Рыбацкие лодки с торговками, торгующимися за рыбу

Turner showed this in London in 1838, and at first glance it is a tribute to the old Dutch sea-painters he had studied for decades, all churning grey-green water and a fishing crew haggling with a peddler who has rowed out to buy their catch. Look toward the horizon, though. Behind the sails a steamship is pushing along under its own smoke, and that small detail carries the real news of the year. Steam was starting to crowd out the wind-driven boats these fishermen lived by, and Turner, then in his early 60s, was among the first painters to keep working it into his seascapes. He built the sunlit water in the foreground out of thick daubs of paint you can still see standing off the surface, while the storm gathers dark behind.