Landscape and the Sublime

Britain: Weather and Light

Turner, Constable, Barry and Pugin, 1812–c. 1870

In these decades British painters made sky, storm and changing daylight serious subjects for large exhibition pictures. Constable worked from close study of places he knew, while Turner pushed toward catastrophe, night and the machines of his own time.

• Constable's Suffolk, Essex, Hampstead and Salisbury, sketched outdoors and worked up in the studio
• Turner's Royal Academy pictures of war, the sea and the railway
• A new Parliament built in a medieval style

Works in this part

• Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
• Wivenhoe Park, Essex
• The Hay Wain
• Cloud Study
• Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
• Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames—Morning after a Stormy Night
• Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight
• The Fighting Temeraire
• Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)
• Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway
• Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)

Image: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-Art)