"subject of the painting, and it has been suggested that the ship stands for the artist himself, with an accomplished and glorious past but now contemplating his mortality. Turner called the work his ""darling"", which may have been due to its beauty, or his identification with the subject. Sir Henry Newbolt wrote later a ballad titled ""The Fighting Temeraire"", describing the same scene: ""And she's fading down the river, But in England's song for ever, She's the Fighting Téméraire."" Turner took some artistic licence with the painting. The ship was known to her crew as ""Saucy"", rather than ""Fighting"" ""Temeraire""."
"Many works of Marine art have been produced by British artists and on British maritime topics. One of the best known paintings in Britain is ""The Fighting Temeraire"" by J. M. W. Turner that hangs in London's National Gallery. A lot of seaside resorts have art galleries selling marine subjects. In addition there is art produced by the sailors themselves, such as scrimshaw. Britain has had many authors who wrote on marine topics, the sailing era being a popular period. Joseph Conrad, who was born in Poland in 1857, came to Britain in 1878 and was naturalised in 1886. He"
"in Water Colours founded the Winsor & Newton Turner Watercolour Award. A major exhibition, ""Turner's Britain"", with material (including ""The Fighting Temeraire"") on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from 7 November 2003 to 8 February 2004. In 2005, Turner's ""The Fighting Temeraire"" was voted Britain's ""greatest painting"" in a public poll organised by the BBC. Leo McKern played Turner in ""The Sun is God"", a 1974 Thames Television production directed by Michael Darlow. The programme was shown on 17 December 1974, during the Turner Bicentenary Exhibition in London. In January 2011 ""The"
"poem ""Ye Mariners of England"". The flag which braved the battle and the breeze,<br>no longer owns her. Turner's painting achieved widespread critical acclaim, and accolades from the likes of John Ruskin and William Makepeace Thackeray. It was Turner's particular favourite; he only lent it once and refused to ever do so again. He also refused to sell it at any price, and on his death bequeathed it to the nation. It hangs today in the National Gallery, and in 2005 it was voted the nation's favourite painting in a poll organized by BBC Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. ""The Fighting Temeraire"""
"Flemish Baroque artist and leading court painter in England. Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, who is commonly known as ""the painter of light"". Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789) was a French painter whose landscapes, including those of moonlights were popular with English aristocrats. His ""The Port of Rochefort"" (1763, Musée national de la Marine) is particularly notable; in the piece Vernet is able to achieve, according to art historian Michael Levey, one of his most 'crystalline and atmospherically sensitive skies'. Joseph Wright of Derby"
"Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his bitter rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British portrait artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding"
"Among his main works were: ""The Burning of L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile"", ""The Battle of Algiers"", ""The Battle of Trafalgar"", ""The Port of Venice at Carnival Time"", ""HMS Greyhound and HMS Harrier engaging a Dutch Squadron in the Java Seas"", ""Frigates becalmed in the Ionian Channel"" and ""A Waterspout off the Coast of Albania"". Attribution: Joseph Cartwright (artist) Joseph Cartwright (1789? – 16 January 1829) was an English marine painter. Cartwright was a native of Dawlish in Devon, and worked for the navy in a civilian capacity. When the Ionian Islands came into the possession of the"
"with Sir Peter Lely followed by Sir Godfrey Kneller, developing the English portrait style established by the Flemish Anthony van Dyck before the English Civil War. The marine painters van der Velde, father and son, were among several artists who left Holland at the French invasion of 1672, which brought a collapse in the art market. They also moved to London, and the beginnings of English landscape painting were established by several less distinguished Dutch painters, such as Hendrick Danckerts. The Bamboccianti were a colony of Dutch artists who introduced the genre scene to Italy. Jan Weenix and Melchior d'Hondecoeter"
