Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway
1844Major Work
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.
Romanticism
J.
Turner
1775 – 1851English
Joseph Mallord William Turner(London, 23 April 1775–London, 19 December 1851), known in his time asWilliam Turner,[a]was an EnglishRomanticpainter,printmakerandwatercolourist.
Selected Works
- Born
- 1775
- Died
- 1851
- Nationality
- English
- Movement
- Romanticism
Selected Masterworks
Definitive works that define this master's artistic legacy.
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Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
1842Major Work
Tate Britain
Snow Storm, or Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, (full title: Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the "Ariel" left Harwich) is a painting by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) from 1842.
The Slave Ship
1840Major Work
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
What a red rag is to a bull, Turner's "Slave Ship" was to me, before I studied art. Mr. Ruskin is educated in art up to a point where that picture throws him into as mad an ecstasy of pleasure as it used to throw me into one of rage, last year, when I was ignorant.
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up
1838Major Work
National Gallery, London
The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839.
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Open the studio to set influence weights and commence co-creation.
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