Art Lunch: Grand tourists to Turner. British artists in Europe

Show & Culture

In addition to paintings and drawings by the famous landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the exhibition features works by renowned contemporaries such as John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, William Pars, Richard Wilson, and Joseph Wright of Derby. For centuries, Italy, land of Antiquity and the Renaissance, attracted travelers and artists. However, under the influence of Romanticism, the 19th century saw new regions of Europe explored, including the Swiss Alps and the valleys of the Seine, Loire, and Rhine. Interest extended from Roman ruins to Gothic cathedrals and medieval castles. Turner and these other British artists illustrate the changing representation of landscape. From Turner's two visits to Luxembourg in 1824 and 1839, seven views of the city are exhibited.