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Join us for January’s Winter Lecture as we explore the work of Turner and Constable with art historian and curator Anne Lyles.
The two great early nineteenth-century British landscape painters Turner and Constable have long been compared and contrasted. These sorts of comparisons between famous artist contemporaries – one thinks also of Gainsborough and Reynolds or Picasso and Matisse – can be illuminating. However they can also be misleading, which is arguably the case for Turner and Constable who are too often seen as rivals rather than as artistic colleagues both striving for the promotion of a new type of British landscape art.
Coinciding with the exhibition at Tate Britain which will directly compare the work of the two artists, this lecture will seek to discuss their differing characters and art at the same time as investigating their shared goals.
Speaker
Anne Lyles is an art historian and independent curator specialising in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British landscape painting.
She worked at Tate Britain for twenty-five years, and has co-curated, and contributed to the catalogues of, many exhibitions on the art of J.M.W.Turner, John Constable and British watercolours. These include The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880 (Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington 1993); the Constable exhibition in Paris in 2002 selected by Lucian Freud; Constable: the Great Landscapes (Tate Britain, London, National Gallery of Art Washington and Huntington Art Gallery, San Marino, 2006); and Late Constable ( Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2021)
How to take part
Thanks to the generous sponsorship from the Friends of Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives , this season’s Winter Lectures will be held in person at M Shed.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the advertised start time to take your seat. Parking in the area can be difficult so you may want to allow extra time to find a space if you are driving to the venue.
