A Turner Contemporary spokesperson said the painting was a "rare opportunity ... "captures the raw energy of a stormy sea viewed safely from the shore", according Turner Contemporary.

"This is a great whirling vortex of sea ... This painting was owned by John Ruskin, Turner's great supporter." "An early masterpiece. The sun momentarily breaks through dark and stormy clouds ...

In summer it's easy to appreciate a life by the sea in a town like Salem. The new exhibition of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s maritime paintings at The Peabody Essex Museum gives us even more ...

Opening on 22 November 2013, Turner & the Sea at the National Maritime Museum is the first full-scale examination of JMW Turner’s lifelong fascination with the sea. Dramatic, contemplative ...

But when we stopped by last week, visitors were streaming in the moment the doors opened to see some electrifying paintings of the sea by one of Britain's most famous painters: J.M.W. Turner.

Very few paintings ... artwork. Turner’s relationship to British history, and how his works forged national and cultural identity, is the intriguing current of Turner and the Sea, the National ...

The critics pronounce the pictures as even finer specimens of Turner's best art than any heretofore exhibited. They include a number of sea views with wonderful light effects. While some of the ...

"This is a great whirling vortex of sea ... This painting was owned by John Ruskin, Turner's great supporter." "An early masterpiece. The sun momentarily breaks through dark and stormy clouds ...