A Disaster at Sea #2

This is a reproduction of “A Disaster at Sea” by Joseph Mallord William Turner of 1835. This master artist was one of the foremost English... more

by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Original - Not For Sale

Price

$750

Dimensions

20.000 x 15.250 x 0.750 inches

Title

A Disaster at Sea #2

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Medium

Painting

Description

This is a reproduction of “A Disaster at Sea” by Joseph Mallord William Turner of 1835. This master artist was one of the foremost English Romantic painters of all time. He was controversial in his own day but he raised the art of landscape to rival that genre of historical painting. He not only created wonderful oils, but he also was a master of watercolors and printing. He created this wonderful work at the age of seventy-one. He had receive formal training at the Royal Academy of Art from the age of fourteen and within eight years he was receiving enough patronage to insure his career in art. He died in 1851 in London. This canvas was never exhibited and is probably unfinished, but remains one of Turner's most powerful statements on the Romantic theme of maritime disaster. Its pyramidal composition leaves little doubt that Turner had seen Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (now in the Louvre, Paris) described by one critic as ‘this tremendous picture of human sufferings’, when it was exhibited in London in 1822. Turner's own subject is the wreck of the Amphitrite off Boulogne in 1833. The ship's captain abandoned his cargo of female convicts, claiming that he was only authorised to land them in New South Wales. This masterpiece is in the Tate Gallery in London and is an oil on canvas measuring 171.4 by 220.3 centimeters.

Uploaded

October 19th, 2018