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Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675–1734
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Velde, Willem van de the Younger, 1633–1707
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Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
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Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
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Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs
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Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
The Birth of Venus
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