Who painted “Brig ‘Mercury’ Attacked by Two Turkish Ships”?

“Brig ‘Mercury’ Attacked by Two Turkish Ships” was painted by Ivan Aivazovsky in 1892. Where to see it: Feodosia National Gallery I. K. Aivazovsky.

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Ivan Aivazovsky: the sea in every mood: towering waves, shipwrecks, moonlight and glowing sunsets on water.

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian parents in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. Wikipedia

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More by Ivan Aivazovsky

“The Ninth Wave”, 1850
“The Wrath of the Seas”, 1886
“The Black Sea”, 1881
“Rainbow”, 1873
“The Wave”, 1889
“A Moonlit Night on the Bosphorus”, 1894
“A. S. Pushkin at the Black Sea coast”, 1887
“Battle of Chesma”, 1848