Ocean painting

21 seascapes: storms, waves and ships at sea, coasts and calm bays. By Ivan Aivazovsky, Théodore Gudin and others, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Tokyo National Museum and other collections.

Desktop background from a painting: a small sailboat tilting in golden light amid rolling stormy waves, glowing foam and a dramatic sky — Storm on the Sea of Azov

Ivan Aivazovsky

1980 × 3520TS·0476
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: a small boat tossed by a huge wave beneath a rocky cliff, two figures watching from the clifftop, a shaft of light breaking through storm clouds — Storm at Cape Aya

Ivan Aivazovsky

3081 × 5478TS·0474
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: tall bank of grey-white cloud over a pale sea horizon, a thin strip of lit beach and dark heathland filling the foreground — Villerville Seen from Le Ratier

Charles François Daubigny

1598 × 2841TS·0236
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: warships firing cannon at close range in a smoke-filled sea battle, torn sails and tangled rigging against a stormy sky — Combat du Cap Lézard

Théodore Gudin

1359 × 2416TS·0418
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Desktop background from a painting: a pale moon glowing through sea mist over a rocky coastline, a lighthouse on the cliff at left, men pushing a boat onto the beach beside a beached wreck — View of a Rocky Coast by Moonlight

Théodore Gudin

1676 × 2980TS·0408
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: chalk arch and needle above a shingle beach with fishing boats drawn up and a green sea — The Cliff at Étretat

Gustave Courbet

2160 × 3840TS·0352
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: dark red rock arch over emerald water framing a hazy Mediterranean bay, a tall ship in the distance, scrub-covered cliffs and misty mountains — Natural Bridge, Sorrento

William Stanley Haseltine

2040 × 3626TS·0046
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Dark moody vertical iPhone background from a painting: enormous jagged dark rock spire rising from a still teal sea, pink hazy sky, a small rowboat with figures, a sailing ship tiny on the horizon — Capri

William Stanley Haseltine

1748 × 3108TS·0054
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: pale surf breaking across a green-grey sea under a near-black storm sky, a small sailing ship far off at the horizon on the right — Sea in Stormy Weather

Théodore Gudin

2160 × 3840TS·0412
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Desktop background from a painting: shipwreck survivors clinging to a floating mast amid towering green waves, golden sunrise light breaking through the clearing storm — The Ninth Wave

Ivan Aivazovsky

1879 × 3340TS·0468
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Dark moody desktop background from a print: two tall-masted sailing ships crowded close together on a stormy night sea, moonlight breaking through dark clouds, sailors crossing between the vessels during a rescue — Captain Aubert Saving the Crew of the Lydia

Théodore Gudin

1396 × 2481TS·0407
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: a steep dark green wave cresting against a stormy sky, a broken mast tilting at the right edge of the water — Waves on the High Seas

Ivan Aivazovsky

2160 × 3840TS·0475
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: two crowded rowboats pulling through pale green storm swell, oars out, a dark hull half lost in spray behind them, heavy grey cloud filling the sky above — Storm at Sea

Ivan Aivazovsky

2143 × 3809TS·0467
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Vertical iPhone background from a painting: rocky New England shoreline with autumn trees, calm grey-blue bay, distant sailboats, muted ochre and grey palette — View near Newport

John Frederick Kensett

1569 × 2790TS·0057
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Japan painting phone wallpaper: Seascape by Kaji Tameya, 1883 — Seascape

Kaji Tameya (?-1894)

1688 × 3000TS·0363
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Japan painting phone wallpaper: Torpedoes by Hashimoto Gaho, Meiji period, 19th century — Torpedoes

Hashimoto Gaho (1835-1908)

1114 × 1980TS·0362
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Dark moody desktop background from a painting: a small boat carrying an elderly figure adrift on dark water, a glowing angel pointing toward a break of golden light in heavy storm clouds — The Voyage of Life: Old Age

Thomas Cole

1930 × 3431TS·0466
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Japan painting phone wallpaper: Pilgrimage to Sumiyoshi Shrine by Kobayashi Kokei, 1913 — Pilgrimage to Sumiyoshi Shrine

Kobayashi Kokei (1883-1957)

1229 × 2185TS·0370
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iPhone wallpaper from a painting: wide pale bay with sailing boats and a red rowing boat in front below hills in haze — Haverstraw Bay

Sanford Robinson Gifford

2143 × 3810TS·0357
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Japan painting phone wallpaper: Eros and Psyche by Ragusa Tama, Meiji era, 20th century — Eros and Psyche

Ragusa Tama (1861-1939)

1570 × 2791TS·0364
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Japan painting phone wallpaper: Seashore, Meiji period, 19th century — Seashore

1185 × 2106TS·0361
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All 21 are phone wallpapers, 4 of them at 2160 × 3840 or larger. Free to download and set as your background, no account needed.

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