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Scene at Lutworth — Joseph Mallord William Turner

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Written by: Nil TunaResearcher · Old Master Paintings
Old Master Drawings · Catalogue no. 169814
Joseph Mallord William Turner

Scene at Lutworth

StatusReference work · Not for sale
Held byArt Institute of Chicago
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Artist / MakerJoseph Mallord William Turner
Date1870/80
Culture / OriginEngland
MediumWatercolor and gouache with scraping, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on board
Dimensions39.3 × 48.3 cm (15 1/2 × 19 1/16 in.)
DepartmentPrints and Drawings
TypeDrawing and Watercolor
About the Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner, the supreme landscape painter of the romantic era, had the exceptional good fortune to be the son of a Covent Garden barber and wigmaker who thoroughly supported his aspirations to paint pictures. As an adolescent, Turner colored engravings for the print sellers and apprenticed with architectural draftsman Thomas Malton (1726-1801). Although he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1789, Turner's substantive artistic training came from his numerous self-conducted topographical drawing tours of the British Isles in… Full biography →

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Image & data: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0 / Public Domain.

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