Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-turner-of-oxford-559" aria-label="More by William Turner of Oxford" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William Turner of Oxford</a>
A Water Mill
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons 1854
adults
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: mammals
architecture
dog - non-specific
industrial
landscape
man
objects
people
stream
water: inland
watermill
wheelbarrow
wooded
<p>William Turner was an Oxford-based artist who painted in watercolour and oils. He produced landscapes that reflected the full variety of contemporary taste. This is a rather belated exercise in the ‘Picturesque’, the aesthetic ideal that dominated landscape painting in the late eighteenth century.</p><p>The Picturesque stressed the appeal of variety, decay and historical associations. Old farm buildings, rugged taverns and ruins often featured in such landscapes. These motifs were clichés by William Turner’s time, but the idyllic view of the countryside embodied in Picturesque landscapes proved enduring. It is familiar even today.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
22 October 2001 – 23 March 2003
2003-03-23
22 October 2001 – 23 March 2003
2003-03-23
2001-10-22
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-22
Landscape and Empire
Collection based display
1 April 2003 – 12 July 2004
2004-07-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-01
Images of Rural Life
Collection based display
3 February 2009 – 25 April 2009
2009-04-25
3 February 2009 – 26 April 2009
2009-04-26
2009-02-03
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-02-03
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009
Exhibition
A Water Mill
support: 533 × 673 mm
frame: 730 × 882 × 80 mm
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons 1854
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<span class="text14">William Turner was an Oxford-based </span><span class="text13">artist who painted in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> and oils.</span><span class="text0"> He produced <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> that reflected the full variety of      contemporary taste. This is a rather belated exercise in the      ‘<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/picturesque" title="Glossary definition for 'Picturesque'"><span>Picturesque</span></a>’, the aesthetic ideal that dominated landscape      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> in the late eighteenth century. </span>
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<span class="text0">The Picturesque stressed the appeal of </span><span class="text13">variety, decay and historical associations</span><span class="text0">. Old farm buildings, rugged taverns and ruins often featured in      such landscapes. These motifs were clichés by William Turner’s      time, but the idyllic view of the countryside embodied in Picturesque </span><span class="text14">landscapes proved enduring. It is familiar even today.</span><span class="text0"> 
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adults agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: mammals architecture dog - non-specific industrial landscape man objects people stream water: inland watermill wheelbarrow wooded