Art, literature & history
Sailboats on Southampton River
1819
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 15.6 x 22.3 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1986.72.10
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Linnell. Sailboats on Southampton River. John Linnell; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Linnell,_Sailboats_on_Southampton_River,_1819,_NGA_69401.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sailboats on Southampton River — John Linnell. 1819.
Medium: watercolor on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 15.6 x 22.3 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1986.72.10. Paul Mellon Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.