ABSTRACT
The dedication of marine painters to the study of nature was not unusual in nineteenth-century painting. It was part of the traditional training and craftsmanship of the professional painter. Landscape painters also spent many hours studying nature, and on their travels along the coastal regions they will have come across marine painters. However, it is remarkable how few painters chose marine painting, compared to the large number of working landscape painters. The main reason for this, of course, lies in the economic motives of painters to specialise in a genre. Landscapes were simply more in demand than marine paintings. 1
