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The Slave Ship
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Battle of the Nile, but did not reach the apotheosis of his fame until Ruskin sang his praises. One of his most discussed pictures was that of the
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Slave Ship, which has in turn excited the most scathing ridicule and the most extravagant admiration. Thus George Inness, the American artist, wrote of him:
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Turner's 'Slave Ship' is the most infernal piece of clap-trap ever painted. There is nothing in it. Thackeray confessed with delightful frankness:
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I don't know whether it is sublime or ridiculous.
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I believe if I were reduced to rest Turner's immortality upon any single work, I should choose 'The Slave Ship.' Its daring conception, ideal in the highest sense of the word, is based on the purest truth, and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life. Its color is absolutely perfect, not one false or morbid hue in any part or line, and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition; its drawing as accurate as fearless; the ship buoyant, bending, and full of motion; its tones as true as they are wonderful; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions (completing thus the perfect system of all truth, which we have shown to be formed by Turner's works)--the power, majesty, and deathfulness of the open, deep, illimitable sea.
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Van Goyen Looking for a Subject,