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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Calais Pier landscape painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner , painted in 1803 and exhibited at the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition the same year. The painting's full title is Calais Pier, with French Poissards preparing for Sea: an English Packet arriving
The painting was inspired by a visit Turner made to Calais , France, the previous year when the Peace of Amiens led to a brief break in the French Revolutionary War against France . Having made the crossing during stormy weather, his ship was stuck outside the harbour for some time during which he made a number of sketches. Having transferred to the pilot boat he nearly drowned while getting ashore.[ 1] packet boat arriving in the harbour.[ 2]
Turner's contemporary John Constable was privately critical of both this work and Turner's The Opening of the Vintage of Macon after viewing them at the Royal Academy, as he felt the artist had become "more and more extravagant and less attentive to nature".[ 3] art critic John Ruskin later hailed it as the first painting to display "Turner's colossal power".[ 4]
The work is now in the collection of the National Gallery having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.
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Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening c. 1799 –1800)Welsh Mountain Landscape c. 1799 –1800)A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire c. 1800 )A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance c. 1800 )Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree c. 1800 )Dutch Boats in a Gale Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage Calais Pier View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck Walton Bridges Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour View of Richmond Hill and Bridge The Garreteer's Petition London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Apollo and Python Saltash with the Water Ferry Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Frosty Morning Dido building Carthage, or, Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Dort or Dordrecht: The Field of Waterloo England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore St Michael's Mount, Cornwall The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Line Fishing, Off Hastings Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )Juliet and her Nurse The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino Slave Ship Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Venice from the Giudecca Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Seascape: Folkestone c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )The Departure of the Fleet The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
