Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth, 8 October 1844 c.1844-5
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This is another Venetian subject begun around the mid-1840s but abandoned, perhaps because Turner had begun to explore different formats, instead of the traditional standard sizes he had until then used for his exhibited Venetian paintings.
August 2004
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