Boreas (painting) the HBO series "The Handmaid's Tale" -- the episode entitled "First Blood" -- a print of "Boreas" can be seen hanging in Commander Waterford's home. Boreas (painting) Boreas is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style created in 1903 by John William Waterhouse. 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: "Boreas" was put up for sale in the mid-1990s after having been lost for 90 years - causing quite a sensation in
HMS Boreas (1757) Port-de-Paix. In late 1760, boats under the command of Lieutenant Millar, first lieutenant of and Lieutenant Stuart, first lieutenant of "Boreas", cut out the privateers "Vainquer" and "Mackau" from Cumberland Harbour, Cuba. The French were forced to burn another, the "Guespe", to prevent her capture. "Trent" lost three men killed and one man wounded and one man missing, and "Boreas" lost one man killed and five men wounded; French casualties are unknown. ASll the casualties occurred in taking "Vainquer" as "Mackau" did not resist. "Boreas" also lost her barge, sunk in the boarding. "Vainquer" was armed with 10 guns, 16