Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1845 - Whalers - fine art print

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Turner was seventy years old when Whalers debuted to mixed reviews at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1845. Its subject proved elusive, as the English novelist William Thackeray observed: "That is not a smear of purple you see yonder, but a beautiful whale, whose tail has just slapped a half-dozen whale-boats into perdition; and as for what you fancied to be a few zig-zag lines spattered on the canvas at hap-hazard, look! they turn out to be a ship with all her sails." Apparently Turner undertook the painting—which was returned to him—for the collector Elhanan Bicknell, who had made his fortune in the whale-oil business.

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This 19th century painting called "Whalers" was created by the male British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner in 1845. The more than 170 years old original had the size: 36 1/8 x 48 1/4 in (91,8 x 122,6 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the technique for the artwork. Furthermore, this artwork is part of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1896 (public domain). Furthermore, the work of art has the following creditline: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1896. On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Joseph Mallord William Turner was an artist from the United Kingdom, whose artistic style was mainly Romanticism. The painter was born in 1775 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom and died at the age of 76 in 1851 in Chelsea, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, neighborhood.

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