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Turner on Tour

3 rd November 2022 - 19 th February 2023

Lauded by the Impressionists decades after his passing – his name attached to Britain’s most prestigious contemporary art prize – JMW Turner has long been acclaimed to be the greatest painter to have emerged from these isles. Famously, the pugnacious Londoner bequeathed his life’s work to the nation so as to ensure a place among art history’s pantheon. In 1914, the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick acquired two magnificent Turner river and harbour paintings he produced during the 1820s following his travels around Europe. For almost a century, the monumental canvases have resided in the United States. Now, finally, they have been allowed to return to these shores for a three-month exhibition at the National Gallery.

Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile (exhibited 1825, subsequently dated 1826) and Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat (1826) each attest to Turner being drawn towards ports and harbours, whilst also throwing into focus the artist’s admiration for the 17 th -century French landscape pioneer, Claude Lorrain. In the early 1820s, the Englishman made two visits to the port of Dieppe before returning across the channel to create the painting of the Normandy location in his London studio. Later that same decade, he would visit the historic German city of Cologne, leading to the second large canvas one finds at the current small but impressive show. Each would be unveiled at the Royal Academy in 1825 and 1826 respectively.

Travelling extensively around Europe, Turner produced sketchbooks of drawings with those rich visual experiences informing his distinctive approach to colour, light and brushstrokes so evident in both the Dieppe and Cologne paintings. Always intended to accompany each other, the imposing works clearly mirror Claude Lorrain’s seaports’ horizontal format, with the Englishman imitating the former’s method of using light to create aerial perspective. At 24, Turner famously exclaimed tearfully, having encountered Lorrain’s Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba , “I shall never be able to paint anything like that picture”, only to create his own port masterpiece, Dido building Carthage in 1815 . One of the joys of this exhibition is that the visitor is able to contemplate all of these in close proximity.

Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile sees Turner depicting a bustling, dynamic centre of trade. For him, ports were restless, cultural melting pots where nature and the man-made came together. A brilliant, haze-inducing afternoon sun provides the entire scene with warmth. Evoked is a fishing community where nothing has changed for centuries, contrasting starkly with the artist’s rapidly industrialising homeland. A seemingly infinite throng of masts soar from merchant vessels laden with goods. Turner has notably layered the reflections created on the water with subtly variegated hues. On the right, some small boats appear so heaped with wine, baskets and paintings as to be close to capsizing. The old city’s elegant 18t h -century houses which line the Quai Henri IV are rendered in impressive detail with a thriving outdoor market evident.

Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat also brings to the fore the English painter’s increasing deployment from the 1820s onwards of transparent luminous effects that would come to defy realism. Set at dusk, it is an altogether more sombre picture. At the beating heart are two large sailed vessels bringing swarms of tourists to the ancient city with its mediaeval walls and vertiginous cathedral. The vibrancy of the revelling visitors contrasts with the handful of labourers, a single dog quenching its thirst at the water’s edge and ruins. Somewhat disturbingly, in the foreground can be seen a peculiar, tentacled form emerging from the water that to modern eyes might be said to resemble a Louise Bourgeois spider, though actually representing rusting fishing equipment.

In these two stunning paintings, one finds an emboldened Turner in his early fifties, starting to bring about the transition in his practice which would ultimately take him to the cusp of abstraction. They also testify to the artist’s thrill at being able to explore the European continent in search of inspiration and ideas following the cessation of the Napoleonic Wars. The rare opportunity this exhibition affords to view these paintings in the UK should be embraced.

James White Image: The Frick Collection, New York

Turner on Tour is at the National Gallery from 3 rd November until 19 th February 2023. For further information visit the exhibition’s website here .

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Almost every summer for over 50 years, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) travelled around the UK and Europe, sketching countless sources of inspiration as he went. His surviving sketchbooks – almost 300 in total – illustrate how these journeys fired his imagination and were used to develop his oil paintings, watercolours and engraving designs.

Following trips to France and Germany in the early 1820s, during which he filled many sketchbooks, Turner portrayed the busy harbours of Dieppe and Cologne in two boundary-pushing paintings, Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile and Cologne , the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening .

