Arthur Quartley was an American painter well-known for his marine seascapes.

Quartley was by birth in Paris and lived there til he completes the age of twelve, when his relatives enthused to Baltimore, Maryland. He learned drawing along with his father C.G. Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father was alleged to have demand two drawings per week from the young boy.

In 1862 Quartley and his family founded a devise firm in Baltimore. The firm Emmart and Quartley was considered as the best decorating company in the city. He held a thriving show of maritime paintings at the studio of Norval H. Busey in Baltimore.

To track his painting more seriously, Quartley went to New York City in 1875. New York at that point had turn out to be a leading center for prominent painters. From there he portrayed seascapes of Long Island bays, New York Port, the New Hampshire Isle of Shoals, and Naragansett Bay in Rhode islet.