Turner Bequest

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The Turner Bequest is the collection of paintings, drawings, and sketches by J. M. W. Turner that he left to the British nation, now housed primarily in Tate Britain.

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Turner Bequest canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art collection
bequest
museum collection
administeredBy Tate
associatedWith British Romanticism
linked to: Romanticism

London
linked to: London, England
beneficiary British nation
collectionOf drawings
paintings
sketchbooks
sketches
watercolours
country United Kingdom
creator J. M. W. Turner
donatedBy J. M. W. Turner
exhibitedAt Tate Britain Clore Gallery
linked to: Tate Britain
genre Romantic art
hasPart A Disaster at Sea
A First Rate Taking in Stores
Calais Pier
Chichester Canal
Dido Building Carthage
Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
Norham Castle, Sunrise
Peace – Burial at Sea
Petworth House from the Lake
linked to: Petworth House

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway
Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steam-Boats off Shoal
Shade and Darkness – The Evening of the Deluge
Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth
Staffa, Fingal’s Cave
The Angel Standing in the Sun
The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805
linked to: Battle of Trafalgar

The Blue Rigi
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire
The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore
The Field of Waterloo
linked to: Battle of Waterloo

The Fighting Temeraire
The Golden Bough
The Lake, Petworth: Sunset, Fighting Bucks
The Opening of the Walhalla
The Parting of Hero and Leander
The Scarlet Sunset
The Shipwreck
The Slave Ship
The Sun Rising through Vapour
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice: The Grand Canal
inception 1856
legalForm testamentary bequest
location Tate Britain
namedAfter J. M. W. Turner
partOf Tate collection
subjectOf Turner’s will

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Norham Castle, Sunrise partOf Turner Bequest
Tate Britain holds Turner Bequest