Every Day a Painting for October 22, 2026

Mortlake Terrace (1827)

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Oil on Canvas. British, Romantic.

British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries

This painting, one of two views of Mortlake Terrace painted by Turner, is a view from the house, looking directly west into the luminous glow of the setting sun. Turner established the quiet mood of t…

View at National Gallery of Art