Lambeth Palace (painting)
Painting by J. M. W. Turner
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A View of the Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth is a 1790 watercolour by J. M. W. Turner, one of England's greatest and most influential painters. Turner presented this watercolour to the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1790 when he was 15 years old and is his first work exhibited at that annual event. It features Lambeth Palace, the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, with the Swan Inn on the right. The painting shows a precocious talent to control light and shade.[1]
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| Artist | J. M. W. Turner |
| Year | 1790 |
| Type | Watercolour |
| Dimensions | 26.7 cm × 38.1 cm (10.5 in × 15 in) |
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The work required working out difficult perspective projections because the buildings aligned at different angles, a challenging task even for an experienced draughtsman. Turner seems to be trying to impress with his precocious drawing abilities.[3]
The work was influenced by the style of Thomas Malton (1748–1804), a draughstman of architectural views who taught Turner. Decades later he would say that Malton had been his "real master."[2]
Today the painting is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana, having been acquired in 1972.[4]
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