1843
oil
canvas
From the collection of National Gallery
Dominant colour
The Sun of Venice Going to Sea is a 1843 oil by Joseph Mallord William Turner, depicting Sky, held at National Gallery.
The painting shows a hazy view of the sea with a large ship in the center. The ship has three sails, and the middle one is white with some writing on it. There are some smaller boats on either side of the ship. The sky above is light and cloudy. The colors in the painting are mostly shades of yellow, orange, and brown. The ship seems to be moving, and the sails are full of wind. The smaller boats are also moving, but they are harder to see because of the haze. The painting has a lot of texture, especially in the water and the sky. This painting is a great example of J.M.W. Turner's use of light and color. If you want to see more of his work, check out J.M.W. Turner.
The Sun of Venice Going to Sea is an 1843 seascape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. It shows a fishing vessel heading out to sea from Venice, with its name The Sol di Venezia emblazoned on its sails. It was one of a large number of works Turner produced with views of Venice, then part of the Austrian Empire, in his later career. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843 at the National Gallery in London]]. Turner's admirer John Ruskin was particularly impressed by it. It formed part of the Turner Bequest of 1856 to the nation and is now in the collection…
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In Modern Painters (1903), John Ruskin extols the depiction of the boat's reflection on the water: A stream of splendid colour fell from the boat, but that occupied the centre only; in the distance the city and crowded boats threw down some playing lines, but these still left on each side of the boat a large space of water reflecting nothing but the morning sky. This was divided by an eddying swell, on whose continuous sides the local colour of the water was seen, pure aquamarine (a beautiful occurrence of closely observed truth); but still there remained a large blank space of pale water to…
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Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in 1775 at Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, where his father kept a barber and wig-making shop.
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