“It’s the dawning of a new day and the sun is just breaking through a veil of sea mist. You can look at it without hurting your eyes – of course you can, it’s a painting, but in some of Turner’s works that searing dot really does seem to burn your retina. Here, the world is gentle, the sea so still it holds reflections of boats and light. But this is most of all a painting of people. They gather and go about their morning business in one of his most down to earth scenes, a joyous memory of the seaside as a working world.“
November 2007: J. M. W. Turner, 2009 April: Turner & Italy, 2011 June: J. M. W. Turner - 1, 2014 June: In Which We Find His Theory Of Color Implausible, 2014 September: The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free, 2015 May: Mr. Turner (2014), 2018 November: The Slave Ship (1840), 2018 December: Turner and Constable: The Inhabited Landscape, 2020 September: The Fighting Temeraire (1838)
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