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Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, William Turner

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This is a reproduction of “Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, Venice” of 1833 by William Turner.  When the artist exhibited this masterpiece in 1840 he accompanied it with these lines based on Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,

“I stood upon a bridge, a palace
and a prison on each hand.”

Byron had named the bridge based on the fact that Venetian prisoners would last glimpse the open world upon this bridge before being led into prison cells.  The painting was given to the British nation in 1856.  This masterpiece is 81.6 cm wide and 51.1 cm high and is in the Tate, London.

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Ovid Banished from Rome, J. M. William Turner

British / Greco-Roman / Impressionist / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Ovid Banished from Rome” of 1838 by J. M. William Turner.  The infamous Roman author of erotic poetry had often irritated Augustus who was intent on restoring the "old morals" to the Roman Empire.  In the scandal over his own daughter’s infidelities, Publius Ovidius Naso was exiled from Rome to the barbaric lands on the shore of the Black Sea where he died after ten years.  This masterpiece was produced when the artist was sixty-three years old and well advanced into the eccentricity which marked his life after the death of his father.  He had repeated bouts of depression and died twelve years after completing this painting.  The original painting is 49.2 inches wide and 37.24 inches wide and resides in a private collection.

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Sketch of Constance on the Bodensee, J. M. William Turner

British / Impressionist / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Sketch of Constance on the Bodensee” by J. M William Turner of 1842.  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 sixty-seven.  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 masterpiece is in the British Museum, London.

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Shipwreck of the Minotaur, J. M. William Turner, ca. 1810

British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Shipwreck of the Minotaur” by J. M. William Turner of about 1810.  This British warship was sailing from Gothenburg to Britain when it was wrecked on the night of December 22, 1810.  Over a hundred of her crew reached the Dutch shore and twenty others were rescued by a pilot vessel.  Yet Dutch authorities refused to send help to the vessel which was being pounded to pieces.  Between 370 and 570 souls were lost and the 130 survivors were taken to France as prisoners of war.  Turner had been working on shipwreck paintings and this one was named to take advantage of the scandal among the British public over the failure of the Dutch to rescue hundreds of people who could have been saved.  This masterpiece is in the Calouste Gulenkian Museum in Lisbon.

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Going to the Ball, William Turner, 1846

British / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Going to the Ball (San Martino)” by Joseph Mallord William Turner of 1846.  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 masterpiece depicts a party in Venice on its way to a ball via gondola.  The painting is in a private collection.

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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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