"coming to Anchor in a Breeze', and other naval subjects in the following years. In 1827 he was present on board the Mosquito at the battle of Navarino and on his return he drew on stone, and published in 1828, 'Illustrations of the Battle of Navarin,' which was followed by 'Illustrations of the Occurrences at the Entrance of the Bay of Patras between the English Squadron and Turkish Fleets 1827. He also painted incidents of these engagements, which were exhibited in 1829, 1830 and 1831. He was present with the English fleet on the coast of Portugal in 1833 and"
"exhibitor in 1838, when he contributed an oil painting, ""Shipping in the Bay of Naples"", to the Society of British Artists. He showed both oil paintings and watercolours at the Royal Academy, his contributions including ""The Conqueror towing the Africa off the Shoals of Trafalgar"" (1841) and ""The Arrival of the Royal Squadron"" (1843). He lived in Newcastle until about 1845, when he moved to London, where he was already known as a skilful marine painter. In 1855, during the Crimean War he was sent to the Baltic to make drawings for ""The Illustrated London News"". His painting of the"
"and named St John Horsleydown. It was from the Bermondsey riverside that the painter J.M.W. Turner executed his famous painting of ""The Fighting ""Temeraire"" Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up"" (1839), depicting the veteran warship being towed to Rotherhithe to be scrapped. By the mid-19th century, parts of Bermondsey, especially along the riverside, had become notorious slums with the arrival of industrial plants, docks and immigrant housing. The area around St. Saviour's Dock, known as Jacob's Island, was one of the worst in London. It was immortalised in Charles Dickens's novel ""Oliver Twist"", in which the villain,"
"George Arnald George Arnald (1763 – 21 November 1841) was a British painter who specialised in landscapes, including topographical views to illustrated county histories. He is best known for his celebrated painting depicting the Battle of the Nile. George Arnald was born in 1763. One account places his birth in the village of Farndip (now Farndish) in Northamptonshire (now Bedfordshire), although others suggest he was born in Berkshire. There is little information about Arnald's early years, but it is believed that he began his working life as a domestic servant before turning to the study of art. He was a"
"maritime painter of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. He painted over 150 actions of the Royal Navy including fifty plates for ""The Naval Achievements of Great Britain"", a splendid volume issued after the cessation of hostilities. He exhibited at the Royal Academy fifty-six times between 1783 and 1824 and once each at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists. Many of his paintings are today in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and in other important naval collections around the world. Thomas Whitcombe Thomas Whitcombe (possibly 19 May 1763 – c. 1824) was"
"was already mostly left to specialists, with rare exceptions like Rembrandt's powerful ""The Storm on the Sea of Galilee"" of 1633, his only true seascape. Van Dyck made some fine drawings of the English coast from boats off Rye, apparently when waiting for his ship to the continent, but never produced any paintings. Some of Rubens's paintings involve the sea and ships, but are so extravagant and stylised that they can hardly be called marine art. However Claude Lorrain developed an influential type of harbour scene, usually with a view out to a sea with a rising or setting sun,"
"created an enduring interest in the story of the ""Temeraire"" and several poems appeared in the decades following her breaking up. Gerald Massey wrote ""The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth"", Herman Melville produced ""The Temeraire"", and Henry Newbolt wrote ""The Fighting Temeraire"", with its closing lines Now the sunset's breezes shiver,<br>And she's fading down the river,<br>But in England's song forever,<br>She's the Fighting Temeraire. a. Sometimes referred to as the ""Dreadnought"" class. b. This ""Temeraire"" retained her French name after her capture, and served during the Seven Years' War, before being sold out of the service in 1784. c."
