List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner

This is an incomplete list of the oil paintings of J. M. W. Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), a master noted for his skill in the portrayal of light, and in the painting of maritime scenes.

See M. W. Turner Catalogue Raisonné, 1982, Joll and Butlin for a complete catalogue of his works. The French language version of this page includes his watercolors.

Timeline

1787–1801 Student 1802–1818 Academician 1819–1835 Extensive wanderer 1836–1851 Modernism

Paintings by Turner This list includes paintings attributed to Turner. In cases where the date of painting's creation is not known, the year of exhibition has been listed.

1787–1801 Student ImageTitleYearLocationDimensions ()Comments Lambeth Palace1790Indianapolis Museum of Art26.7 × 38.1 A watercolour produced and exhibited while Turner was a student of the Royal Academy Schools. Self-Portrait 1791–1793 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis 52 × 42 Turner's earliest oil painting, given to his housekeeper Hannah Danby and later owned by John Ruskin. The Rising Squall, Hot Wells 1792 Private collection 59.8 × 74 Turner's first exhibited oil painting.Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (partly after Gainsborough)1795–1800Tate Britain, London70.5 × 90.2The painting is attributed to Turner. It is highly likely to be a Turner work, and part of the Turner Bequest also.Interior of a Romanesque Churchc.1795–1800Tate Britain, London61 × 50.2Fishermen at Sea1796Tate Britain, London91.4 × 122.2Diana and Callisto (after Wilson)1796Tate Britain, London56.5 × 91.4Interior of a Gothic Church1797Tate Britain, London27.9 × 40.6Moonlight, a Study at Millbank1797Tate Britain, London31.5 × 40.5Limekiln at Coalbrookdale1797Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut28.9 × 40.3Beech Trees at Norbury Parkc. 1797National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin44 × 43.1Turner was invited to Norbury Park in Surrey by the owner William Lock in 1797. The painting was bequeathed to the gallery in 1900 by Henry Vaughan.Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus1798Tate Britain, London76.5 × 98.4Caernarvon Castle1798Tate Britain, London15.2 × 23.2Shipping by a Breakwater1798Tate Britain, London30.2 × 19.4 View of a Town1798Tate Britain, London24.1 × 32.4Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower1798Tate Britain, London88.9 × 119.4Dunstanburgh Castle1798National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne92.2 × 123.2Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (after Wilson)1798Tate Britain, London72.4 × 96.5Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland1798Tate Britain, London122.9 × 89.9 Plompton Rocks 1798 Harewood House, Yorkshire Two paintings produced as a commission featuring the Yorkshire landmark Plumpton Rocks Plompton Rocks 1798 Harewood House, Yorkshire Kilgarren Castle, Pembrokeshire1798-1799Cragside, Rothbury89 × 19.7Self-Portrait1799Tate Britain, London74.3 × 58.4Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight1799Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut87 × 119.4View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle - Evening1799-1800Tate Britain, London58.1 × 72.7A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance1799-1801Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge27 × 19A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire1799-1801Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge27 × 19View on Clapham Common1800-1805Tate Britain, London32.1 × 44.5Dolbadarn Castle1799–1800The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth45.5 × 30Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree1800Tate Britain, London39.1 × 60.6Dolbadern Castle1800The Royal Academy, London119.4 × 90.2 Presented as diploma work following his election as a full member of the Royal AcademyThe Fifth Plague of Egypt1800Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis120 × 180Dutch Boats in a Gale1801National Gallery, London on long term loan from The Capricorn Foundation162.5 × 221

