Oil paint on canvas
Hampshire
Tate Britain
Tate Collection
Works with images
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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>
Arrival LouisPhilippe at Royal Clarence Yard Gosport 8 October 1844
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
boat - non-specific
cloud
crowd
England
England, South East
England, Southern
figure
groups
Hampshire
harbour
history
natural phenomena
people
places
politics and society
Portsmouth
royalty: Louis-Phillipe, visit to Britain, Oct 1844
sea
seascapes and coasts
smoke
society
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
<p>This pair of unfinished paintings was long thought to depict Venice. We now think they show the arrival in Portsmouth of French king Louis-Philippe in October 1844 for his state visit to Queen Victoria. These paintings hum with energy. The crowds that met the King upon his arrival in Portsmouth can be made out on the left and right of both scenes. Turner probably witnessed the proceedings from a boat. Even if Turner had completed these paintings his uncompromising late style – putting colour and atmosphere before immediate legibility – would almost certainly have been ridiculed in the press.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2023</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
30 July 2001 – 30 June 2002
2002-06-30
30 July 2001 – 30 June 2002
2002-06-30
2001-07-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-07-30
Painting Venice
Collection based display
9 October 2003 – 30 May 2004
2004-05-30
9 October 2003 – 11 January 2004
2004-01-11
2003-10-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-10-09
Turner and Venice
Exhibition
1 June 2007 – 15 March 2009
2009-03-15
1 June 2007
2007-06-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-06-01
Interrupted Visions: Oil Sketches 1820s-1840s
Collection based display
22 May 2015 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
22 May 2015 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
2015-05-22
The Salisbury Museum (Salisbury, UK)
http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
2015-05-22
Turner and Wessex
Loan-out
6 October 2018 – 3 February 2019
2019-02-03
6 October 2018 – 3 February 2019
2019-02-03
2018-10-06
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
2018-10-06
Louis-Philippe and Versailles
Loan-out
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
17 October 2021 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2021-10-17
Turner's Modern World
Loan-out
13 March 2023
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2023-03-13
Gallery 105
Collection based display
The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at the Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, 8 October 1844
support: 902 × 1206 mm
frame: 1280 × 1585 × 90 mm
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>This pair of unfinished paintings was long thought to depict Venice. We now think they show the arrival in Portsmouth of French king Louis-Philippe in October 1844 for his state visit to Queen Victoria. These paintings hum with energy. The crowds that met the King upon his arrival in Portsmouth can be made out on the left and right of both scenes. Turner probably witnessed the proceedings from a boat. Even if Turner had completed these paintings his uncompromising late style – putting colour and atmosphere before immediate legibility – would almost certainly have been ridiculed in the press.</p>
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<p><b>505. </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-the-arrival-of-louis-philippe-at-the-royal-clarence-yard-gosport-8-october-1844-n02068" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02068</span></a>] <b>Procession of Boats with Distant Smoke, Venice</b>
<i>c.</i> 1845</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (2068)</p>
<p>Canvas, 35 1/2 × 47 1/2 (90 × 120·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1906.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Hamburg, Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen 1949–50 (101); Toronto and Ottawa 1951 (11); Australian tour 1960 (14, repr. in colour); New York 1966 (31); Dresden (3) and Berlin (4) 1972.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> MacColl 1920, p. 36; Davies 1946, p. 185; Rothenstein and Butlin 1964, p. 64, pl. 119.</p>
<p>This was formerly called ‘The Burning of the Ships’, and was identified by MacColl as possibly ‘Some historical scene of naval warfare ... or a vague recollection of the incident in the Iliad, which was the subject of a picture by Claude, or again, of the burning of Æneas' ships by Turnus ... In the foreground to the left are galleys crowded with men.’ However, the subject is more likely to be a Venetian one; <i>c.f.</i> particularly the clusters of boats and gondolas in some of the exhibits of 1844 and 1845 (e.g. Nos. 411 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-venice-maria-della-salute-n00539" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00539</span></a>], 417 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-going-to-the-ball-san-martino-n00544" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00544</span></a>], 421 and 422). The picture seems to date from the mid 1840s and is in Turner's standard 3 ft by 4 ft size, which, however, he abandoned for his exhibited Venetian oils after 1836.</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
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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adults boat - non-specific cloud crowd England England, South East England, Southern figure groups Hampshire harbour history natural phenomena people places politics and society Portsmouth royalty: Louis-Phillipe, visit to Britain, Oct 1844 sea seascapes and coasts smoke society transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions weather