Beachscape

...crowded with dozens of people and with a backdrop of photographically accurate buildings — the antithesis of a Whistler beachscape.

He is a realist as well as a Romantic, as you can see when you look at the marvel of this exhibition, his great Dawn After the Wreck (c.1841), a beachscape of despair that invites direct comparison with the Romantic art of Turner's German contemporary Caspar David Friedrich.