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mk129
many people in the palace
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Painting ID:: 37858
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mk132
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Painting ID:: 38266
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Painting ID:: 38267
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mk160
Painting ID:: 41372
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mk223
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Painting ID:: 52747
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mk225
1632-1633
64.5x47.5cm
Painting ID:: 52970
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mk96
Painting ID:: 53145
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mk234
1794
Painting ID:: 53639
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mk239
1911
29x25.6cm
Painting ID:: 55059
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mk239
1911
Watercolour
28.3x25.8cm
Painting ID:: 55076
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1911
Watercolour
28.3x25.8cm
Painting ID:: 55077
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mk239
1915
Watercolour
45x61cm
Painting ID:: 55103
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mk239
1916
Watercolour
23.8x16cm
Painting ID:: 55106
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mk239
1916
Watercolour
28.5x22cm
Painting ID:: 55107
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mk239
1917
Watercolour
25.5x34cm
Painting ID:: 55110
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mk239
1916
Oil on canvas
67x60cm
Painting ID:: 55111
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mk239
1917
20.7x14cm
Painting ID:: 55112
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mk239
1917
30.8x21cm
Painting ID:: 55113
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mk239
1917
Watercolour
34x25.5cm
Painting ID:: 55114
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mk239
1918
Watercolour
27.4x38cm
Painting ID:: 55116
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mk239
1918
Watercolour
25.7x34.4cm
Painting ID:: 55117
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mk239
1918
Watercolour
35x52.5cm
Painting ID:: 55118
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mk239
1921
Watercolour
30.4x24.4cm
Painting ID:: 55122
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mk239
1920
Watercolour
24x19cm
Painting ID:: 55123
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mk239
1922
Watercolour
34x24cm
Painting ID:: 55126
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mk239
1922
Watercolour
26.9x36.6cm
Painting ID:: 55127
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mk239
1922
Watercolour
46.7x42.5cm
Painting ID:: 55129
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mk239
1922
Watercolour
32.8x47.8cm
Painting ID:: 55130
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mk239
1923
Watercolour
33x47.5cm
Painting ID:: 55134
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mk239
1924
Watercolour
25x20cm
Painting ID:: 55143
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mk239
1930
22.3x16.1cm
Painting ID:: 55180
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mk239
1940
49x31.5cm
Painting ID:: 55208
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mk239
1941
Oil painting
Painting ID:: 55213
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mk239
1941
31x48cm
Painting ID:: 55214
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mk239
1941
33x51cm
Painting ID:: 55216
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mk239
1940
49.8x35cm
Painting ID:: 55218
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 ?C 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterised by a chromatic palette and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint. According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles." However, Turner was still recognised as an artistic genius: the influential English art critic John Ruskin described Turner as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature." (Piper 321)
Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires (such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen in Dawn after the Wreck (1840) and The Slave Ship (1840).
Turner placed human beings in many of his paintings to indicate his affection for humanity on the one hand (note the frequent scenes of people drinking and merry-making or working in the foreground), but its vulnerability and vulgarity amid the 'sublime' nature of the world on the other hand. 'Sublime' here means awe-inspiring, savage grandeur, a natural world unmastered by man, evidence of the power of God - a theme that artists and poets were exploring in this period. The significance of light was to Turner the emanation of God's spirit and this was why he refined the subject matter of his later paintings by leaving out solid objects and detail, concentrating on the play of light on water, the radiance of skies and fires. Although these late paintings appear to be 'impressionistic' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of spirituality in the world, rather than responding primarily to optical phenomena.
Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway painted (1844).His early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stayed true to the traditions of English landscape. However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature had already come into play. His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects. (Piper 321)
One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself "tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama" of the elements during a storm at sea.
In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognizable. The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.
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mk239
1940
49.8x35cm
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