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Turner in Holland

1801 Turner's first outstanding marine picture in oil

 1801 Turner's first outstanding marine picture in oil, he set the seal on his fame with this painting

Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Clearing and Selling Fish, 1807

The Rotterdam Ferry Boat, 1833

The Prince of Orange, William 111, Embarked from Holland' and Landed at Torbay

Van Goyen Looking out for a Subject, 1833
Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Clearing and Selling Fish, 1807 National Gallery, London. The Rotterdam Ferry Boat, 1833,  National Gallery of Art, Washington The Prince of Orange, William 111, Embarked from Holland and Landed at Torbay 1832 Van Goyen Looking out for a Subject, Antwerp; 1833,  The Frink Collection, New York

Dort. The Dort Packet- Boat From Rotterdam 1817  Drawing for Dort, from Turner's Sketch book of Holland       

Exhibited Royal Academy 1818.  Dort, or Dordrecht, the Dort packet-boat from Rottendam becalmed.

      The scene depicted from a very low viewpoint, The Swan packet-boat immobile until the turn of the ebb tide, so the villagers from shore offer fresh victuals to the passengers, as is the custom. The Morning Chronicle (May1818) quotes" The Dort was considered one of the most magnificent pictures ever exhibited, and does honors to the age". The painting was brought by one of Turner's patrons Walter Fawkes. Now at Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

Turner The Storm (Shipwreck), 1823 British Museum, London    Dover Castle, 1822 43 x 62 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston    Calais Pier, with French Poissards preparing for Sea: an English Packet arriving, 1803 172 x 240 cm National Gallery, London    Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight 1835 90 x 122 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington    Fisherman at Sea, 1796 91 x 122 Clore Gallery   
He must be a painter of strength of nature, there was no beauty elsewhere than in that; he must paint also the labour and sorrow and passing away of man: this was the great human truth visible to him. . . . Labour; by sea and land, in the field and city, at forge and furnace, helm and plough. No pastoral indolence nor classic pride shall stand between him and the troubling of the world; still less between him and the toil of his county,- blind, tormented, unwearied, marvelous England. John Ruskin Modern Painters, ( John Ruskin was the great champion of Turner, he was always informing the world how great Turner was.)

Van Tromp Returning after the Battle off the Dogger bank, 1833

Van Tromp's Shallop, at the Entrance of the Scheldt, 1832

Admiral Van Tromp's Barge at the Entrance of the Texel 1645

Fishing Boats Bringing a Disabled Ship into Port Ruysdael, 1844
Van Tromp Returning after the Battle off the Dogger bank, 1833. Tate Gallery Van Tromp's Shallop, at the Entrance of the Scheldt, 1832  Admiral Van Tromp's Barge at the Entrance of the Texel 1645, Exhibited 1831 Fishing Boats Bringing a Disabled Ship into Port Ruysdael, 1827, Tate Gallery

Sir Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy when Turner was first a member, declared that painters should go to the Dutch School to learn the art of paintings as they would go to grammar school to learn languages.

Turners first trip abroad in 1802 was to study Dutch art at the Louvre in Paris where Napoleon had acquired much treasure from his wars. Turner was also to travel in the steps of Napoleon in 1817, from which he later exhibited the anti-war painting 'The Fields of Waterloo'.

When Turner was shown a print by the Dutch artist Van de Velde, he said 'that made me a painter'. During his travels to Holland in 1817, 1825, 1840/41/42, Turner made more than 600 drawings. Some for later development into the wonderful marine paintings we have today.

The Slave Ship Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhon coming on (The Slave Ship), 1840 90 x122cm Boston Museum of Fine Arts Back to Top 

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