Sentence examples for sea pieces from inspiring English sources

Some sea pieces dating from the 1780s show a new kind of realism, harking back to the Dutch seascape tradition.

When Turner was an up-and-coming artist, collectors loved the "sea pieces" of 17th-century Dutch marine painters such as Willem van de Velde.

"Isle of the Dead" ranks — with Mendelssohn's concert overture "The Hebrides" and Britten's "Four Sea Interludes" from the opera "Peter Grimes" — among the great sea pieces, and Mr. Slatkin's atmospheric reading was especially evocative of surging waves.

The best of his piano works are thought to be the suites Sea Pieces (1898) and Fireside Tales (1902) and the imaginative evocations of the American scene in the albums Woodland Sketches (1896) and New England Idylls (1902).

When it was first exhibited in London in 1808, this painting and another Turner view of the Thames were called "the finest sea pieces ever painted by a British artist".

The pianist Lora Tchekoratova takes over the Museum of Modern Art's outdoor festival of New York composers for a program that starts and ends with contrasted music from around a century ago: sea pieces by Edward MacDowell and rags by Scott Joplin.

FOR those who like to stump their musical friends with the old guess-the-composer game, a good puzzler would be "Sea Piece With Birds".

He reportedly owned Turner's The Bridgewater Sea Piece, one of the artist's finest seascapes, which has been on loan to the National Gallery for almost 30 years.

No, he bought The Bridgewater Sea Piece, one of JMW Turner's most spectacular masterpieces, and loaned it anonymously to the National Gallery.

It would not be any loss at all if the Bridgewater Sea Piece were to be sold elsewhere for an astronomical price.

The scattered rectangular outlines of "Sea Piece" are especially skeletal, but they also reveal the tilting structure underlying most of the other seascapes and landscapes.