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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: 1798 Tate Britain, London: 76.5 × 98.4 Caernarvon Castle: 1798 Tate Britain, London: 15.2 × 23.2 Shipping by a Breakwater: 1798 Tate Britain, London ...
Lawrence died unexpectedly in January, and the painting captures the snow-covered landscape of his burial ceremony. Turner served as one of the pallbearers and sketched the scene from memory. [1] It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. [2] It was later part of the 1856 Turner Bequest and is now in the collection of the Tate ...
In 1987, a new wing at the Tate, the Clore Gallery, was opened to house the Turner bequest, though some of the most important paintings remain in the National Gallery in contravention of Turner's condition that they be kept and shown together. Increasingly paintings are lent abroad, ignoring Turner's provision that they remain constantly and ...
Regulus is an oil painting by English artist J. M. W. Turner, initially painted in 1828, and now in Tate Britain, London.It depicts the legend of Roman consul Marcus Atilius Regulus' death, in which he was captured by Carthaginian forces and eventually executed after being blinded by the Sun.
Peace – Burial at Sea is an oil painting on canvas by the English Romantic artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), first exhibited in 1842. The painting serves as a memorial tribute to Turner's contemporary, the Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841), depicting Wilkie's burial at sea off Gibraltar. It was intended as a companion piece ...
Fishermen at Sea, 1796, the first oil painting by J. M. W. Turner to be exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1796. Fishermen at Sea, sometimes known as the Cholmeley Sea Piece, is an early oil painting by English artist J. M. W. Turner. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796 and has been owned by the Tate Gallery since 1972. It was the ...
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 35 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 48 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (91 cm × 123 cm) in oil on canvas, it is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Tate Gallery (1907). Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculpture in the National Gallery, British Art (15th ed.). pp. 358. Woodruff, A. W. (May 1980). "J M W Turner and some of his predecessors and successors, from the viewpoint of medical history". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 73 (5): 381– 392.