Young Turner: Early Work to 1800 : Watercolours and Drawings from the Turner Bequest, 1787-1800

Arts & Photography

Lyles, Anne

Individual Artists

Tate Gallery Pubn

Focusing on the works of J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and their contemporaries, this richly illustrated book explores the development, variety, and innovation of the landscape oil sketch in British art, beginning with its appearance in the 1770s. With insight into the different modes used for oil sketching in this period―a time when working en plein air was still comparatively unusual―the authors show how each practitioner approached similar subjects. The result is an accessible introduction to the techniques of sketching and the often surprising connections that can be drawn among the artists involved. The book features some 60 works from the Tate collection by Turner, Constable, George Stubbs, William Henry Hunt, and many others.

Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature

Rosenthal, Michael

Tate

This book, the first in a series of catalogues to examine Turner's work on paper decade by decade, investigates his work as a draughtsman and watercolourist in the early years of his career. The selection of works, drawn chiefly from the resources of the Clore Gallery, shows the astonishing speed with which Turner developed from modest beginnings as a boy of twelve into an artist of extraordinary range and ability by the age of twenty-five. All aspects of Turner's varied output are represented, from life studies drawn at the Royal Academy schools, and watercolours of picturesque scenery made after his return from tours throughout Britain, to the large watercolours of the North Welsh mountains of circa 1798-1799, unrivaled for expressive grandeur and subtlety of atmospheric effect.

Young Turner: Early Work to 1800

History & Criticism

Tate Gallery

Physical description; 83 pages : illustrations, some color ; 27 cm. Subjects; English engravings - Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) - 1775-1851 - Catalogues, indexes. Painters, English - 18th century.

Colour into line: Turner and the art of engraving

Turner: The Fifth Decade : Watercolours, 1830-1840

The Norwich Society of Artists held meetings and ran exhibitions from about 1803 to 1833. Crome and Cotman were leading figures in the Society and their pupils, including Stark and Vincent, became successful in their own right. Although their work was purchased by major British patrons, they were also sustained by the enthusiasm of local collectors for their original portrayal of rural scenes. Cotman was an early master of the new fashion for painting outdoors and produced an outstanding body of watercolors during his periods of residence in Norfolk.

Romantic Landscapes: The Norwich School of Painters

Brown, David Blayney

HEMINGWAY, Andrew

The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of expression for some of the Romantic era's greatest artists, among them Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. The painters of the next generation were no less ambitious, and the range of subject-matter and technical inventiveness that was sustained for much of the Victorian period was to set a standard in watercolour painting that was without equal abroad. In this magnificently illustrated survey of the great age of British watercolours, Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles trace the development of attitudes to landscape and to the human figure in the landscape from 1750 to 1880. They show how once the traditional pen and ink drawing and its augmented washes of colour had been abandoned in order to paint directly in watercolours without pen outlines, the way was open for the powerful Romantic landscapes of the following decade and beyond, many of which were painted in the wild mountainous regions of Wales and Scotland. During the nineteenth century, as the gilt-framed exhibition watercolour began to challenge the long-established oil painting in terms of size and in brilliance of colour and effect, the range of subject-matter was broadened to include scenes of country and town life from every part of Britain and, increasingly, from the Continent too. By mid-century the Near East was attracting many of the greatest Victorian watercolourists, including J. E. Lewis, David Roberts and Edward Lear. Other leading Victorians who regularly worked in watercolour include the Pre-Raphaelite painters John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, and the American-born James McNeill Whistler, all of whom are included in this book.

The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

WILTON, Andrew

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Painting

Prestel Pub

The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of expression for some of the Romantic era's greatest artists, among them Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. The painters of the next generation were no less ambitious, and the range of subject-matter and technical inventiveness that was sustained for much of the Victorian period was to set a standard in watercolour painting that was without equal abroad. In this magnificently illustrated survey of the great age of British watercolours, Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles trace the development of attitudes to landscape and to the human figure in the landscape from 1750 to 1880. They show how once the traditional pen and ink drawing and its augmented washes of colour had been abandoned in order to paint directly in watercolours without pen outlines, the way was open for the powerful Romantic landscapes of the following decade and beyond, many of which were painted in the wild mountainous regions of Wales and Scotland. During the nineteenth century, as the gilt-framed exhibition watercolour began to challenge the long-established oil painting in terms of size and in brilliance of colour and effect, the range of subject-matter was broadened to include scenes of country and town life from every part of Britain and, increasingly, from the Continent too. By mid-century the Near East was attracting many of the greatest Victorian watercolourists, including J. E. Lewis, David Roberts and Edward Lear. Other leadingVictorians who regularly worked in watercolour include the Pre-Raphaelite painters John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, and the American-born James McNeill Whistler, all of whom are included in this book.

Now available in a flexi format, this book is a magnificent survey of watercolour masterpieces from artists such as Turner, Blake, Constable, and Whistler. This beautiful volume documents an important moment in the history of the watercolour, as its practitioners moved from the tinted drawings to the creation of fully fledged works of art that rivaled oil paintings in their expressiveness and technical brilliance. With its rolling hills, cloud-laden skies and ever-shifting light, Britain was the perfect setting for such a revolution, as artists packed sketchbooks, brushes and paints, and headed for the countryside. Authors Wilton and Lyles document the evolution of the British watercolour, from the more classically inspired eighteenth-century landscapes to the vivid experiments in Naturalism and Romanticism, with their concomitant studies in light and atmosphere. Over 300 exquisite reproductions allow readers to appreciate the delicate colours and fine lines of these important works, while the authors' authoritative and eminently readable texts enhance the overall experience of witnessing the birth of an independent medium, and some of the most breathtaking examples of watercolours the world has ever known.

British Watercolours: 1750-1880

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Prestel

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Young Turner: Early Work to 1800 : Watercolours and Drawings from the Turner Bequest, 1787-1800

Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature

Young Turner: Early Work to 1800

Colour into line: Turner and the art of engraving

Turner: The Fifth Decade : Watercolours, 1830-1840

Romantic Landscapes: The Norwich School of Painters

The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880

The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880

British Watercolours: 1750-1880