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J.M.W. Turner

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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

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

2The Life

2950. Rain, Steam, and Speed – the Great Western Railway, 1844. Oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm. Turner Bequest, National Gallery, London

3HIS WORK

3051. The Archbishop’s Palace, Lambeth, 1790. Watercolour on white paper, 26.3 x 37.8 cm. Indianapolis Museum of Art

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

3152. Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, 1796. Watercolour on white paper, 31.8 x 41.9 cm. Art Gallery and Museum, Wolverhampton

526. Caernarvon Castle, North Wales, 1800. Watercolour on white paper, 66.3 x 99.4 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London

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

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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

3355. The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons, 1810. Oil on canvas, 90 x 120 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London

728. Crossing the Brook, 1815. Oil on canvas, 193 x 165 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

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

3557. Marxbourg and Brugberg on the Rhine, 1820. Watercolour on white paper, 29.1 x 45.8 cm. British Museum, London

930. The Battle of Trafalgar, 1822-1824. Oil on canvas, 259 x 365.8 cm. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

3658. Dover Castle, December 1822. Watercolour on white paper, 43.2 x 62.9 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass

1031. Ulysses deriding Polyphemus – Homer’s Odyssey, 1829. Oil on canvas, 132.5 x 203 cm. Turner Bequest, National Gallery, London

3759. A Storm (Shipwreck), 1823. Watercolour on white paper, 43.4 x 63.2 cm. British Museum, 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

3860. Forum Romanum, for Mr Soane’s Museum, 1826. Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 237.7 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London

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

3961. Northampton, Northamptonshire, Winter 1830-31. Watercolour on white paper, 29.5 x 43.9 cm. Private Collection

1334. The Lauerzersee, with the Mythens, c.1848. Watercolour on white paper, 33.7 x 54.5 cm. Victoria and Albert Museum, London

4062. The Golden Bough, 1834. Oil on canvas, 104 x 163.5 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, 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

4163. Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, 1835. Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1536. The Clyde, c.1845. Oil on canvas, 89 x 119.5 cm. Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight

4264. Flint Castle, North Wales, 1835. Watercolour on white paper, 26.5 x 39.1 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

1637. Pope’s Villa at Twickenham, 1808. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 120.6 cm. Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

4365. Modern Italy – The Pifferari, 1838. Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 123 cm. Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums

1738. Dolbadern Castle, North Wales, 1800. Oil on canvas, 119.5 x 90.2 cm. Royal Academy of Arts, London

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

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

4567. Venice: A Storm in the Piazzetta, c.1840. Watercolour on white paper, 21.9 x 32.1 cm. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

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

4668. Venice: the Grand Canal looking towards the Dogana, c.1840. Watercolour on white paper, 22.1 x 32 cm. British Museum, London

2041. Fishermen at Sea, 1796. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122.4 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London

4769. The Blue Rigi: Lake Lucerne, sunrise, 1842. Watercolour on white paper, 29.7 x 45 cm. Private Collection

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

4870. Lake Lucerne: the Bay of Uri from above Brunnen, 1842. Watercolour on white paper, 29.8 x 45.7 cm. Private Collection

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.

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

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

5072. The Pass of Faido, 1843. Watercolour on white paper, 30.5 x 47 cm. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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

5173. Whalers, 1845. Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 122.5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum, New York

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

5274. Yacht approaching the Coast, c.1850. Oil on canvas, 102 x 142 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London

2647. The Shipwreck, 1805. Oil on canvas, 170.5 x 241.5 cm. Turner Bequest, Tate Britain, London

5375. Petworth Park, with Lord Egremont and his Dogs; Sample Study, c.1828. Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 145.5 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

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