Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) San Giorgio Maggiore, Early Morning 1819 Watercolor, 22.3 x 28.7 cm Tate Britain, London Turner visited Venice for the first time in 1819. He stayed only a few days, but the city inspired him to make a…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway 1844 Oil on canvas, 91 x 121.8 cm National Gallery, London A steam engine rushes towards us as it speeds along a bridge through the rain. The bridge…
Established: 1824 Location: Trafalgar Square, London WC2 Website: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z The National Gallery in…
Established: 1897 as National Gallery of British Art; became Tate Britain in 2000 Location: Millbank, London SW1P 4RG Website: https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…
(1775–1851) The artist’s works: The Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli c.1794–1797 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Self-Portrait c.1799 Tate Britain, London Copy of Poussin’s Landscape 1799 Tate Britain, London Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian 1802 Tate Britain, London Mars and Venus, after Guercino…
(1819–1901) Queen of the United Kingdom (1837–1901) Empress of India (1876–1901) Queen Victoria in Art: Abercromby, Julia (1840-1915) Queen Victoria 1883 National Portrait Gallery, London
Rulers: • British Monarchs Countries: • England • Northern Ireland • Scotland • Wales Crown Dependencies: • Bahamas • British West Indies • Dominica • Guernsey • Isle of Man • Jersey • Tristan da Cunha
(1812–1870) Charles John Huffam Dickens Works: • A Child’s Dream of a Star (1850) • A Child’s History of England (1853) • A Christmas Carol (1843) • A Christmas Carol. The original manuscript (English) ◊ Cantique de Noël (French) • A…
