Beach Paintings For Sale

Discover beach paintings for sale. Showcasing art from some of the most exciting beach painters active today, our collection is ever-evolving with. Browse today to find the beach painting for you, with a variety of styles and subjects available. Not sure where to start? Take a look at our popular impressionist and abstract beach paintings.

About the artists

To help guide you, we’ve have highlighted four of our best seascape artists Annabelle Shelton, Viacheslav Rogin and Corinne Natel.

A critical reimagining of British beaches can be found in Annabelle Shelton’s Beach Tide (2016) Shelton plays with colour and perspective as she packs bodies tight onto the curve of an invisible shore. We love the subverted shift of focus in Shelton’s work from landscape to human subject.

Viacheslav Rogin’s Cefalutano (2016) is a more muted mise-en-scene depicting the calm nature of two moored boats. Soft hues and a cropped composition stir feelings of peace and contentment. We believe Rogin’s work would appeal to more traditional tastes.

Finally, Corinne Natel’s Seashell #2 (2019) is like looking headfirst into a dazzling rockpool. Natel’s use of mixed media creates a detailed layering effect which mimics that of a thousand year old crystal or precious stone. The circular shape of the painting keeps the work modern and would compliment any well-designed space beautifully.

History of Beach Paintings

Beach paintings are a form of landscape art, a genre heavily concerned with capturing the beauty of nature. While landscape painting can be dated back to Ancient Greece, Egypt and 4th-century China, it only truly emerged as a respected form in the West during the Renaissance. The popularity of coastals scenes has caused beach paintings to splinter from the genre of landscape art.

Picasso, Monet and Van Gogh have all contributed to the subgenre of beach painting through their hypnotic capturing of the coastal. In the West, this form of painting is closely associated to the tradition of Romanticism which came to the fore early in the 15th century.

Despite now being considered a subsection of landscape art, many beach paintings originated from the marine art movement which similarly centres around the ocean. Marine art was a genre of painting which began in the Dutch Golden Age.

Such paintings featured large ships to demonstrate the naval and trade power of the Dutch. However, during the Romantic period, the image of the coast and the sea was reclaimed by landscapists, whose work began to exclude such vessels.

Development of style

Ancient seascapes

The Minoans were one of the first cultures to create landscape paintings void of any human subject. Inside the Minoan Palace in Crete there lives the famous fresco of a pod of dolphins, dated to be around 3,000 years old.

Around the 15th century, oceans were becoming a subject of interest for ancient communities. The Egyptians were depicting bodies of water and waves in their hieroglyphics as well as creating artistic impressions of oceanic deities like Sobek, the Nile God.

Marine Art

The van de Veldes, a father and son painting duo, first brought marine art from the Netherlands to Britain in 1673. This was the first instance Britain had taken notice of seascapes and beach paintings, despite the coast being a common theme in French Impressionism.

This style was characterised by brooding seas, darkened storms or behemothic boats boasting of power. During the age before photography, there was also a practical function to such paintings. Instead of charts, naval captains would navigate using illustrations of coastal views created by sailors. Many marine artists such as Nicholas Pocock or Thomas Buttersworth in fact began as sailors.

Marine art continued to flourish in Britain, eventually leading to the creation of the Society of Marine Artists in 1939. British artists like Norman Wilkinson painted dramatic scenes of battle during the war years and fervently celebrated the Royal Navy.

In the middle of the 1800s the beach was no longer seen purely as a site of trade or battle, but instead was reimagined as a playground. Artists such as John Constable painted the joy of sea-bathing in Brighton, and for the first time the coast was captured as a place of leisure.

Ships still featured in some beach paintings, however usually somewhere along a horizon while the fore is occupied by people, fish, seabirds or waves.

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    The Observer by Jack Hughes
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    The Observer by Jack Hughes

    The Observer

    Paintings - 100x150 cmRent for $225 /mo
    Kaleidoscope beach by Annabelle Shelton
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    Kaleidoscope beach by Annabelle Shelton

    Kaleidoscope beach

    Paintings - 20x40 cmRent for $90 /mo
    Drum 1, Water Zones Series by Day Bowman
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    Drum 1, Water Zones Series by Day Bowman

    Drum 1, Water Zones Series

    Paintings - 102x112 cm
    Algajola by Kelly Allison
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    Algajola by Kelly Allison

    Algajola

    Paintings - 60x80 cm
    Plage de Deauville by Sasha C. Bokobza
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    Plage de Deauville by Sasha C. Bokobza

    Plage de Deauville

    Paintings - 9x14 cm
    Bussaghia bouee bleue by Karine Bartoli
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    Bussaghia bouee bleue by Karine Bartoli

    Bussaghia bouee bleue

    Paintings - 50x61 cm
    Small Beach 06 by Annabelle Shelton
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    Small Beach 06 by Annabelle Shelton

    Small Beach 06

    Paintings - 14x10 cmRent for $36 /mo
    Le vélo rouge by Alice Roy
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    Le vélo rouge by Alice Roy

    Le vélo rouge

    Paintings - 80x80 cm
    Les amoureux by Anne Laurentia Rouxel
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    Les amoureux by Anne Laurentia Rouxel

    Les amoureux

    Paintings - 100x100 cm
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    Submerged by Diana Rosa

    Submerged

    Paintings - 81x163 cm
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    Scarista greens by DK Macleod

    Scarista greens

    Paintings - 50x100 cmRent for $145 /mo
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    Colour Me by James Moore

    Colour Me

    Paintings - 25x25 cmRent for $60 /mo
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    CAREFREE by db Waterman

    CAREFREE

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    PINK HORIZON by db Waterman

    PINK HORIZON

    Paintings - 130x85 cm
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    How deep is your love by Katharina Husslein

    How deep is your love

    Paintings - 80x120 cm
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    Plashy Place 3 by Day Bowman

    Plashy Place 3

    Paintings - 140x150 cmRent for $720 /mo
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    Nature 348 by Muriel Napoli

    Nature 348

    Paintings - 180x100 cm
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    Road to the Sea  by Tony Girolo

    Road to the Sea

    Paintings - 51x61 cm
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    Drum 4, Water Zones Series by Day Bowman

    Drum 4, Water Zones Series

    Paintings - 102x112 cm
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    RUNNING AT DUSK by db Waterman

    RUNNING AT DUSK

    Paintings - 50x50 cm
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    Adrift by Charlotte Roseberry

    Adrift

    Paintings - 50x50 cm
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    La vague by Norbert Pagé

    La vague

    Paintings - 60x60 cm
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    Evening Blues by Siri Knoepffler

    Evening Blues

    Paintings - 130x162 cm
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    Two Unknown by Glib Franko

    Two Unknown

    Paintings - 65x50 cm
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    Un petit vent by James MacKeown

    Un petit vent

    Paintings - 55x38 cm
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    High Light in Pismo  by Tony Girolo

    High Light in Pismo

    Paintings - 51x51 cm
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    Never alone by Diana Rosa

    Never alone

    Paintings - 76x122 cm
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    Palms [transformation] by Glib Franko

    Palms [transformation]

    Paintings - 210x170 cm
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    Cadaqués by Kelly Allison

    Cadaqués

    Paintings - 60x90 cm

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