J. M. W. Turner · 1818
Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed
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A crowded Dutch packet-boat lies becalmed on the glassy river at Dordrecht, its sails hanging in the still air, rowboats alongside and the town's great church on the skyline under a vast golden-blue sky. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
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The story of Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed
Turner based the painting on drawings he made at Dordrecht in mid-September 1817, and it is considered the finest example of the influence of Dutch marine painting on his work. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1818, it was described by The Morning Chronicle as 'one of the most magnificent pictures ever exhibited'. In 1832 John Constable called it 'the most complete work of a genius I ever saw'. It was bought by Walter Fawkes for 500 guineas and hung at Farnley Hall until Paul Mellon bought it in 1966; it was then given to the Yale Center for British Art.
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..."
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