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Turner in Holland
1801
Turner's first outstanding marine picture in oil, he set the seal on his fame with this
painting
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| Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Clearing and Selling Fish, 1807
National Gallery, London. |
The Rotterdam Ferry Boat, 1833, National Gallery of
Art, Washington |
The Prince of Orange, William 111, Embarked from Holland and Landed at Torbay
1832 |
Van Goyen Looking out for a Subject, Antwerp; 1833,
The Frink Collection, New York |
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| He must be a painter of strength of nature, there was no beauty elsewhere
than in that; he must paint also the labour and sorrow and passing away of man:
this was the great human truth visible to him. . . . Labour; by sea and land, in
the field and city, at forge and furnace, helm and plough. No pastoral indolence
nor classic pride shall stand between him and the troubling of the world; still
less between him and the toil of his county,- blind, tormented, unwearied, marvelous
England. John Ruskin Modern Painters, ( John Ruskin was the great champion of
Turner, he was always informing the world how great Turner was.) |
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| Van Tromp Returning after the Battle off the Dogger bank, 1833.
Tate Gallery |
Van Tromp's Shallop, at the Entrance of the Scheldt, 1832 |
Admiral Van Tromp's Barge at the Entrance of the Texel 1645,
Exhibited 1831 |
Fishing Boats Bringing a Disabled Ship into Port Ruysdael,
1827,
Tate Gallery |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, President
of the Royal Academy when Turner was
first a member, declared that painters should go to the Dutch School to learn
the art of paintings as they would go to grammar school to learn languages.
Turners first trip abroad in 1802 was to study Dutch art at the Louvre
in Paris where Napoleon had acquired much treasure from his wars. Turner was
also to travel in the steps of Napoleon in 1817, from which he later exhibited
the anti-war painting 'The Fields of Waterloo'.
When Turner was shown a print by the Dutch artist Van de Velde,
he said 'that made me a painter'. During his travels to Holland in 1817, 1825,
1840/41/42, Turner made more than 600 drawings. Some for later development into
the wonderful marine paintings we have today.
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