The two masterpieces were acquired by Henry Clay Frick in 1914 and have remained in The Frick Collection, New York, ever since. Turner on Tour marks the return of these paintings to the UK for the first time in over a century and explores the much-loved British painter’s reputation as a travelling artist, his lifelong fascination with ports and harbours, and his radical approach to colour, light and brushwork.

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Christine Riding is the Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of British Paintings at the National Gallery, London.

Thomas Ardill is Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings at the Museum of London.

Aimee Ng is Curator at The Frick Collection, New York.

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For the first time in a century, two ground-breaking paintings by Turner are coming home for a special exhibition.

The pair – 'Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile' and 'Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening' – left Britain for New York in 1914, when they were acquired by the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick, and where they have remained masterpieces of the Frick Collection since.

Turner was famous for being an artist traveller – he toured Europe every year, voraciously filling his sketchbook with studies of continental cities, despite the often-arduous journeys it took to get there. He painted the Frick works in his London studio following trips to France and Germany in the early 1820s.

Showing the busy harbours of Dieppe and Cologne – the gateways of two major tours of Europe – the Frick paintings demonstrate Turner’s life-long fascination with the subject of ports and harbours as dynamic, transitional places, as well as his radical approach to colour, light and brushwork.

When the paintings were first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825 and 1826 respectively, both critics and the public alike were shocked by the golden sunlight which beams from the monumental canvases.

Two centuries later, the paintings still dazzle. Bringing them to a new generation, this exhibition presents the unique opportunity to view the pair under the same roof as the Claude paintings which may have directly inspired them, as well as other much-loved works by Turner from the National Gallery Collection.

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This exhibition CLOSED on Sun, 19th Feb 2023

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Cost: Free of Charge

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For the first time in a century, two ground-breaking paintings by Turner are coming home for a special exhibition. The pair - 'Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile' and 'Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening' - left Britain for New York in 1914, when they were acquired by the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick, and where they have remained masterpieces of the Frick Collection since. Turner was famous for being an artist traveller – he toured Europe every year, voraciously filling his sketchbook with studies of continental cities, despite the often-arduous journeys it took to get there. He painted the Frick works in his London studio following trips to France and Germany in the early 1820s. Showing the busy harbours of Dieppe and Cologne- the gateways of two major tours of Europe – the Frick paintings demonstrate Turner's life-long fascination with the subject of ports and harbours as dynamic, transitional places, as well as his radical approach to colour, light and brushwork. When the paintings were first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825 and 1826 respectively, both critics and the public alike were shocked by the golden sunlight which beams from the monumental canvases. Two centuries later, the paintings still dazzle. Bringing them to a new generation, this exhibition presents the unique opportunity to view the pair under the same roof as the Claude paintings which may have directly inspired them, as well as other much-loved works by Turner from the National Gallery Collection. Ian has visited - review here .

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Turner on Tour

For the first time in a century, two ground-breaking paintings by Turner are coming home for a special exhibition.

The pair – ‘Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile’ and ‘Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening’ – left Britain for New York in 1914, when they were acquired by the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick, and where they have remained masterpieces of the Frick Collection since.

Turner was famous for being an artist traveller – he toured Europe every year, voraciously filling his sketchbook with studies of continental cities, despite the often-arduous journeys it took to get there. He painted the Frick works in his London studio following trips to France and Germany in the early 1820s.

Showing the busy harbours of Dieppe and Cologne – the gateways of two major tours of Europe – the Frick paintings demonstrate Turner’s life-long fascination with the subject of ports and harbours as dynamic, transitional places, as well as his radical approach to colour, light and brushwork.

When the paintings were first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825 and 1826 respectively, both critics and the public alike were shocked by the golden sunlight which beams from the monumental canvases.

Two centuries later, the paintings still dazzle. Bringing them to a new generation, this exhibition presents the unique opportunity to view the pair under the same roof as the Claude paintings which may have directly inspired them, as well as other much-loved works by Turner from the National Gallery Collection.

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