Peace – Burial at Sea is an oil painting on canvas by the English Romantic artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), first exhibited in 1842. The painting serves as a memorial tribute to Turner's contemporary, the Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841), depicting Wilkie's burial at sea. It was intended as a companion piece to War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (also 1842) which alludes to the sordid demise of the former Emperor of France Napoleon Bonaparte (thus "War" and "Peace").[ 1] [ 2] The two works are characterized by their sharply contrasting colours and tones: War utilizes a strident yellow and red while Peace is painted a cool blend of white, blue and black. [ 3]
The painting was part of the Turner bequest gifted by the artist to the British nation in 1859, and is now in the permanent collection of Tate Britain.[ 4]
In popular culture
The post-hardcore British band Peace Burial at Sea take their name from the painting.[ 5]
In July of 2013, the National Gallery of Australia physically recreated the painting in real time with live action inclusive of a ship in Sydney Harbour in conjunction with the
exhibit at the museum Turner from the Tate : The Making of a Master .[ 6]
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Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795 –1800)
Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795 –1800)
Diana and Callisto (c. 1796 )
Fishermen at Sea (1796)
Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797 )
Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797 )
Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798 )
Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798)
Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798 )
Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798 )
View of a Town (c. 1798 )
Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
Self-Portrait (c. 1799 )
View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening (c. 1799 –1800)
Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799 –1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800 )
A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800 )
Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800 )
Calais Pier (1803)
View on Clapham Common (c. 1800 –1805)
The Shipwreck (1805)
Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
London from Greenwich Park (1809)
The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810)
High Street, Oxford (1810)
Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
Frosty Morning (1813)
Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815)
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818)
The Field of Waterloo (1818)
England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday (1819)
Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening (1826)
Forum Romanum (1826)
Mortlake Terrace (1826)
Port Ruysdael (1826)
Chichester Canal (1828)
East Cowes Castle (1828)
Regulus (1828)
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
The Golden Bough (1834)
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 (1835)
Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835 )
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838)
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840)
Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
The Blue Rigi (1842)
The Red Rigi (1842)
Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (1843)
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845 )
Whalers (c. 1845 )
The Beacon Light (unknown)
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