Mount St Michael, Cornwall

Mount St Michael, Cornwall is an 1830 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. Stanfield, a former sailor, specialised in marine paintings. This view of St Michael's Mount in stormy weather was a breakthrough for him. It was produced when Romanticism was at its height. It remains one of his best known works along with his The Battle of Trafalgar.
It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1830 and at the British Institution in 1831. Impressed by the painting, William IV commissioned two major works from him Portsmouth Harbour and The Opening of New London Bridge. Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.