Our first meeting of the 2024/5 season will be held in Kingswear Village Hall at 7:30 pm on Monday 9th September. Details of the presentation are given below. The admission fee is £% and this will be collected at the door. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided free of charge after the presentation.
Talk – Devon Coastal Waters… into Art 1750-1850
Addendum
Artists featured in the talk
General Marine/Maritime Art – Bicci di Lorenzo, Joachim Patenir, Pieter Bruegel the
Elder, Phillip Galle, Rembrandt, Willem van de Velde the Younger, John Cleveley the
Elder, Samuel Scott, Francis Holman, Thomas Luny, Dominic Serres, Nicholas Pocock,
Philippe de Loutherbourg, Jules Girardet, Claude-Joseph Vernet, Thomas Butterworth,
Claude-Joseph Vernet, George Morland, Samuel Prout, Charles Brooking, Caspar David
Friedrich, Gustave Courbet, William Adolphus Knell, Isaac Cruikshank, Théodore
Géricault
Devon and its Environs – William Adolphus Knell, Thomas Luny, William Tomkins,
Francis Danby, William Williams, Edmund Ward Gill, Thomas Girtin, J M W Turner, John
Clayton Adams, William Daniell, Sebastian Pether
Contemporary Artists – Marcus Bowcott, Peter Archer, Terry Setch, Michael Porter,
Mandy Barker
Further Research and Reading
A good research starting point is to Google, for example, Thomas Girtin and Art UK and
it will take one to Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) – Art UK, an online catalogue of works by
Girtin held in British art galleries and museums.
Selected Bibliography
Thomas Girtin
Online
Greg Smith, Thomas Girtin (1775–1802): A Short Life Story-, Thomas Girtin (1775–
1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist, (London: Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022)
https://www.thomasgirtin.com/collection/texts/girtin-short-life-story
J M W Turner
Riding, C and Johns, R, Turner and the Sea, National Maritime Museum, London 2013
Shanes, E Turner, The Great Watercolours, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2001
Shanes, E, Turner’s Picturesque Views in England and Wales, 18125-1838, Chatto and
Windus, London, 1979
Smiles, S, J M W Turner, British Artists, Tate Publishing, London, 2013
Smiles, S. The Turner Book, Tate Publishing, London, 2006
Online
J M W Turner https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/jmw-turner
Dr Chris Davies September 2024
J M W Turner, Dartmouth, on the River Dart, 1822
J M W Turner, Dartmouth Castle, on the River Dart 1822
J M W Turner The Fighting Temeraire
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-fighting-temeraire
Specific Paintings – Holdings and Sources
Thomas Girtin, Kingswear Seen from Dartmouth,
Devon, 1797, watercolour on paper
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tm
s:5978
J M W Turner, A Ship against the
Mewstone, at the Entrance to Plymouth
Sound, 1814, watercolour on paper
J M W Turner, The Mewstone, 1823-26,
watercolour on paper
Kingswear Historians 