# J.M.W. Turner's most famous paintings

Storms, steam trains and burning parliaments: the Turner canvases that every list includes, and where to see them.

- 69 votes · 16 items
- Jun 6, 2022 · A. MacKenzie
- https://even.best/en/l/3031/j-m-w-turner-s-most-famous-paintings

## Top 16

1. **The Fighting Temeraire** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — 1839. An old warship towed to be broken up; National Gallery, London.
2. **Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1844. A train bursting out of the haze; National Gallery.
3. **The Slave Ship** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1840. A typhoon and a crime at sea; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
4. **Dido Building Carthage** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1815. He called it his "chef d'oeuvre"; National Gallery.
5. **The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1834–1835. He watched Parliament burn and painted it twice.
6. **Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1812. A vortex of snow over tiny soldiers; Tate Britain.
7. **Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1842. Turner claimed he was tied to a mast to see the storm.
8. **Norham Castle, Sunrise** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — c. 1845. Almost pure light and colour; Tate Britain.
9. **The Shipwreck** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1805. A dramatic early sea disaster; Tate.
10. **Rome, from Mount Aventine** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1835. Sold for £30.3m in 2014, a Turner auction record.
11. **Peace – Burial at Sea** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1842. A tribute to the painter David Wilkie; Tate.
12. **Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1829. A golden mythological seascape; National Gallery.
13. **The Blue Rigi, Sunrise** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1842. A Swiss mountain watercolour bought for the nation in 2007.
14. **Fishermen at Sea** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1796. His first oil painting shown at the Royal Academy; Tate.
15. **Calais Pier** (0 · ▲3 ▼3) — 1803. Boats fighting the waves at the French port; National Gallery.
16. **Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1843. The morning after the Deluge, inspired by Goethe; Tate.

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