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Rain, Steam and Speed. Movement. Romanticism. Signature. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, [ a ] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
28.9 x 40.3. Beech Trees at Norbury Park. c. 1797. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. 44 x 43.1. Turner was invited to Norbury Park in Surrey by the owner William Lock in 1797. The painting was bequeathed to the gallery in 1900 by Henry Vaughan. [4][5] Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus.
Tate Britain: the venue for the Turner Prize except in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 The Turner Prize is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist, organised by the Tate Gallery. Named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, it was first presented in 1984, and is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious, but controversial, art awards. Initially, the prize was awarded to the ...
Location. National Gallery, London. Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway is an oil painting by the 19th-century British painter J. M. W. Turner. [1] The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844, though it may have been painted earlier. [i] It is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London.
Oil on canvas, History painting. Dimensions. 147.5 cm × 239 cm (58.1 in × 94 in) Location. Tate Britain, London. The Field of Waterloo is an 1818 history painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. It portrays the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo which took place on 18 June 1815. Rather than the triumphal depictions commonplace in ...
The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Oil on canvas (1822–1824), 2615 x 3685 mm. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 is an 1822 painting by British artist J. M. W. Turner. It was commissioned by King George IV as a part of a series of works to decorate three state reception rooms in St ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 36.2 in (92 cm) x 48.5 in (123.1 cm) Cleveland Museum of Art, 92 cm (36.2 in) x 123 cm (48.4 in). The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by J. M. W. Turner, depicting different views of the fire that broke out at the Houses of Parliament on the evening of 16 October 1834.
The Slave Ship. The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on, [1] is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in 1840. Measuring 353⁄4 in × 481⁄4 in (91 cm × 123 cm) in oil on canvas, it is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts ...