| Helvoetsluys | |
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| Artist | J. M. W. Turner |
| Year | 1832 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 91.4 cm× 122 cm(36.0 in× 48 in) |
| Location | Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo |
Helvoetsluys is an 1832 oil painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. A seascape, it features a view near the port of Hellevoetsluis in Holland with a ship of the line from the Dutch Navy. The full title is Helvoetsluys: The City of Utrecht , 64 , Going to Sea.
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The painting was submitted to the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1832 held at Somerset House in London. Hung beside John Constable's painting The Opening of Waterloo Bridge , on which he has been working for more than a decade. It led to a famous exchange between them on Varnishing day. [1]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Fuji Art Museum in Tokyo.it was briefly loaned to the Royal Academy of Arts so it could hang once again alongside Constable's Waterloo Bridge again. [2]
