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Looking forward to seeing you! Turner’s English Coasts opens at the home he designed for himself in Twickenham on Saturday 22nd May - 5th September 10am to 4pm. Prebooking essential via https://t.co/FCkjOs4Ou7. https://t.co/gLjqqKZLa6

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Quillebeuf, at the Mouth of Seine, 1833

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worked during the peak of the Many ignore the changing Turner did not! He transformed the way he painted to better capture the world as seen in his 'Rain, Steam, and Speed' of 1844, and many more!

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The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834

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Cathedral Church at Lincoln, 1795

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The Wreck of a Transport Ship, 1810

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Quillebeuf, at the Mouth of Seine, 1833

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“The first exhibition I saw, in 1819, is fixed in my memory by the first Turner ‘The orange merchant on the bar’ - and being by nature a lover of smudginess, I have revelled in him fro that day to this.”
Samuel Palmer, 9 December 1872

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A Villa (Villa Madama - Moonlight), for Rogers’s ‘Italy’ (1826–7)

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JMW Turner: Narrating A Modern World – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith https://t.co/yU4pMThqpY

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was critical of Nicolas Poussin’s ‘Winter (The Duluge)’ which he saw lacking drama with the figures stiff and the scene sterile. However, he found the colouring ‘sublime’. Turner painted his own ‘Deluge’, exhibited at the RA in 1805 which was full of tragedy and drama.

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The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834

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