924, J.E. SAVAGE in 1928 and then ROBERT J. PAISLEY in 1932. She was sold to Marine Salvage...

A handsome English pond yacht from the Edwardian era, handcrafted from wood and brass and featuring vintage cloth sails and fittings. Displayed on a sep...

A beautifully framed vintage maritime painting of a clipper ship at sea. Painted on canvas, this nautical piece depicts a large wood ship at sea. All ...

19th Century seascape with a side-wheel steamship, by B. Wallis, circa 1850, an oil on canvas American School seascape with a British paddlewheel steamer on the American coast; the ship is flying a British ensign at the stern, an American courtesy flag and house flags...

Leather & Canvas Cordrite or Ammunition Shot Bucket

Antique Impressionist Seascape with a Schooner and Sloops on a calm sea, dory in the foreground, under an early morning cloudy sky, signed A. or H. Merz in the lower left, a period o...

This oil on canvas painting depicts steam and sailing vessels, including Thames spritty barges, one carrying hay, a two-masted square-rigger, lighters, a small tug and a tramp steamer on the Thames in front of the Naval College at Greenwich. The reverse has a paper label stating ‘Top of the Tide off Greenwich, Fred. A. Winkfield, 49 Britannia Rd, Fulham, London.’ English, circa 1890. Exhibited: Autumn Exhibition, Manchester Art Gallery, 1890 Frederick Winkfield (1843-1923) was born in the Manchester area and was a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts for most of his career. As early as 1864, he won the second prize at the Manchester Mechanics Institution. According to a newspaper article on the Autumn Exhibition of 1890, ‘Top of the Tide’ was listed as one of the ‘chief pictures of the collection’. Winkfield was by this time resident in London but continued to exhibit in Manchester as well as at various London venues including the Royal Academy open exhibitions. See the ‘Catalogue of the Spread-Eagle Collection’, p.39, by James Taylor, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum, for a very similar view entitled ‘Greenwich Hospital from the Isle of Dogs’. The Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy. It was created in 1692 on the instructions of Queen Mary II, who had been inspired by the sight of wounded sailors returning from the Battle of La Hogue, as a counterpart to the Royal Hospital for army veterans at Chelsea. She ordered the King Charles wing of the palace, originally designed by architect John Webb for Charles II in 1664, to be remodelled by Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh...

Large antique oil painting on canvas of fishing Village coast, very well painting of marine scene, small boats and people working on the coast, fishing nets, and sailing ships on the...

This is a rare example of the type of container that was used on Royal Navy ships to carry cordite charges. These were constructed of cork covered in canvas or leather. This one h...