Who painted “The Slave Ship”?

“The Slave Ship” was painted by J. M. W. Turner in 1840. Where to see it: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

What to look for

J. M. W. Turner: light and weather dissolving everything: blazing sunsets, storms, steam and sea mist swallowing ships and trains into swirls of colour.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 23 April 1775 – London, 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter and is regarded as one of the greatest British painters of the 19th century. Wikipedia

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“The Fighting Temeraire”, 1839
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“Fishermen at Sea”, 1796
“The Battle of Trafalgar”, 1823
“Sunrise with Sea Monsters”, 1845
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