waves and seafoam is especially admired, and gives his seascapes a romantic yet realistic quality that echoes the work of English watercolorist J. M. W. Turner and Russian painter Sylvester Shchedrin. THE NINTH WAVE The Ninth Wave is the best known painting by Russian Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky; it was painted in 1850. USED LITERATURE http://www.allposters.com/-st/Ivan-Kon stantinovich-Aivazovsky-Posters_c64072 _. htm http://en.gallerix.ru/album/aivazovsky https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Aivazovsky THANKS FOR WATCHING!!!