DETAILS
- Artist
- J. M. W. Turner
- Date
- 1796
- Location
- Tate
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THE ARTIST
J. M. W. Turner
1775–1851 · Kingdom of Great BritainJ. M. W. Turner, the 'painter of light,' transformed landscape painting with his turbulent marine scenes and expressive use of color.
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Near the Thames’ Lock, Windsor
1809 · Tate
Forum Romanum, for Mr Soane's Museum
1826 · Tate
A Limekiln, Possibly at Briton Ferry in South Wales
1797 · Yale Center for British Art
Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus
1798 · National Gallery
Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland
1798 · National Gallery
Dolbadarn Castle
1800 · National Library of Wales
A Thames Backwater with Windsor Castle in the Distance
1805 · National Gallery
Walton Reach
1805 · National Gallery
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David · 1800 · Musée national de Malmaison et Bois-Préau
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Samuel Fisher Bradford
Rembrandt Peale · 1803 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Milton Dictating to His Daughter
Henry Fuseli · 1794 · Art Institute of Chicago
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John Blake (1770–1810), Mayor of Maidstone (1799)
Samuel Drummond · 1799 · Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery
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Portrait of the Artist's Father
Thomas Stewardson · 1800 · Abbot Hall Art Gallery
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Portrait of a Man
Benjamin West · 1790 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Winchester from the South
Tobias Young · 1803 · Winchester Guildhall
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Cilgerran Castle
William Havell · 1805 · National Museum Cardiff
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Mrs John Smart I
John Smart of Ipswich · 1785 · Dulwich Picture Gallery
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The Peasant Boy with a Hatchet
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin · 1810 · Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
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Young Man Lying on a Grave
Caspar David Friedrich · 1803 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Friar Pedro Binds El Maragato with a Rope
Francisco Goya · 1806 · Art Institute of Chicago




