‘The Field of Waterloo‘, Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1818 on display at Tate Britain. ‘The Field of Waterloo‘, Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1818 on display at Tate Britain. ... The Battle of Fort Rock, Val d’Aouste, Piedmont, 1796 Joseph Mallord William Turner. exhibited 1815. View by appointment.

The Field of Waterloo is an 1818 history painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner.It portrays the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo which took place on 18 June 1815. Rather than the triumphal depictions commonplace in portrayals of the battle, it functions more as an elegy to Waterloo's unknown victims.

The English painter J.M.W. Turner took advantage of the new freedom of movement, and in August 1817 he began a tour of Belgium and Germany. On Saturday the 16th, he visited the field of Waterloo where he made several sketches that resulted in this small watercolour and a large oil painting, now in Tate Britain.

May 14, 2016 · The Field of Waterloo by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). Exhibited 1818. Oil on canvas, 1473 x 2388 mm. Courtesy of Tate Britain (Accession no. NO0500. ... (2016) The Battle of Waterloo (1815) saw Britain and Prussia defeat France, putting an end to the Napoleonic wars and more than a decade of conflict. Turner visited the ...

The defeat of France at the battle of Waterloo on 16 June 1815 ended the Napoleonic Wars after more than a decade of conflict. Turner visited the battlefield in 1817 and filled a sketchbook with drawings. This painting, made the following year, neither celebrates the …

Hide caption. The defeat of Napoleon by Allied armies at Waterloo on June 18, 1815, ended more than two decades of conflict. Turner, who visited the battle site in 1817, imagines its bloody aftermath in this image, inspired by a passage on Waterloo from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18) that concludes, "Friend, foe, in one red burial blent!"

In the second edition of his travel guide, Charles Campbell quotes this verse in regards to the battle; an indispensable step on every tour of the continent. In 1817, when J.M.W Turner submitted his name for the competition for the best painting of the battle, he had the winning work.

Jan Piggott tentatively identified this loose colour study as a depiction of the field of Waterloo. The battlefield had formed the subject for Turner’s earlier work illustrating The Works of Lord Byron (1833) and for Walter Scott’s ‘Life of Napoleon’ within Scott’s Prose Works (1834–6; vol. XVI), for which there is a preparatory sheet in the Turner Bequest, also tentatively ...

The Field of Waterloo, 1818, is a painting by J. M. W. Turner. It is housed in the National Gallery. The painting measures 1.473 meters in width and 2.388 meters in height. The artwork depicts a nocturnal battlefield scene, possibly after the Battle of Waterloo.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars.The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.One of these was a British-led force with units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover ...