WLouis Auguste Laurent Aiguier, a French marine painter, was born at Toulon in 1819, and died in that town in 1865. There are examples of his work in the Museums of Toulon and Marseille.
WLouis-Augustin Auguin was a French landscape and seascape painter of the Saintonge school.
WÉmile-Marius Beaussier was a French painter; known primarily for maritime scenes and sunny landscapes.
WEugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".
WAlfred Casile (1848-1909) was a French landscape and marine painter.
WEugène Henri Alexandre Chigot was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was exposed to the ideas of the realist movement of the Barbizon School and to Impressionism. He settled in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais in an artists’ colony, later returning to Paris where he became a founder of the Salon d’Automne. An official military painter he painted a series of canvases in Calais and Nieuport recording the destruction caused by the First World War.
WJoseph Vincent François Courdouan was a French painter who specialized in maritime scenes.
WLéon Antoine Lucien Couturier was a French painter in the Naturalistic style, who specialized in maritime and military subjects.
WAdolphe-Hippolyte Couveley, originally Couvelet was a French painter and lithographer who specialized in maritime subjects.
WLouis-Philippe Crépin was a French marine painter. Together with Théodore Gudin, he was appointed as one of France's first two Peintres de la Marine in 1830.
WEugène-Baptiste Émile Marie Dauphin was a French marine artist and landscape painter.
WAuguste Delacroix, a French marine painter, was born on 27 January 1809 at Boulogne, and died there in 1868. He produced some elegant sea-pieces taken on the French and North African coasts, and also painted some African genre pictures.
WJean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814–1879) was a French painter, noted for his marine scenes and Orientalist works.
WFrançois-Pierre-Bernard Barry was a French painter who specialized in maritime scenes.
WJoseph Garibaldi was a French painter, specializing in cityscapes and coastal scenes.
WAmbroise Louis Garneray was a French corsair, painter and writer. He served under Robert Surcouf and Jean-Marie Dutertre, and was held as prisoner-of-war by the British for eight years after being captured before being repatriated at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, continuing his career as a painter until his death in 1857.
WHenriette Gudin was a French marine painter.
WEugène Louis Gabriel Isabey was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style.
WLudovic-Napoléon Lepic was a French artist, archaeologist and patron of the arts. He was styled as Vicomte Lepic until his father's death in 1875, when he succeeded to the title of Comte Lepic. He is best remembered today as a friend of Edgar Degas, who included him in some eleven paintings and pastels. He was among the original Impressionist group and later became a recognised marine painter.
WLuigi Loir was a French painter, illustrator and lithographer.
WAuguste Étienne François Mayer was a French painter.
WFrédéric Montenard was a French landscape and seascape painter.
WFrançois Nardi was a French painter of Italian heritage who specialized in maritime scenes.
WJules Achille Noël, born Louis Assez Noël was a French landscape and maritime painter who worked primarily in Brittany and Normandy.
WJean-Baptiste Olive was a French painter.
WNicolas-Marie Ozanne was a naval engineer and marine artist, author of a naval treatise and creator of a series of 60 views of the ports of France. His work witnesses to the French Navy of his time, particularly the Ponant (western) fleet.
WThe Roux Family of Marseilles was a family of hydrographers and marine painters that specialized in ship portraits. While many generations were involved in the hydrographic business, it was really only three generations who painted and became known for their skill and accuracy in portraying a ship, making their work seem more like a photograph than a painting. The painters in the family were Joseph, Ange-Joseph Antoine, Mathieu-Antoine, Ursule-Josephine, François Joseph Frédéric and François Geoffroi.
WAnge-Joseph Antoine Roux, "Antoine Roux" (1765–1835) was a French fine art painter who specialised in maritime painting, sometimes referred to as marine art.
WDominic Serres (1722–1793), also known as Dominic Serres the Elder, was a French-born painter strongly associated with the English school of painting, and with paintings with a naval or marine theme. Such were his connections with the English art world, that he became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and was later briefly its librarian.
WDirk Verdoorn, is a French peintre de la marine from the Netherlands. He spent his childhood on a barge at the confluence of the Waal, the Meuse and the Merwede, before settling in France. He worked as an art teacher and stage designer before beginning to sell his paintings in 1997.
WClaude-Joseph Vernet was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.