J. M. W. Turner - paintings 1840-1849
Turner elicited strong responses from friends and foes alike. On the one hand, he was respected by many colleagues. Having become a full member of the RA at age twenty-six, he was elected Professor of Perspective five years later. He remained active in the Academy throughout his life, serving in various governing roles which culminated in a brief tenure as acting president in 1845. Yet Turner continually elicited disdain from some conservative critics. In 1836, a vituperative review lambasting his loose handling inspired John Ruskin to take up Turner's defense. Ruskin's argument for Turner's genius ultimately grew into the five-volume Modern Painters (published 1843–60). Upon his death, Turner joined the notable Britons buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral. His bequest of 300 oil paintings and more than 20,000 works on paper soon entered the collection of London's Tate Gallery.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Ehrenbreitstein and Coblenz 1840 |
Oberwesel 1840 |
Rockets and Blue Lights to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water 1840 |
Seascape with Distant Coast 1840 |
Seascape with Storm Coming On 1840 |
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Sun Setting over a Lake 1840 |
Sunrise, with a Boat between Headlands 1840 |
The New Moon or ‘I’ve lost My Boat, You shan’t have Your Hoop’ 1840 |
The Slave 1840 |
Turner’s Bedroom in the Palazzo Giustinian, the Hotel Europa, Venice 1840 |
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Venice 1840 |
Venice, Moonrise 1840 |
Venice, seen from the Giudecca Canal 1840 |
Venice, the Bridge of Sighs 1840 |
View off Margate, Evening 1840 |
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Waves Breaking against the Wind 1840 |
Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore at Margate 1840 |
Landscape with Water 1840-1845 |
Rough Sea 1840-1845 |
Rough Sea with Wreckage 1840-1845 |
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Sunrise, with a Boat between Headlands 1840-1845 |
The Ponte Delle Torri, Spoleto 1840-1845 |
Venice with the Salute 1840-1845 |
Yacht Approaching the Coast 1840-1845 |
Dawn after the Wreck 1841 |
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Fire at the Grand Storehouse of the Tower of London 1841 |
Giudecca, la Donna della Salute and San Georgio 1841 |
Goldau 1841 |
Hafod 1841 |
South of Bellinzona 1841 |
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Campo Santo, Venice 1842 |
Peace 1842 |
Storm Seam Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water 1842 |
The Blue Rigi Lake of Lucerne Sunrise 1842 |
The Dark Rigi 1842 |
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The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, From the Steps of the Europa 1842 |
The Opening of the Wallhalla 1842 |
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet 1842 |
Goldau, with the Lake of Zug in the Distance 1842-1843 |
Approach to Venice 1843 |
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Shade and Darkness. The Evening of the Deluge 1843 |
St Benedetto, Looking towards Fusina 1843 |
The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 1843 |
The Evening of the Deluge 1843 |
The Lake of Zug 1843 |
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The Morning after the Deluge 1843 |
The Sun of Venice Going to Sea 1843 |
Modern Italy, the Pifferari 1838 |
Fishing Boats Bringing a Disabled Ship into Port Ruysdael 1844 |
Lake Lucerne, the Bay of Uri from above Brunnen 1844 |
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Rain Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway 1844 |
Venice, Maria della Salute 1844 |
Heidelberg 1844-1845 |
The Disembarkation of Louis-Philippe at the Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, 8 October 1844 1844-1845 |
Brunnen, from the Lake of Lucerne 1845 |
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Coast Scene 1845 |
Figures on a Beach 1845 |
Fluelen, from the Lake of Lucerne 1845 |
Norham Castle, Sunrise 1845 |
Red Sky over a Beach 1845 |
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Riva degli Schiavone, Venice, Water Fete 1845 |
Sailing Boat in a Rough Sea 1845 |
Ship in a Storm 1845 |
Sunrise with Sea Monsters 1845 |
Sunset Seen from a Beach with Breakwater 1845 |
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Two Figures on a Beach with a Boat 1845 |
Venice with the Salute 1845 |
Waves Breaking on a Beach 1845 |
Whalers 1845 |
Whalers 1845 |
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Going to the Ball, San Martino 1846 |
Heidelberg 1846 |
Queen Mab’s Cave 1846 |
Returning from the Ball, St Martha 1846 |
The Angel Standing in the Sun 1846 |
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Undine Giving the Ring to Massaniello, Fisherman of Naples 1846 |
Undine Giving the Ring to Massaniello, Fisherman of Naples 1846 |
Whalers, Boiling Blubber, Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves 1846 |
The Brunig Pass, from Meringen 1847 |
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus 1848 |