"Thomas Buttersworth Thomas Buttersworth (5 May 1768 – November 1842) was an English seaman of the Napoleonic wars period who became a marine painter. He produced works to commission, and was little exhibited during his lifetime. Butterworth was born on the Isle of Wight. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in London in 1795, and served on HMS ""Caroline"" during the wars with France, before being invalided home from Menorca in 1800. The National Maritime Museum in London has 27 watercolours by him, several of which are mounted on sheets from 18th century printed signal and muster books. He went"
"worth doing, he considered worth doing well; doing with all his heart and with all his soul."" Henry Mark Anthony Henry Mark Anthony (4 August 1817 – 1 December 1886) was an English landscape artist, often favourably compared to John Constable by critics. He exhibited at many major art institutions and travelled widely, being credited with introducing the ""en plein air"" style of painting to Britain. Anthony was born at Rusholme Lane, Manchester, of Welsh ancestry, and was the second son of John Anthony, merchant, and his wife, Phoebe. The family moved to Cowbridge, Glamorgan (in Wales), around 1823. Anthony"
"work has been detailed in the book: ""Thomas Somerscales, Marine Artist"" by Alex A. Hurst. Thomas Somerscales Thomas Jacques Somerscales (born in Kingston upon Hull on 29 October 1842; died 27 June 1927) was an English teacher, sailor, and landscape and marine painter. He is also considered a Chilean painter as he began his career as an artist there. Many of his landscapes evoke the region and many of his marine paintings feature notable events in Chilean naval history and have become patriotic national icons in that country. His father was a shipmaster, who sketched, and his uncle was an"
"and became a landscape painter on the advice of Francesco Zuccarelli. Painting in Italy and afterwards in Britain, he was the first major British painter to concentrate on landscape. He composed well, but saw and rendered only the general effects of nature, thereby creating a personal, ideal style influenced by Claude Lorrain and the Dutch landscape tradition. John Ruskin wrote that Wilson ""paints in a manly way, and occasionally reaches exquisite tones of colour"". He concentrated on painting idealised Italianate landscapes and landscapes based upon classical literature, but when his painting, ""The Destruction of the Children of Niobe"" (c.1759–60), won"
"by the National Gallery. Most of Turner's works eventually moved to the Tate Gallery in the early 20th century, but ""Dido building Carthage"" and ""Sun rising through Vapour"" remain at the National Gallery, shown with the Claudes; a few other selected works by Turner, including ""Rain, Steam and Speed"" and ""The Fighting Temeraire"" remain as examples of English painting at the National Gallery. Dido building Carthage Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire is an oil on canvas painting by J. M. W. Turner. The painting is one of Turner's most important works, greatly influenced by the"
"Henrietta Rae Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (30 December 1859 – 26 January 1928) was a prominent English painter of the late Victorian era, who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her best-known painting is ""The Lady with the Lamp"" (1891); depicting Florence Nightingale at Scutari. Henrietta Rae was born on 30 December 1859 in Hammersmith, London, to Thomas Burbey Rae, a civil servant, and Ann Eliza Rae (), a musician who had been a student of Felix Mendelssohn. She had three brothers and three sisters. Rae began formally studying art at the age of thirteen, being educated at the"
"era one might look to the popular fictional series by Patrick O'Brian which follows naval officer Captain Aubrey and his companion Maturin during the Napoleonic Wars or the Hornblower Saga by C.S. Forester which follows Horatio Hornblower as his career in the British navy progresses (also during the Napoleonic Wars). Whatever the reason, a new group of marine artists now made their way onto the scene. Landscape painters found inspiration in the sea and began to create work which was not always accurate, but which could be sold among the less technically sea-savvy art collectors in England. British marine paintings"
"someone from his circle painted the staffage in the landscapes of the Italian landscape painter Giovanni Battista Vicino. In many of his battle scenes and harbour views his brother Lucas painted the landscapes while Cornelis in turn added the figures to Lucas' paintings. He also left many drawings some of which are part of collection of the Louvre and the British Museum. The British Museum holds an album of 53 drawings dating from 1640-1650 which covers mainly military subjects. These drawings are generally more direct and are often signed or inscribed. It is difficult to trace the evolution in his"
"the dedication ""This book is dedicated to a wise and gentle lady who looks out upon life from a terrace"", while ""A Winter Holiday in Portugal"" has ""This book is dedicated to a lady, fair and gracious who lives in Lisbon"". He was a Justice of the Peace for Suffolk. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Historical Society. Baker died in Beccles in 1957. Bernard Granville Baker Bernard Granville Baker (23 October 1870 – 12 March 1957) (known as B. Granville Baker) was a British soldier and painter specialising in military subjects."
