Here are 's top 5 London art exhibitions to see before Christmas (and beyond: all open til at least 31 December). Olafur Eliasson at or the moon exhibition at the National Maritime Museum...? Go while you have the chance! https://t.co/MQRLV8x9bG

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“The defeat of the Spanish Armada” by Philiippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg. Painted two centuries after the Battle of Gravelines that it depicts, it is over dramatic - but I do still like it.

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“A barque running before a gale” by Thomas Somerscales. Although a British artist, he did most of his painting in Chile.

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Back in my shop: Original Entdecker box art of a Sea serpent and Globe. https://t.co/4oQITtBDzk

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One of my favourite posters in BT's collection is this unusual view of the UK on its side to show the GPO coastal wireless radio stations chain, essential in 1938 for ship to shore maritime communications. Artist MacDonald (Max) Gill.

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"Fjords of Silence - East Greenland", photography by Örvar Thorgeirsson

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Captain John Macbride, renowned captain in the Age of Fighting Sail scored successes against both French and Dutch Privateers in 1780-81 while commanding HMS Bienfaisant & HMS Artois. Click: https://t.co/2Tv8uYVcnY

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20 novembre 1759 : bataille des cardinaux. En pleine guerre de Sept ans, l'escadre française de Brest (21 vaisseaux) commandée par le comte de Conflans est vaincue par l'escadre anglaise de l'amiral Hawke (23 vaisseaux). Peinture de Nicholas Pocock, National Maritime Museum.

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The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 20 November 1759.
Dominic Serres, 1779.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection

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Le Sovereign of the Seas est considéré comme le premier vaisseaux à trois ponts de l'histoire. Lancé en 1637 en Angleterre, il était si grand et si richement décoré qu'il fut surnommé "la huitième merveille du monde". Dessin de John Payne, National Maritime Museum, Londres.

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Les voyages d'Anna/Ulysse/Jules série débutée en 2005 et terminée en 2019

3 Romans graphique maritimes à découvrir au plus vite !

Par E. Lepage - R. Follet et S. Michel

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“Racing Home” by English artist Montague Dawson, showing the 19th century Tea clippers Chrysolite and Stornoway.

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Battle of Cesme at Night (1848) by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900).

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East India Extending
James Watt (b.1931)
Scottish Maritime Museum

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A beautiful day like today! A painting by Anthony Weitz of a serene scene where boats are seen berthed close to shore.

Info: https://t.co/SDr8WOlnV7

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in 1792 the Royal George capsized whilst undergoing repairs in the Solent with loss of over 800 lives. Account in Englefield’s ‘Description of the principal beauties, antiquities & geological phenomena of the Isle of Wight’. Memorial gardens in

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