London from Greenwich Park

London from Greenwich Park

Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1809
Type	Oil on canvas
Location	Tate Britain, London

London from Greenwich Park is an 1809 landscape painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner.^[1] It looks down from Greenwich Hill towards Greenwich Hospital and the Queen's House. In the distance beyond the River Thames is the City of London with St Paul's Cathedral towering over the other buildings. It emphasises the extent of the capital as an expanding metropolis.^[2] It replicates a similar view by the Dutch painter Hendrick Danckerts dating back to 1670.

As part of the Turner Bequest in 1856, it came into the hands of the British government. It is now in the Tate Britain collection.^[3]

References

^ Finley p.87-88
^ Robinson p.8-9
^ "'London from Greenwich Park', Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1809".

Bibliography

Finley, Gerald. Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History. McGill-Queen's Press, 1999.
Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
Robinson, Alan. Imagining London, 1770-1900. Springer, 2004.

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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 (1796) Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797) Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797) Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797) Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798) Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798) Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798) Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798) Shipping by a Breakwater (1798) Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798) View of a Town (c. 1798) Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799) 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) Calais Pier (1803) View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805) The Shipwreck (1805) London from Greenwich Park (1809) The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810) High Street, Oxford (1810) Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812) Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815) Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818) The Field of Waterloo (1818) England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday (1819) Rome, from the Vatican (1820) The Battle of Trafalgar (1822) Port Ruysdael (1826) Chichester Canal (1828) Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829) Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832) The Fountain of Indolence (1834) The Golden Bough (1834) Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 (1835) Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835) The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838) Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839) Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840) Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842) The Blue Rigi (1842) The Red Rigi (1842) Peace – Burial at Sea (1842) War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842) Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (1843) Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844) Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845) Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845) Whalers (c. 1845) The Beacon Light (unknown)
Prints	Liber Studiorum (1807–1819)
Museums	Sandycombe Lodge
Related	The Painter (2011 play) Mr. Turner (2014 film) Thomas Price Turner Turner Prize Turner Contemporary
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