The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed
by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Title
The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed
Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
It shows a view of the harbour of Dordrecht. It is the finest example of the influence of Dutch marine painting on Turner's work. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1818, where it was described by The Morning Chronicle as "one of the most magnificent pictures ever exhibited, and does honour to the age". In 1832, John Constable wrote of the picture, "I remember most of Turner's early works; amongst them one of singular intricacy and beauty; it was a canal with numerous boats making thousands of beautiful shapes, and I think the most complete work of a genius I ever saw". It was purchased by Walter Fawkes for 500 guineas at the request of his son, and hung in the drawing room at Farnley Hall until it was bought by Paul Mellon in 1966. It was then donated to the Yale Center for British Artupon the founding of the centre. Turner was born in London and was sent to live with his uncle when his mother became mentally unstable. He began drawing at the age of ten and his father sold them in his barber and wig shop. At fourteen he entered the Royal Academy of Art schools, and into the Academy itself the next year when he had his first exhibition. He traveled to Paris and Switzerland in 1802 and attracted several friends and patrons in his Twenties. He grew more eccentric with age and never married. He lived with his father for thirty years and, after his father’s death in 1829, was subject to depression. He had at least two romantic liaisons and died in 1851 at the house of his lover for eighteen years. This painting is an oil no canvas and measures 62 by 92 inches. It is in the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.
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