Painting by J. M. W. Turner
The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent's Rock, Bristol landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner . It depicts a stormy day on the River Avon looking across towards Hotwells , a suburb of Bristol , several decades before the Clifton Suspension Bridge was built to the north. It was produced when the artist was seventeen years old. The painting was considered lost for many years and had also been miscategorised as a watercolour . In 2024, when it came up for sale, it was purchased for £500 by a buyer who suspected it might be by Philip James de Loutherbourg , a successful French-born painter whose style Turner imitated in his early years. Cleaning revealed the signature of Turner. [ 1] [ 2]
The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1793 at Somerset House in London , making it the first known Turner oil painting to be exhibited. Previously his 1796 painting Fishermen at Sea Sotheby's in July 2025.[ 3] Bristol Museum and Art Gallery to purchase it was unsuccessful and it was bought for £1.9 million by a British private collector, several times the expected price.[ 4]
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Paintings
Lambeth Palace The Rising Squall Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Dunstanburgh Castle Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales c. 1799 –1800)A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire c. 1800 )A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance c. 1800 )Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree c. 1800 )View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Fifth Plague of Egypt Dutch Boats in a Gale Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather The Tenth Plague of Egypt Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland Jason Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage Bonneville, Savoy Calais Pier The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon The Destruction of Sodom The Deluge The Shipwreck Windsor Castle from the Thames Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen The Thames at Weybridge Walton Bridges Cliveden on Thames A Country Blacksmith Linlithgow Palace Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour The Junction of the Thames and the Medway The Forest of Bere Pope's Villa at Twickenham Margate Sheerness as Seen from the Nore The Unpaid Bill View of Richmond Hill and Bridge Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand The Garreteer's Petition London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips The Trout Stream Sun Setting through Vapour The Fish Market at Hastings Beach High Street, Oxford Apollo and Python Somer Hill, Tonbridge Saltash with the Water Ferry Hulks on the Tamar Teignmouth Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Frosty Morning Dido and Aeneas Dido building Carthage Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Raby Castle Dort or Dordrecht The Field of Waterloo Richmond Hill Entrance of the Meuse Rome, from the Vatican George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae The Harbour of Dieppe Cologne Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael Rembrandt's Daughter The Chain Pier, Brighton Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus View of Orvieto Vision of Medea The Banks of the Loire The Loretto Necklace Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus The Evening Star Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Pilate Washing his Hands Caligula's Palace and Bridge Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay Staffa, Fingal's Cave The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore St Michael's Mount, Cornwall The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight Line Fishing, Off Hastings Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )Juliet and her Nurse The Fighting Temeraire Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino The Slave Ship Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Venice from the Giudecca Schloss Rosenau Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour Approach to Venice Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Seascape: Folkestone c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )Queen Mab's Cave The Hero of a Hundred Fights The Wreck Buoy Mercury Sent to Admonish Aeneas The Departure of the Fleet The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
