In search of the rarest genre of all: the underwater landscape painting
(thread updated as I find them)
First was Wyllie Lionel Wyllie’s “Davy Jones’s Locker” (1890) https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/561491.html
Edward Moran, “The Valley of the Sea” (1862) http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/56245/ 
Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez, “Painting made from a drawing performed in an underwater submersible” (ca. 1867) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)
Alexis Rockman, “Great Lakes Cycle” http://alexisrockman.net/great-lakes/  (Grand Rapids Art Museum)
John Alexander, “Davy Jones Locker” (1987)
Premodern depictions welcome as well—Alexander the Great in the glass barrel, Berliner Alexanderroman (ca. 1320)
David C. Gallup, kelp forest (?) http://www.dgallup.com  (many other works)
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