The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839.

The Coronation of Queen Victoria is an 1839 painting by the British artist George Hayter. [1] It depicts in oils the Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey on 28 June 1838. Victoria was eighteen when she succeeded her uncle William IV to the throne on 20 June 1837 and went on to reign until 1901 .

Turner’s painting shows the final journey of the Temeraire, as the ship is towed from Sheerness in Kent along the river Thames to Rotherhithe in south-east London, where it was to be scrapped....

Sir George Hayter was offered the commission less than a week before the event, on 22 June 1838, for a fee of 2,000 guineas. He witnessed the ceremony in Westminster Abbey from the Lord Great Chamberlain's box, which was above the box occupied by the royal ladies.

Events from the year 1838 in art. April 8 – The British National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, London.

The daguerreotype reproduces The Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, 28 June 1838, an oil painting by George Hayter (1792-1871). Hayter dated the painting 1839; it was completed in 1840.

It depicts one of the last second-rate ships of the line which played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire, being towed by a paddle-wheel steam tug towards its final berth in Rotherhithe south …

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Prior's engraving reproduces Turner's famous painting, now in the National Gallery in London, which the artist exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839: "The fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 ('The flag which braved …

This is a sketch for Sir George Hayters painting of the Coronation (RCIN 405409), indicating the main layout of the final composition.