Famous Storm at Sea Paintings
Nothing tests a painter like a storm at sea. These hand-painted oil reproductions capture towering waves, torn sails and dark skies from the great marine painters.
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About Famous Storm at Sea Paintings
Rembrandt's "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" (1633) is his only known seascape. Christ's disciples struggle to hold their boat as a wave lifts the bow. The painting was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990 and has never been recovered.
J. M. W. Turner claimed he was lashed to a mast to watch the storm he painted in "Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth" (1842, Tate). The story may not be true, but the swirl of snow, smoke and water is. Ivan Aivazovsky's "The Ninth Wave" (1850) shows sailors clinging to wreckage at dawn after a night storm. Winslow Homer painted the Maine coast in bad weather, as in "Northeaster" (1895, Metropolitan Museum of Art), where spray bursts over dark rocks.
