The Fighting Temeraire Tugged To Her Last Berth To Be Broken Up 1838 by Joseph Mallord William Turner In 2005, The Fighting Temeraire was voted the greatest painting in a British art gallery. This wonderful painting by one of Britain’s greatest painters combines strength and power with fatigue and gracefulness. The blood red sunset shining down on the broken beams of this once magnificent ship is now tugged along the River Thames to its final resting place. Interestingly, the great ship is not the central focus point of the painting but is set to the left rising into the sunset majestically. It is the soot covered tug boat which is center stage

The Fighting Temeraire Tugged To Her Last Berth To Be Broken Up 1838 by Joseph Mallord William Turner

In 2005, The Fighting Temeraire was voted the greatest painting in a British art gallery.


This wonderful painting by one of Britain’s greatest painters combines strength and power with fatigue and gracefulness. The blood red sunset shining down on the broken beams of this once magnificent ship is now tugged along the River Thames to its final resting place. Interestingly, the great ship is not the central focus point of the painting but is set to the left rising into the sunset majestically. It is the soot covered tug boat which is center stage

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