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Tate Britain is the home of the annual and usually controversial Turner Prize exhibition, featuring four artists selected by a jury chaired by the director of Tate Britain. This is spread out over the year with the four nominees announced in May, the show of their work opened in October and the prize itself given in December.
Tate Britain, London The Departure of the Fleet is an 1850 history painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner . [ 1 ] Inspired by Classical writings, it depicts the fleet of the Trojan Aeneas departing from Carthage [ 2 ] The Carthaginian Queen Dido and her attendants are on the left, watching the departure of the ships.
Tate Britain, London Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour is an 1807 maritime painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner . [ 1 ] It depicts two captured Danish ships of the line being brought into harbour by the Royal Navy at Spithead the major naval base off Portsmouth , Hampshire .
The most comprehensive collection of British art in the world is having a reshuffle. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson tells Eloise Hendy about how the gallery’s ‘interventions’ will ...
All four museums share the Tate Collection. One of the Tate's most publicised art events is the awarding of the annual Turner Prize to a British visual artist, which takes place at Tate Britain every other year (taking place at venues outside of London in alternate years). [3]
Tate Britain, London: Sunrise with Sea Monsters is an unfinished oil painting by English artist J. M. W. Turner. It is in the permanent collection of Tate Britain. [1]
It was the subject of controversy at the time and even Turner's later supporter John Ruskin thought the use of colours was crude. [5] Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been acquired by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest in 1856. [6]
Turner presents it as a pastoral scene with bright sunshine and bathing woman and grazing sheep despite the presence of the substantial nearby settlement of Richmond. Edwin Landseer saw the painting in Turner's studio in 1808 and reviewed it. It is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been part of the Turner bequest of ...