Charles Brooking (c.1723-59) was an English painter of marine scenes.
Homer loved the ocean, and never tired of depicting marine scenes or the seashore.
Earlier Tanner painted marine scenes that showed man's struggle with the sea, but by 1895 he was creating mostly religious works.
Each shows a Paleozoic and a Mesozoic marine scene.
He treated a wide range of subjects - landscapes, marine scenes, animal life, and figure-pieces.
As the last framed depiction of a marine scene slipped by, he stopped before the paneled door through which Angela had disappeared.
He continued to complete portraits as a source of income but his main love was for landscapes and marine scenes.
Bayer painted and designed a total of fourteen scientifically accurate marine scenes.
He also painted market scenes, portraits, and marine and historical scenes.
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.