J M W
TURNER
Great Britain
1775
–
1851
90.2 (h) x 121.3 (w) cm Tate Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 Photo: © Tate 2013
In this sketch Turner animates the composition, filling the sky with cloud and smoke, and creating dramatic diagonals in the figures and waves below. Turner enhances this sense of frantic motion in the final painting where he turned the ship towards the viewer and filled its sails with wind. A calmer image of pomp and ceremony may have been more to King George IV’s taste: he later had the finished painting removed from St James Palace to Greenwich.
In this sketch Turner animates the composition, filling the sky with cloud and smoke, and creating dramatic diagonals in the figures and waves below. Turner enhances this sense of frantic motion in the final painting where he turned the ship towards the viewer and filled its sails with wind. A calmer image of pomp and ceremony may have been more to King George IV’s taste: he later had the finished painting removed from St James Palace to Greenwich.
In this sketch Turner animates the composition, filling the sky with cloud and smoke, and creating dramatic diagonals in the figures and waves below. Turner enhances this sense of frantic motion in the final painting where he turned the ship towards the viewer and filled its sails with wind. A calmer image of pomp and ceremony may have been more to King George IV’s taste: he later had the finished painting removed from St James Palace to Greenwich.
