In this chapter, Karlholm outlines how Marcus Larson (1825–1864), a relatively well-known Swedish painter, dealt with unruly nature in the genres of landscape and marine painting of the mid-nineteenth century. His art was formed, at first, by the Norwegian reception of the Düsseldorf school and by his many continental, notably Parisian, experiences. Karlholm presents his artistry, characterized by both Romanticism and Realism and concocted into an extravagant style of his own. As Larson led an unruly life and was often compared to various forces of nature, such analogies will also be explored. However, the fact that Larson somewhat restlessly crisscrossed Europe has been duly noted by the (old) research on him and his existing art – to the point of becoming a cliché. Against the conventional picture of him, where he is reductively identified with National Romanticism in Scandinavia, Karlholm suggests he was uncommitted to being national or even Nordic in his land- and seascapes. Theoretically, Larson's quasi-sublime images of, e. g., burning steamships on the verge of crashing into moon-lit cliffs will also be related to present-day issues on escalating climate change and extreme weather conditions, where they assume an anachronic identity of allegories of our spectral future.