"J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14,"
"Thomas Somerscales Thomas Jacques Somerscales (born in Kingston upon Hull on 29 October 1842; died 27 June 1927) was an English teacher, sailor, and landscape and marine painter. He is also considered a Chilean painter as he began his career as an artist there. Many of his landscapes evoke the region and many of his marine paintings feature notable events in Chilean naval history and have become patriotic national icons in that country. His father was a shipmaster, who sketched, and his uncle was an amateur painter. However he had no formal training as an artist and originally became a"
"William Collins (painter) William Collins (8 September 1788 in London – 17 February 1847 in London) was an English landscape and genre painter. His sentimental paintings of poor people enjoying nature became a posthumous high fashion, notably in the 1870s when his market price rose higher than Constable (Cromer Sands, £3780, 1872) and stayed so until 1894. Turner, his model, far exceeded him in value (The Grand Canal, Venice, sold to Vanderbilt in 1885 for £20,000). ( Collins was born in Great Titchfield Street, London, son of William Collins Sr., an Irish-born picture-dealer and writer. He showed a great aptitude"
"Thomas Whitcombe Thomas Whitcombe (possibly 19 May 1763 – c. 1824) was a prominent British maritime painter of the Napoleonic Wars. Among his work are over 150 actions of the Royal Navy, and he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists. His pictures are highly sought after today. Thomas Whitcombe was born in London between 1752 and 19 May 1763, with the latter date frequently cited. Little is known of his background or training, although speculation based on the locations depicted in his paintings may provide some clues. It is known that"
"his own work. His use of light effects, particularly the contrasts between the sun's rays and the dark clouds, or the fire against the smoke of battle, convey the drama and activity of a sea battle. Although technically accurate and meticulous, his artistic talents were somewhat eclipsed by the greatest of his peers, and it is his contribution to the historical record that is his greatest legacy. He exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1780 and the Royal Academy in 1782, continuing to exhibit there regularly until 1809. Robert Dodd (artist) Robert Dodd (1748–1815) was a British marine painter"
"other ships right across the foreground. Both sides are shown heroically fighting the sea itself as well as each other, intensifying both and giving the event drama as well as human scale, as well as showing the British sailor as compassionate to his defeated enemy. Compared to Turner's later pendant, the painting is an unequivocally heroic image and its overall style is conventionally patriotic. Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June is a 1795 painting by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg of the victory of British naval forces under Lord Howe"
"Francesco Zuccarelli Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli (commonly known as Francesco Zuccarelli, ; 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788) RA, was an Italian artist of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He is considered to be the most important landscape painter to have emerged from his adopted city of Venice during the mid-eighteenth century, and his Arcadian views became popular throughout Europe and especially in England where he resided for two extended periods. His patronage extended to the nobility, and he often collaborated with other artists such as Antonio Visentini and Bernardo Bellotto. In 1768, Zuccarelli became a founding member of"
"which cast a particular light. Favourite subjects were the dunes along the western sea coast, rivers with their broad adjoining meadows where cattle grazed, often with the silhouette of a city in the distance. Winter landscapes with frozen canals and creeks also abounded. The sea was a favourite topic as well since the Low Countries depended on it for trade, battled with it for new land, and battled on it with competing nations. Important early figures in the move to realism were Esaias van de Velde (1587–1630) and Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634), both also mentioned above as genre painters – in"
"and another which was used as a book cover. William Lakin Turner William Lakin Turner (25 February 1867 – 21 October 1936) was an English landscape artist. William Lakin Turner was born to George Turner and his wife, Eliza Turner (born Lakin) (1837–1900) in 1867 in Barrow upon Trent. He was educated locally before he boarded at Trent College. He was the eldest of four children and his talent for art followed his father's abilities. His father was a part-time farmer but he also painted landscapes and he had a number of successful students including David Payne and Louis Bosworth"