A journey along the Channel coast from Land’s End in the far west, reaching the Isle of Wight, with Clarkson Stanfield, Thomas Girtin, John Brett, Paul Nash, JMW Turner and others.
Turner
His major painting of Wellington’s triumph fails and cost him dearly. Equestrian and dog portraits pay the bills, and his painterly oil sketches remain innovative.
An early painting of an eruption in 1631, later works by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, Albert Bierstadt, Charles Caryl Coleman and others.
Some innovative sketches and studies, with a series of major commissions including his huge landscape of Gordale Scar that wouldn’t fit.
Largely self-taught, in the early 19th century stood alongside Constable and Turner. Prolific painter of the countryside, with wonderful oil sketches, and farm animals.
After escaping from Polyphemus, Odysseus’ crew release a bag of winds, resulting in all except for his ship being eaten by cannibals. They then reach Circe’s island, where she wants to turn them all into pigs.
Constable’s painterly sketches were never intended to be seen by the public, but JMW Turner’s later works are rich in marks, scratches and radical in appearance.
After killing the usurper Pelias, Jason and Medea flee to live in Corinth. But he is offered the hand of Glauce, so abandons Medea, and their lives fall apart.
The story of Dibutades who painted the outline of her boyfriend’s shadow, leading to early struggles with the optics of cast shadows, their use as cues to depth and shape, and appearance in landscapes. Paintings of shadow play.
Paintings from 19th century masters including JMW Turner, the Swiss specialist Alexandre Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and Gustave Courbet in exile.
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