From the 12th century onwards, seals of ports often featured a "ship portrait".

This adopts the low viewpoint typical of the ship portrait.

Accuracy in all the details of the ship above all was of the utmost importance in ship portraits.

Evans painted a number of ship portraits, both naval and merchant.

His ship portraits indicate he had a familiarity with sailing ships and an intimate knowledge of how they worked.

From an early age he took an interest in ships and received his first training from his father who painted ship portraits for a living.

O'Brien excelled at ship portraits and dramatic storm scenes.

He became very popular for the accuracy in his ship portraits and the way he made them seem alive.

A sea captain who turned to painting, he was a prolific painter of ship portraits and marine scenes from the early 1890s to the late 1920s.

There are numerous ship portraits of the vessel.