Fishermen Hauling a Boat ashore (1804) : The painting depicts one ship at sea in rough waves with two boats. Figures are on the beach. The selection of this painting for the Bequest by Lord Iveagh may have been because the subject accorded with his personal love of sailing. However, the inclusion of the The Iveagh Sea Piece also allowed visitors to the Bequest to compare Turner�s handling of a maritime subject with those by the Dutch 17th-Century painters also represented in the collection. *JMW (Joseph Mallord William) TURNER (1775-1851) was one of the most important English Romantic Painters of the 19th century. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. Turner's imagination was sparked by shipwrecks, fires, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power, turbulence and tidestorms of the sea. It's said that his last words before death were, 'The Sun is God!'