(image source National Gallery, Washington, DC)
Ludolf Backhuysen
Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast, 1667

The violence of the sea, however, held a special attraction to the Romantic artist during the 19th century. A painting by the English painter, Joseph Mallard William Turner, shows a boat caught in a snowstorm.

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Joseph Mallard William Turner
Snowstorm at Sea: Steamboat of the Harbours Mouth, 1842