1802–1818 Academician ImageTitleYearLocationDimensions ()CommentsJason1802Tate Britain, London90.2 × 119.7 Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland1802Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge64.1 × 98.8Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather1802Southampton City Art Gallery91.5 × 122The Tenth Plague of Egypt1802Tate Britain, London143.5 × 236.2Grenoble Seen from the River Drac with Mont Blanc in the Distance1802Tate Britain, London36.2 × 64.1Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage1802Petworth House, Petworth112 × 18 Salisbury Cathedral from the Cloisters 1802 Victoria and Albert Museum, London 89.8 × 72.5 WatercolourMountain Scene with Castle, Probably Martigny1802-1803Tate Britain, London43.8 × 54Tummel Bridge, Perthshire1802-1803Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut28.9 × 46.7Chateaux de St Michael, Bonneville, Savoy1802-1803Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut91.4 × 121.9Bonneville, Savoy1803Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas92.71 × 122.56 St Huges Denouncing Vengeance on the Shepherd of Cormayer in the Valley of d'Aoust 1803 Sir John Soane's Museum, London67.3 × 100.9 Watercolour produced following Turner's visit to Continental Europe during the Peace of AmiensA Coast Scene with Fishermen Hauling a Boat Ashore1803-1804Kenwood House, London91.8 × 122.5The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon1803Museums Sheffield182.5 × 274.4 Holy Family1803Tate Britain, London102.2 × 141.6 cmCalais Pier, with French Poissards preparing for Sea: an English Packet arriving1803National Gallery, London172 × 240 Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbour1803Frick Collection, New York City73.7 × 98.4The Pass of Saint Gotthard, Switzerland1803–1804Birmingham Museums Trust80.6 × 64.2 Narcissus and Echo1804Petworth House, Petworth86.5 × 117 Old Margate Pier 1804 Private collection The Devil's Bridge, St Gotthard Pass 1804 Private collection Seascape with a Squall Coming Up1804Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo 45.7 × 60.9Boats Carrying Out Anchors to the Dutch Men of Warc.1804National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.101.6 × 130.81The Shipwreck1805Tate Britain, London170.5 × 241.6 Venus and Adonis c.1805 Private collection 149 × 119.4Cattle in a Stream under a Bridge1805-1807Tate Britain, London31.4 × 39.4 Guildford from the Banks of the Wey1805Tate Britain, London25.4 × 19.7 Cows in a Landscape with a Footbridge1805-1807Tate Britain, London47.9 × 71.1The Thames at Weybridge1805-1806Petworth House, Petworth90.5 × 121.7Windsor Castle from the Thames1805Petworth House, Petworth91 × 122Venus and the Dead Adonis1805?Tate Britain, London31.8 × 45.1The Deluge1805Tate Britain, London142.9 × 235.6Windsor Castle from the Meadows1805Tate Britain, London22.2 × 55.6Sunset on the River1805Tate Britain, London15.6 × 18.7The Destruction of Sodom1805Tate Britain, London146 × 237.5Walton Reach1805Tate Britain, London36.8 × 73.7Windsor from Lower Hope1805Tate Britain, London32.1 × 73.7Godalming from the South1805Tate Britain, London20.3 × 34.9 A Thames Backwater with Windsor Castle in the Distance1805Tate Britain, London86.7 × 121Willows beside a Stream1805Tate Britain, London86 × 116.2Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausenc.1805-06Museum of Fine Arts, Boston148.6 × 239.7The ‘Victory’ Returning from Trafalgar, in Three Positions1806Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut67 × 100.3The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides1806Tate Britain, London155.3 × 218.4Abingdon1806?Tate Britain, London01.6 × 130.2 Walton Bridgesc.1806National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne91.2 × 122.Sun Rising through Vapourpre 1807National Gallery, London134 × 179.5Barge on the River, Sunset1806-1807Tate Britain, London85.1 × 116.2 Margate1806-1807Tate Britain, London85.7 × 116.2 Men with Horses Crossing a River1806-1807Tate Britain, London87.9 × 118.4 The Thames Glimpsed between Trees, possibly at Kew Bridge1806-1807Tate Britain, London91.1 × 121.6Weir and Cattle1806-1807Tate Britain, London88.3 × 120Washing Sheep1806-1807Tate Britain, London84.5 × 116.5Sketch for 'Harvest Dinner, Kingston Bank''' |1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |61 × 91.4

|Shipping at the Mouth of the Thames|1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |85.7 × 116.8

|Coast Scene with Fishermen and Boats|1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |85.7 × 116.2

|Caversham Bridge with Cattle in the Water|1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |85.4 × 115.8

|Goring Mill and Church|1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |85.7 × 116.2

|River Scene with Weir in Middle Distance|1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |85.4 × 115.6

|Hampton Court from the Thames|1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |85.7 × 120

|Trees beside the River, with Bridge in the Middle Distance|1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |87.9 × 120.6

