We explore the pretty town of Petworth here. The two other Carved Room landscapes were scenes connected to the 3rd Earl: Chichester Canal , and Brighton from the Sea , featuring the Chain Pier that Wyndham had part financed, both painted between and Complete with frame, this painting stands at more than four metres tall.
In November, Tate Britain will stage Constable and Turner , an exhibition that will explore the rivalry between two of the leading British artists of the early 19th century, and the way they used landscape art to reflect the changing world around them.
The Whitworth Art Gallery holds one of the most important collections of Turner watercolours outside of London, and these will be paired with works from the Liber Studiorum.
In , art collector Henry Vaughan left 38 Turner watercolours in his will to the National Galleries of Scotland, stipulating they must be shown all together and only in January, when daylight is at its weakest, to prevent the delicate works fading. A treasure of the Edinburgh collection is The Piazzetta, Venice , circa his final visit to the Italian city in , where scrapes of white paper dramatically highlight the canalside scene, capturing the elements and the atmosphere.
We go behind the scenes at Harewood House here. The young artist discovered his love of landscapes on a sketching trip from Harewood. The early 19th-century Sudley House contains the only intact collection of artworks once owned by a merchant family, including three late Turners.
