Mystic Seaport Museum or Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut is the largest maritime museum in the United States. It is notable for its collection of sailing ships and boats and for the re-creation of the crafts and fabric of an entire 19th-century seaport village. It consists of more than 60 historic buildings, most of them rare commercial structures moved to the 19-acre (0.077 km2) site and meticulously restored.
Claude-Joseph Vernet was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in 1840.
Henry Timken was an inventor and businessman who founded the Timken Roller Bearing Company, later called the Timken Company. His family migrated to the United States when he was 7 years old. He began his business career in the St. Louis region. His inventions of an improved carriage spring and an improved roller bearing brought him the money needed to create a company dedicated to the latter.
The Timken Museum of Art is a fine art museum, established in 1965 and located at 1500 El Prado in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, close to the San Diego Museum of Art.
Village Fête is an oil-on-canvas by French artist of the Baroque Claude Lorrain, painted in 1639 and given to Louis XIV in 1693 together with its companion Seaport at Sunset, by landscape architect and gardener André Le Nôtre. It is currently held and exhibited at the Louvre in Paris.
The Key West Bight, now known as the Key West Historic Seaport, is the site of a 200-year-old global maritime trade base in Key West, Florida, USA. A bend in the shoreline on the northwest side of the island created a bight, a wide bay and naturally protected harbor. Today, the Historic Seaport is the location of restaurants, bars, boutiques, art galleries, museums, hotels, boats, and watersports excursions.
The Temptation of Saint Jerome is an oil-on-panel painting created c.1521–1525 by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo. It is now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. It may relate to the same artist's The Temptation of Saint Anthony.
A Girl Receiving a Letter is a c. 1658 painting by Dutch artist Gabriël Metsu. The artwork is part of the collection of San Diego's Timken Museum of Art, in California.
Saint Bartholomew is a 1657 oil painting on canvas by Rembrandt. It is in the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, California, U.S.
Portrait of a Man is an oil an oak panel painting by Dutch artist Frans Hals, created in 1634. It is held at the Timken Museum of Art, in San Diego. It depicts an unidentified man of the upper classes, like it can be deduced by his clothing, with his right hand on his chest, and helding his thumb high.
The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket is an 1880 oil painting on canvas by the American artist Eastman Johnson. It is in the Timken Museum of Art, which acquired it in 1972.
Portrait of a Young Man in Armor is a c. 1620 oil painting on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens. it his held at the Timken Museum of Art, in San Diego.
Portrait of a Lady is a 1677 oil painting on canvas by Nicolaes Maes, created in 1677. It is held at the Timken Museum of Art, in San Diego.
An American Ship in Distress is an 1841 oil painting on canvas by Thomas Birch. It depicts an American sailing ship in a tempestuous sea.
Opus 24: Rome, from the Campagna, Sunset is an 1867 oil painting on canvas by Thomas Moran. It is one of 42 paintings Moran included on his "Opus List", a list of the paintings he viewed as his finest work.
Lovers in a Park is a 1758 oil painting on canvas by François Boucher. It is held at the Timken Museum of Art, in San Diego. It depicts a scene that takes place in a park with a luscious vegetation, where a couple of lovers is surprised by a female peasant who is passing by.
Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset is a pen and ink wash drawing by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. It was painted in 1610, and is now in the British Museum in London. The drawing is valuable in that it is the only drawing signed and dated by de Momper.
