A boat tilts on a huge wave, sailors fight the ropes, and Christ sleeps at the stern. Rembrandt painted only one seascape, in 1633, and in 1990 it was cut from its frame and stolen. It has never been found.

Turner painted the killing storm, Aivazovsky the moment of survival, Sorolla the blaze of noon, Krøyer the pale northern dusk: seven canvases, seven faces of the sea.