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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
A Country Blacksmith genre painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner .[ 1] A Country Blacksmith Disputing upon the Price of Iron, and the Price Charged to the Butcher for Shoeing his Poney farrier 's shop. Turner produced the painting as a response to the breakthrough work of the younger Scottish artist David Wilkie 's genre work The Village Politicians the previous year.[ 2]
It was shown at the Royal Academy 's 1807 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House where it was considered to have upstaged Wilkie's neighbouring painting The Blind Fiddler art collector Sir John Leicester but bought it back in 1827. Today it is on the Tate Britain having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.[ 3]
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Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales 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 )Dutch Boats in a Gale Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage Calais Pier View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck Windsor Castle from the Thames Walton Bridges A Country Blacksmith Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour View of Richmond Hill and Bridge The Garreteer's Petition London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Apollo and Python Saltash with the Water Ferry Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Frosty Morning Dido and Aeneas Dido building Carthage Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Dort or Dordrecht The Field of Waterloo Richmond Hill Entrance of the Meuse Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae The Harbour of Dieppe Cologne Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael The Chain Pier, Brighton Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus View of Orvieto Vision of Medea The Banks of the Loire The Loretto Necklace Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus The Evening Star Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Pilate Washing his Hands Caligula's Palace and Bridge Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore St Michael's Mount, Cornwall The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight Line Fishing, Off Hastings Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )Juliet and her Nurse The Fighting Temeraire Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino The Slave Ship Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Venice from the Giudecca Schloss Rosenau Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Seascape: Folkestone c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )Queen Mab's Cave The Departure of the Fleet The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
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