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 ...

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), ...

Not content to watch the storm from the safety of ... as mere “soapsuds and whitewash”, Turner responded bitterly, “I wonder what they think the sea is like! I wish they’d been in it!

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 ...

It’s tempting to cast Copley, Turner, and Jackson ... folded into the great tidal storm contained in the closed gallery just beyond. There, “Vertigo Sea” engulfs. A hundred or more feet ...