Many of his marine paintings from this early period survive, and are housed in the National Maritime Museum in London.

These portraits tend to follow his traditional practice of showing the same vessel in at least two positions on the same canvas.

He assumed his "likeness" of Paul Jones would form a bond with the viewers in his future home.

[5] In 1828, Salmon left Europe for the United States on the packet ship, "New York", arriving on New Years Day, 1829 and staying until 1840.

[1] During his lifetime, Salmon's work was very popular, and was collected by Bostonians Samuel Cabot, Robert Bennett Forbes, and John Newmarch Cushing.

A number of Italian views attributed to him have survived, the latest of which is dated 1845, the year of his last documented work.