Winslow Homer
(1836 - 1910)

Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer

East Hampton Beach, Long Island
1874
Oil on canvas
25.8 × 55.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, 
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/157923-east-hampton-beach-long-island

William Merritt Chase
(1849 - 1916)
 

William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later became the Parsons School of Design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Merritt_Chase

Idle Hours
1894
Oil on canvas
90 x 64 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/idle-hours-19821

William Henry Margetson
(1861 - 1940)
 

William Henry Margetson RI was a British painter and illustrator, mainly known for his aesthetic portraits of women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Margetson

The sea hath its pearls
1897
Oil on canvas 
132 cm diam.
Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/705/

Thomas Roberts 
(1856 - 1931)
 

Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Roberts

Holiday sketch at Coogee
1888
Oil on canvas
40 × 55.9 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/9078/

 Rupert Bunny
(1864 - 1947)
 

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, he achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris. He gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 with his Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria. The French state acquired 13 of his works for the Musée du Luxembourg and regional collections. He was a "sumptuous colourist and splendidly erudite painter of ideal themes, and the creator of the most ambitious Salon paintings produced by an Australian."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Bunny

Sea idyll
1891
Oil on canvas
100.5 x 161.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/4205/

 Rosa Bonheur
(1822 - 1899)
 

Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Bonheur

Sheep by the Sea
1865
Oil on cradled panel
32.3 x 45.7 cm 
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
https://nmwa.org/art/collection/sheep-sea/

 Richard Beavis
(1824 - 1896)

Very little is known about the English painter Richard Beavis. We know that he was born in Exmouth in 1824 and moved to London in 1846 to study at the academy in Somerset House. From 1852, his work was admitted to the prestigious annual exhibition of the Royal Academy.

https://scheveningentoenennu.nl/strandschilders/18001900AL/beavis/3beavis/index.html

Gathering seaweed
mid-to-late 19th Century
Watercolour
46 x 33 cm
Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/36055?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c