J. M. W. Turner · 1835
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons
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Turner's eyewitness inferno — the Palace of Westminster ablaze on the night of 16 October 1834, flames and smoke pouring across the sky and reflected in the Thames, Westminster Bridge glowing in the glare and crowds watching from the bank in the foreground. Cleveland Museum of Art.
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The story of The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 is the title of two oil paintings by Turner showing different views of the fire that broke out at the Houses of Parliament on the evening of 16 October 1834; one is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the other in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Along with thousands of other spectators, Turner witnessed the fire from the south bank of the Thames, opposite Westminster. He made pencil and watercolour sketches from different vantage points, including from a rented boat; the sketchbooks are now held by the Tate. It is not clear why he painted two oil versions of the same event.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His artistic style developed over his lifetime, moving away from Romanticism—bypassing the following rising style of Realism—and, instead, with his later works being a significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. In 1969 art historian Kenneth Clark wrote of Turner: "He was a genius of the first order—far the greatest painter that England has ever produced..."
All J. M. W. Turner prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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