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J.M.W. Turner is without a doubt the greatest painter of landscapes and seascapes of all time. His production was prodigious: some 550 oil paintings, more than 2,000 extremely detailed and refined watercolours and nearly 20,000 studies, sketches and watercolour sketches. He excelled in all forms of painting: landscapes or seascapes, elaborate historical representations or classical scenes, miniature and watercolours of scenes of daily life on land and on sea, destined to be reproduced in engravings. The ensemble of Turner’s artwork evokes a particularly rich and dramatic sensibility, an interest for the complexities of life, an unequalled approach of the size and scale of nature, and a profound curiosity to discover what is under the surface – that which the painter calls the intrinsic “qualities and causes” of things. This curiosity leads Turner to explore the universal principles of architecture – whether it is born from nature or by man’s hand −, of light, of meteorology as well as of the dynamic of waves. He was a talented and extremely sophisticated colourist, becoming one of the best in European painting, and without a doubt the most skilled painter in conveying subtleties and nuances. His works, particularly his last works, reflect his projection of an ideal world of colours, forms and impressions.
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1Introduction
2The Life
3HIS WORK
425. The Fighting ‘Téméraire’, tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up, 1838, 1839. Oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm. Turner Bequest, National Gallery, London
526. Caernarvon Castle, North Wales, 1800. Watercolour on white paper, 66.3 x 99.4 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
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627. Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army crossing the Alps, 1812. Oil on canvas, 146 x 237.5 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
728. Crossing the Brook, 1815. Oil on canvas, 193 x 165 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
829. Dido building Carthage; or, the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire, 1815. Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 232 cm. Turner Bequest, National Gallery, London
930. The Battle of Trafalgar, 1822-1824. Oil on canvas, 259 x 365.8 cm. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
1031. Ulysses deriding Polyphemus – Homer’s Odyssey, 1829. Oil on canvas, 132.5 x 203 cm. Turner Bequest, National Gallery, London
1132. The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834, 1835. Oil on canvas, 92 x 123 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art
1233. Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhon coming on, 1840. Oil on canvas, 91 x 138 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass
1334. The Lauerzersee, with the Mythens, c.1848. Watercolour on white paper, 33.7 x 54.5 cm. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1435. St Anselm’s Chapel, with part of Thomas-à-Becket’s crown, Canterbury Cathedral, 1794. Watercolour on white paper, 51.7 x 37.4 cm. Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
1536. The Clyde, c.1845. Oil on canvas, 89 x 119.5 cm. Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
1637. Pope’s Villa at Twickenham, 1808. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 120.6 cm. Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
1738. Dolbadern Castle, North Wales, 1800. Oil on canvas, 119.5 x 90.2 cm. Royal Academy of Arts, London
1839. Trancept of Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire, 1797. Pencil and watercolour with scratching-out on white paper, 40 x 55.9 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
1940. Fall of the Reichenbach, in the valley of Oberhasli, Switzerland, 1804. Watercolour on white paper, 102.2 x 68.9 cm. Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
2041. Fishermen at Sea, 1796. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122.4 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
2142. Crook of Lune, looking towards Hornby Castle, c.1817. Watercolour on white paper, 28 x 41.7 cm. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
2243. The Seat of William Moffatt Esq., at Mortlake, Early (Summer’s) Morning, 1826. Oil on canvas, 93 x 123.2 cm. The Frick Collection, New York.
2344. Mortlake Terrace, the Seat of William Moffatt, Esq. Summer’s Evening, 1827. Oil on canvas, 92 x 122 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2445. Dutch Boats in a Gale: Fishermen Endeavouring to put their Fish on Board, 1801. Oil on canvas, 162.5 x 222 cm. Private Collection, on loan to the National Gallery, London
2546. Calais Pier, with French Poissards preparing for Sea: an English Packet arriving, 1803. Oil on canvas, 170.5 x 241.5 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
2647. The Shipwreck, 1805. Oil on canvas, 170.5 x 241.5 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
2748. Rye, Sussex, c. 1823. Watercolour on paper, 14.5 x 22.7 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
2849. The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire – Rome being determined on the Overthrow of her Hated Rival, demanded from her such Terms as might either force her into War, or ruin her by Compliance: the Enervated Carthaginians, in their Anxiety for Peace, consented to give up even their Arms and their Children, 1817. Oil on canvas, 170 x 238.5 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
2950. Rain, Steam, and Speed – the Great Western Railway, 1844. Oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm. Turner Bequest, National Gallery, London
3051. The Archbishop’s Palace, Lambeth, 1790. Watercolour on white paper, 26.3 x 37.8 cm. Indianapolis Museum of Art
3152. Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, 1796. Watercolour on white paper, 31.8 x 41.9 cm. Art Gallery and Museum, Wolverhampton
3253. Interior of Salisbury Cathedral, looking towards the North Transept, c.1802-5. Watercolour on white paper, 66 x 50.8 cm. Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
3355. The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons, 1810. Oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
3456. Mount Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817. Watercolour on white paper, 28.6 x 39.7 cm. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn
3557. Marxbourg and Brugberg on the Rhine, 1820. Watercolour on white paper, 29.1 x 45.8 cm. British Museum, London
3658. Dover Castle, December 1822. Watercolour on white paper, 43.2 x 62.9 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass
3759. A Storm (Shipwreck), 1823. Watercolour on white paper, 43.4 x 63.2 cm. British Museum, London
3860. Forum Romanum, for Mr Soane’s Museum, 1826. Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 237.7 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
3961. Northampton, Northamptonshire, Winter 1830-31. Watercolour on white paper, 29.5 x 43.9 cm. Private Collection
4062. The Golden Bough, 1834. Oil on canvas, 104 x 163.5 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
4163. Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, 1835. Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
4264. Flint Castle, North Wales, 1835. Watercolour on white paper, 26.5 x 39.1 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
4365. Modern Italy – The Pifferari, 1838. Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 123 cm. Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums
4466. Ancient Rome: Agrippina landing with the Ashes of Germanicus. The Triumphal Bridge and Palace of the Caesars restored, 1839. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
4567. Venice: A Storm in the Piazzetta, c.1840. Watercolour on white paper, 21.9 x 32.1 cm. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
4668. Venice: the Grand Canal looking towards the Dogana, c.1840. Watercolour on white paper, 22.1 x 32 cm. British Museum, London
4769. The Blue Rigi: Lake Lucerne, sunrise, 1842. Watercolour on white paper, 29.7 x 45 cm. Private Collection
4870. Lake Lucerne: the Bay of Uri from above Brunnen, 1842. Watercolour on white paper, 29.8 x 45.7 cm. Private Collection
4971. Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel left Harwich, 1842. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London
5072. The Pass of Faido, 1843. Watercolour on white paper, 30.5 x 47 cm. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
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