Joseph Mallord William Turner; Calais pier with French and English shipping; 86.4 x 111.8 cm. (34 x 44 in.) close. Medium Oil on Canvas Size 86.4 x 111.8 cm. (34 x 44 in.) Sale ... Artist Quayola On ...

How did JMW Turner, ... His talent for drawing and painting was nurtured on the muddy banks of the Thames in Brentford and, later, ... ‘Calais Pier’ (1803), ...

In “Calais Pier, with French Poissards Preparing for Sea: An English Packet Arriving” (1803), painted after Turner’s first trip abroad, the Union Jack flutters from a storm-tossed British ...

Turner visited Venice in 1840 and by the time he left two weeks later he had made more than 200 topographical pencil drawings and more than 100 coloured sketches, many of which are in the show.