The two great early nineteenth-century British landscape painters Turner and Constable have long been compared and contrasted. These sorts of comparisons between famous artist contemporaries – one thinks also of Gainsborough and Reynolds or Picasso and Matisse – can be illuminating. However they can also be misleading, which is arguably the case for Turner and Constable who are too often seen as rivals rather than as artistic colleagues both striving for the promotion of a new type of British landscape art.
The speaker, Anne Lyles, is an art historian and independent curator specialising in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British landscape painting. She worked at Tate Britain for twenty-five years and has co-curated, and contributed to the catalogues of, many exhibitions on the art of J M W Turner, John Constable and British watercolours.
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The Museum Winter Lecture series is sponsored by The Friends