Tate Britain holds a self-portrait of J.M.W. Turner which it dates to c.1798 or c.1799, when the artist was aged about 23 or 24 years old.[1]
The oil painting on canvas portrait measures 74.3 cm × 58.4 cm (29.3 in × 23.0 in). It presents a full face-on half-length view of the fresh-faced young artist, looking directly out at the viewer. His brightly lit features stand out against a featureless brown background. The Romanticised and idealised view of Turner shows him as a prosperous Georgian gentleman, befitting his success and status, with the collar of his dark coat turned up, two waistcoats, silver over blue, a white shirt and a white neckcloth. Notably, the composition has reduced the impact of Turner's prominent aquiline nose.
The painting may have been made in anticipation of or to mark Turner's election as an Associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts (ARA) in November 1799. It was donated to the British nation as part of the Turner Bequest on his death in 1851. It was held by the National Gallery until 1910, when it was transferred to the Tate Gallery.
This portrait was the basis for the depiction of Turner on the reverse of the Series G Bank of England £20 note issued from 2020, in front of a version of his 1838 painting The Fighting Temeraire.
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- 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)
- View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
- The Shipwreck (1805)
- 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 Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
- Port Ruysdael (1826)
- Chichester Canal (1828)
- Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
- The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
- The Golden Bough (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)
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