Turner takes on the masters at the Tate

JMW Turner, Dutch Boats in a Gale, 1801 Photograph: /The National Gallery

Willem Van de Velde the Younger, A Rising Gale, 1672 Photograph: Toledo Museum of Art

JMW Turner, Helvoetsluys, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1832 Photograph: Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection

John Constable, Opening of Waterloo Bridge, exhibited 1832 Photograph: Tate

JMW Turner, The Deluge, 1843 Photograph: Tate

Nicolas Poussin, Winter - The Deluge, 1660-4 Photograph: Louvre