What links this painting to Wuthering Heights? | National Gallery

A violent, stormy landscape. Two star-crossed lovers. Anguish, mystery and passion.

What’s happening in this mythical painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner? And how is it linked to another famous pair of doomed lovers from Wuthering Heights?

Art historian Dr Rebecca Marks takes a closer look at ‘The Parting of Hero and Leander’.