In this volume, the author examines the long-developed tradition of marine painting in England. The painters covered include Peter Monamy, Samuel Scott, John Cleveley the Elder, John and Robert Cleveley, Charles Brooking, Dominic Serres and John Thomas Serres, Francis Swaine, Francis Holman, Nicholas Pocock, William Anderson, Thomas Luny, Thomas Whitcombe, Robert Salmon, Samuel Atkins, Thomas Buttersworth, Philip James de Loutherbourg, William Daniell, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, A.W. Callcott, John Sell Cotman, Miles Edmund Cotman, A.V. Copley Fielding, R.P. Bonington, Charles Bentley, J.C. Schetky, W.J. Huggins, Joseph Walter, Clarkson Stanfield, John Ward, J.W. Carmichael, Geroge Chambers, Edward Duncan, William Joy and John Cantiloe Joy, Samuel Walters, E.W. Cooke, John Brett, Henry Moore, James McNeill Whistler, William McTaggart, W.L. Wyllie, and Philip Street.