Boreas is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style created in 1903 by John William Waterhouse.
Subject The painting is titled Boreas, after the Greek god of the north wind, and it shows a young girl buffeted by the wind. The 1904 Royal Academy notes described the subject of the painting as:
Provenance Boreas was put up for sale in the mid-1990s after having been lost for 90 yearscausing quite a sensation in the art community. The painting achieved a record price for Waterhouse at that time, £848,500 ($1,294,000 USD).
See also List of paintings by John William Waterhouse
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