Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746 - 1828)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, The Colossus, 1810

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746 - 1828)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The Sleep of reason Produces Monsters), c1799 (No.43 from Los Caprichos)

John Constable (1776 - 1837)

John Constable, The Leaping Horse, 1824-5

Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840)

Caspar David Friedrich, The Abbey in the Oakwood, 1809-10

Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840)

Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Mists, c1817-18

Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

Eugène Delacroix, The 28th July: Liberty Leading the People, 1830

Théodore Géricault (1791 - 1824)

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819

On July 5, 1816 the French naval frigate Medusa ran aground off the West African coast. Approx 150 seamen and soldiers crowded onto a raft to be towed by officers in a boat – unable to make headway the raft was cut adrift. The castaways were subjected to storms, starvation, dehydration, cannibalism, and madness. Few survived.

Antoine-Jean Gros (1771 - 1835)

Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa, 1804

Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapulus, 1827

John Martin (1789 - 1854)

The 'Last Judgement' triptych

John Martin, The Last Judgement, c1849-53

John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1851-53

John Martin, The Plains of Heaven, 1851-53

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851)

J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844