In “Calais Pier, with French Poissards Preparing for Sea: An English Packet Arriving” (1803), painted after Turner’s first trip abroad, the Union Jack flutters from a storm-tossed British ...

JMW Turner was a bit of an eccentric, as well as a recluse, but on the rare occasion that he did attend a party or gathering, he always had interesting stories to tell. One of his most intriguing ...

"This is a great whirling vortex of sea, snow and sky articulated by Turner's gestural, fluid handling. A steamboat struggles in the eye of the storm, sending up distress flares. A depiction of ...

Turner voluntarily put himself through a similar ordeal. Determined to witness a snowstorm at sea from the inside ... The painting that resulted, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842), ...