Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Turner Bequest: best free show in London.


Joseph Mallord William Turner, 'Norham Castle, Sunrise' circa 1845


Joseph Mallord William Turner
Norham Castle, Sunrise circa 1845
Oil on canvas
support: 908 x 1219 mm frame: 1060 x 1370 x 70 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Tate Britain houses the world’s largest collection of Turner’s work. It is home to the Turner Bequest, comprising three hundred oil paintings and many thousands of sketches and watercolours (including three hundred sketchbooks). The Bequest, including all works left behind in Turner’s studio at his death in 1851, forms the vast majority of the Turner collection at Tate.

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