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Saltash With The Water Ferry, Cornwall
''Saltash with the Water Ferry'' is an 1811 landscape painting by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. It depicts the town of Saltash on the River Tamar, directly across from the major port of Plymouth in Devon A ferry ran between the two settlements and is depicted in the painting. It shows an inn and several smaller craft. The presence of a Red coat (military uniform), redcoat sentry and England expects that every man will do his duty, a quote from Horatio Nelson are reminders of the ongoing Napoleonic Wars. Turner painted it during an 1811 visit to the West Country. He also produced a view of the nearby Hamoaze. Turner exhibited the painting in his own gallery in London rather than at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. In 1846 it was displayed at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. The work is today in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, having been acquired in 1889 through the Marquand Collection of Henry Gurdon Marquand.https: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Painting
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on copper, copper for several centuries. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser color, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". The oldest known oil paintings were created by Buddhism, Buddhist artists in Afghanistan, and date back to the 7th century AD. Oil paint was later developed by Europeans for painting statues and woodwork from at least the 12th century, but its common use for painted images began with Early Netherlandish painting in Northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance, oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced the use of egg tempera paints for panel paintings in most of Europe, though not for Orthodox icons or wall paintings, where tempera a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
