IPCH and YCBA collaboration examines technique of J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed, 1818, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
March 14, 2016

Drs. Anikó Bezur and Erin Mysak, of IPCH, have collaborated with YCBA’s Mark Aronson, Chief Conservator, as well as Gillian Forrester, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, to examine the painting technique used by renowned British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner to execute the painting Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed. To read more about this project, click here.