Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish  1837

In [i]Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish[/i], Joseph Mallord William Turner translated his enduring preoccupation with the sea into a dramatic vision. The subject itself and the painting’s low horizon line derive directly from seventeenth-century Dutch sea painting. But where the boats in the seascapes of the period are almost reconstructible in their exactne...