5 Works – Marine art, J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner
Dutch Boats in a Gale, c. 1801

Oil on canvas
162.5 × 221 cm
National Gallery

Dutch boats are shown on course for collision in stormy weather. Dark clouds contribute to the sense of danger. The painting was commissioned by the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater as a companion piece to a 17th-century Dutch seascape in his possession. More on this painting

Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (1775–19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting…

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