Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Van Tromp Returning after Battle off Dogger Bank
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Dogger Bank, Battle, 6 Jul 1652
history
military
sea
seascapes and coasts
ship, warship
society
storm
transport: water
wave
weather
<p>The tradition of Dutch sea paintings was an important influence on Turner’s seascapes (known as ‘marine’ paintings). In the early 1830s Turner made a series of paintings inspired by 17th-century painters such as Willem Van de Velde, who took subjects from naval history. Turner may have been making a topical reference to the 1831 Belgian Revolution. This resulted in Belgium becoming an independent country from the Netherlands.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2020</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
23 July 2001 – 16 June 2002
2002-06-16
23 July 2001 – 16 June 2002
2002-06-16
2001-07-23
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-07-23
Painting Seascapes
Collection based display
22 July 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-07-22
Finished or Unfinished
Collection based display
12 August 2009 – 27 July 2010
2010-07-27
12 August 2009 – 27 July 2010
2010-07-27
2009-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-12
Waves, Whalers and Wrecks
Collection based display
1 April 2012 – 31 August 2013
2013-08-31
1 April 2012 – 31 August 2013
2013-08-31
2012-04-01
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Norwich, UK)
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
2012-04-01
Turner and Crome
Loan-out
1 August 2016 – 1 March 2020
2020-03-01
1 August 2016 – 1 March 2020
2020-03-01
2016-08-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2016-08-01
Clore 104 Turner exhibited
Collection based display
26 September 2022 – 15 September 2023
2023-09-15
26 September 2022 – 15 September 2023
2023-09-15
2022-09-26
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2022-09-26
JMW Turner and Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters
Collection based display
28 October 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
28 October 2023 – 10 March 2024
2024-03-10
2023-10-28
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich, Germany)
2023-10-28
Turner at Lenbachhaus Munich
Loan-out
Van Tromp Returning after the Battle off the Dogger Bank
support: 905 × 1206 mm
frame: 1054 × 1352 × 95 mm, 31 kg
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<p>The tradition of Dutch sea paintings was an important influence on Turner’s seascapes (known as ‘marine’ paintings). In the early 1830s Turner made a series of paintings inspired by 17th-century painters such as Willem Van de Velde, who took subjects from naval history. Turner may have been making a topical reference to the 1831 Belgian Revolution. This resulted in Belgium becoming an independent country from the Netherlands.</p>
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<p><b>351. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-van-tromp-returning-after-the-battle-off-the-dogger-bank-n00537" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00537</span></a>]<b> Van Tromp returning after the Battle off the Dogger Bank Exh.</b> 1833</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (537)</p>
<p>Canvas, 35 5/8 × 47 1/2 (90·5 × 121)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (35, ‘Van Tromp’ 4'0" × 3'0"); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1929.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> R.A. 1833 (146); Edinburgh 1968 (11); Lisbon 1973 (13, repr.); Leningrad and Moscow 1975–6 (60).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Carey 1899, pp. 173–5, repr.; Bell 1901, p. 122 no. 186; Armstrong 1902, p. 231; Davies 1946, p. 186; Cunningham 1952, pp. 323–30, pl. 4; Finberg 1961, pp. 340, 494 no. 386; Wilton 1979, pp. 216–7.</p>
<p>Number 1 in Turner's list of titles for his 1833 R.A. exhibits (Tate Gallery archives).</p>
<p>For ‘Van’ Tromp and the former confusion between Turner's pictures see Nos. 339 and 344. The Battle of the Dogger Bank did not in fact take place until 1781.</p>
<p>As noted in the entries for Nos. 348 and 350, this was one of 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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> in which a number of reviewers of the R.A. in 1833 noted a return to a cooler palette. The <i>Morning Herald</i> for 6 June wrote of this work, ‘Clear, broad and chaste in colour and effect—the bright straw colour has disappeared from this master's new works, which is a great advantage; they have more of a silvery <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tone" title="Glossary definition for 'Tone'"><span>tone</span></a>, which harmonizes better with his subjects.’ To the critic of the <i>Morning Chronicle</i> ‘Liston standing up in a boat is very funny’—presumably a reference to the comic actor John Liston (?1776–1846).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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Dogger Bank, Battle, 6 Jul 1652 history military sea seascapes and coasts ship, warship society storm transport: water wave weather