The traveling exhibition “Sargent and the Sea” is on view at the Royal Academy in London. Bloomberg's Martin Gayford finds the early seascapes by John Singer Sargent the most appealing.

He writes, "'Atlantic Sunset' (c. 1876) catches the ocean in a moment of calm, the water shimmering like satin; 'Atlantic Storm' (1876) is a scene out of a Herman Melville novel, looking back from the stern of the ship, with a white wake stretching out between the tumbling blue mounds of the waves...these early works are the peak of the exhibition."