The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851) · 1835 · oil on canvas
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The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 is a CC0 painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851), dated 1835. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834” (1835) treats light as the subject. In Turner’s later pictures, ships, storms, and sunrises dissolve, and he showed those canvases as finished works.
About the artist
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) was an English landscape painter. His late pictures dissolve ships, storms, and sunrises into light, and he exhibited them as finished works, not sketches.
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