A Shipwreck British shows that it stayed within

shows that it stayed within the Morris family until 1938

probably of the famous classical statue of Venus Callipygeia ('Venus of the beautiful behind')

Torquato Tasso's epic poem ""La Gerusalemme Liberata""

to visit the imprisoned

Hung in the Breakfast Room

A Shipwreck British shows that it stayed withinVernet was best known to his contemporaries for his realistic and often stormy marine paintings that captured the natural world realistically on canvas, while suggesting a divine presence through the use of dramatic lighting, ravaged landscape, and atmospheric effects. His works were much imitated and especially sought after by British collectors in the 18th and 19th century.