Tate Britain to Stage Major Turner and Constable Exhibition for Artists' 250th Anniversaries
Tate Britain will present the first major exhibition to explore the intertwined lives and legacies of JMW Turner and John Constable. The show features over 170 paintings and works on paper, including Turner’s The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons from the Cleveland Museum of Art and Constable’s The White Horse from The Frick Collection. It runs from November 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026 at Tate Britain in London and traces the artists’ parallel careers amid critical rivalry.
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The exhibition underscores how Turner and Constable’s contrasting approaches elevated landscape painting to grand scale and prime institutional importance. Loans such as Ancient Italy – Ovid Banished from Rome and Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow will be shown alongside archival materials including Constable’s painting box. A closing film with Frank Bowling, Bridget Riley, George Shaw and Emma Stibbon positions their legacy as a continuing reference point for contemporary British artists.
- Artists: JMW Turner, John Constable
- People: Amy Concannon, Frank Bowling, Bridget Riley, George Shaw, Emma Stibbon
- Museums: Tate Britain, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Frick Collection
- Locations: London
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