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Jun 11 2010
Slave Ship, William Turner, 1851
British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction by William Turner’s of “Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying” of 1851. Known popularly as “Slave Ship”, this stunning work caued a sensation in early Victorian England. The artist was then aged sixty-five and had been exhibited in the Royal Academy of Art since the age of fourteen. He never married and had several close friendships with men over his life. He died in 1851 having become quite eccentric in his later years.
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