Abstract
During the nineteenth century, art was instrumental in forming fundamental expressions of Englishness. Through art, the country was presented as a seafaring nation and as an ‘island’, and yet this was created largely through images of the interior landscape, with little regard to maritime imagery. Furthermore, until now, researchers have not examined maritime art after 1850, and they posit that changes in technology led to the English turning away from the sea in art. Contrary to existing research, this chapter proposes that maritime art had continuing importance after 1850, and that the genre was able to capture ideas of Englishness that were impossible in landscape art. The chapter demonstrates that maritime art could connect the modern to the past in ways that landscape art could not.
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