#fightingtemeraire

Look what I found out at The National Gallery! Turner’s 'The Fighting Temeraire' will feature on a new £20 bank note, to be issued by the Bank of England for circulation in 2020. The bank note will also include Turner’s self-portrait of c.1799, his signature and a quote from his 1818 lecture at the Royal Academy: ‘Light is therefore colour’ The new design is the result of a landmark public vote, the first time that the public was invited to nominate candidates to feature on a new note. The bank ended-up with a list featuring some 29,000 nominees, 590 of which were artists. From these, a shortlist was drawn up: Turner, Charlie Chaplin, Barbara Hepworth, William Hogarth, and designer Josiah Wedgwood, and eventually Turner won. ‪#nationalgallery #JMWTurner #banknote #oilpainting #fightingtemeraire #artists #art #gallery #london #lightiscolour‬ https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ZFlN-nOZa/?igshid=18nvb2zjnid2f

#turner #fightingtemeraire here I am again, visiting it once again! (at National Gallery)

Fighting Temeraire just now! The sun is going down and everything is so pretty ✨ • • • #davidaustinroses #englishroses #fightingtemeraire #awesome_florals #captures_flowers #favv_flowers #flowerlove #ig_flowers #instaflower #myheartinshots #flowerlovers #mygarden #leahj2c

The HMS Temeraire was launched #onthisday in 1798. British artist J.M.W. Turner painted the ship in 1839, after it had been decommissioned and was towed from Sheerness to Rotherhithe to be broken up. The 98-gun ship 'Temeraire' played a distinguished role in Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, after which she was known as the 'Fighting Temeraire'. The ship remained in service until 1838. Here the ship is shown travelling east, away from the sunset, even though Rotherhithe is west of Sheerness, but Turner's main concern was to evoke a sense of loss, rather than to give an exact recording of the event. The spectacularly colourful setting of the sun draws a parallel with the passing of the old warship. By contrast the new steam-powered tug is smaller and more prosaic. Turner was in his sixties when he painted 'The Fighting Temeraire'. It shows his mastery of painting techniques to suggest sea and sky. Paint laid on thickly is used to render the sun's rays striking the clouds. By contrast, the ship's rigging is meticulously painted. Detail from Joseph Mallord William Turner, 'The Fighting Temeraire', 1839 © The National Gallery, London. #nationalgallery #turner #jmwturner #fightingtemeraire #painting #landscape #seascape #art #gallery #artgallery #artmuseum (at National Gallery)