The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons I - William Turner

This painting is the first of a famouspre-impressionist diptych. It depicts the fire at the Palace of Westminster inOctober 1834, an event that William Turner witnessed at first hand. A fewmonths after the tragedy, the London artist undertook to depict the burningParliament of the United Kingdom, seen from the banks of the Thames.
The artwork in a nutshell
This painting is the first of a famouspre-impressionist diptych. It depicts the fire at the Palace of Westminster inOctober 1834, an event that William Turner witnessed at first hand. A fewmonths after the tragedy, the London artist undertook to depict the burningParliament of the United Kingdom, seen from the banks of the Thames.
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