In just over a decade, his watercolour landscapes rivalled those of his contemporary JMW Turner. What could he have achieved had he not died at the age of only 27?
Turner
Paintings by Magnasco, Claude Vernet, a print by Hokusai, and more by Turner, Peder Balke, Clarkson Stanfield, Courbet, Gainsborough, and Daubigny.
Revived in the 19th century, stories painted by JMW Turner, Camille Corot, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Lovis Corinth, Aksel Johannessen and Thomas Hart Benton.
Paintings by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, Virginie Demont-Breton, Lepic, Boudin, Carpentier, Eugène Isabey, Jongkind, Monet, and others.
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.
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.