|House beside the River, with Trees and Sheep|1806-1807 |Tate Britain, London |90.5 × 116.5

|Newark Abbey|1806-1807 |Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut |91.4 × 123.2

|Gipsy Camp|1807 |Tate Britain, London |121.9 × 91.4

|Cassiobury Park: Reaping|1807 |Tate Britain, London |90.2 × 121.9

|Newark Abbey|1807 |Tate Britain, London |29.5 × 35.2

|Newark Abbey on the River Wey| 1807 | Private collection | 27.9 × 45.7

|An Artists' Colourman's Workshop|1807 |Tate Britain, London |62.2 × 91.4

|St Catherine's Hill, Guildford|1807 |Tate Britain, London |36.5 × 73.7

|Linlithgow Palace|1807 |Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |92 × 122.5

|The Thames near Windsor|1807 |Petworth House, Petworth |18.7 × 26

|The Junction of the Thames and the Medway|1807 |National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |108.8 × 143.7

|A Narrow Valley|1807 |Tate Britain, London |20.6 × 16.5

|Newark Abbey on the Wey|1807 |Tate Britain, London |36.8 × 73.7

|Windsor Castle from Salt Hill|1807 |Tate Britain, London |27.6 × 73.7

|On the Thames (?) |1807 |Tate Britain, London |29.8 × 34.9

|Windsor Castle from the River|1807 |Tate Britain, London |20 × 36.8

|The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory|1806-1808 |Tate Britain, London |170.8 × 238.8

|Spithead: Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour|1807-1809 |Tate Britain, London |171.4 × 233.7

|Eton, from the River|1807? |Tate Britain, London |35.6 × 66

|Tree Tops and Sky, Guildford Castle(?), Evening|1807? |Tate Britain, London |27.6 × 73.7

|Cliveden on Thames|1807? |Tate Britain, London |28.4 × 58.4

|A Country Blacksmith|1807? |Tate Britain, London |54.9 × 77.8

|The Thames near Windsor|1807? |Tate Britain, London |89 × 119.5

|The Raft|1807 |Tate Britain, London |41 × 59

|The Unpaid Bill| 1808 | Private collection | 59.4 × 80

|The Thames at Eton|1808 |Petworth House, Petworth |60.5 × 90.5

|Margate|1808 |Petworth House, Petworth |90 × 120.5

|The Forest of Bere|1808 |Petworth House, Petworth |89 × 119.5

| Purfleet and the Essex Shore as Seen from Long Reach| 1808 | Private collection | 89.5 × 120

|Tabley, Cheshire, the Seat of Sir J. F. Leicester, Bt: Windy Day|1808 |Tabley House, Knutsford |91.5 × W 120.6

| Pope's Villa at Twickenham| 1808 | Private collection | 92 × 122.5

|View of Richmond Hill and Bridge|1808 |Tate Britain, London |91.4 × 121.9

|A Subject from the Runic Superstitions ...|1808 |Tate Britain, London |92.1 × 121.9

|Union of the Thames and Isis ('Dorchester Mead, Oxfordshire')|1808 |Tate Britain, London |90.8 × 121.3

|Sheerness as Seen from the Nore|1808 |Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |140.5 × 149.5

|The Confluence of the Thames and the Medway|1808 |Petworth House, Petworth |91 × 12

|Near the Thames' Lock, Windsor|1809 |Petworth House, Petworth |89 × 118 c

|Harvest Home|1809 |Tate Britain, London |90.5 × 120.3 c

|The Sun Setting through Vapour|1809 |Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham |69.2 × 101.6 c

|Shoeburyness Fishermen Hailing a Whitstable Hoy| 1809 | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa | 91.5 × 122

|The Trout Stream|1809 |Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati

|Tabley, Cheshire, the Seat of Sir J. F. Leicester, Bart.: Calm Morning|1809 |Petworth House, Petworth |91 × 121.5

|Ploughing Up Turnips, near Slough ('Windsor')|1809 |Tate Britain, London |101.9 × 130.2

|Sketch of a Bank, with Gipsies|1809 |Tate Britain, London |61.3 × 83.8

|London from Greenwich Park|1809 |Tate Britain, London |90.2 × 120 c

|Thomson's Aeolian Harp|1809 |Manchester Art Gallery |166.7 × 306