The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up in 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist JMW

Turner painting in 1839. Turner is an English landscape painter, he make a very good treatment of natural light effects in land or marine subjects, his work helped in the development of impressionism, He was born in 1775 and died in 1851. The painting has been given by the artist to the National gallery in London in 1851 The Temeraire was a ship of Admiral Nelson's glorious fleet it was one of the last secondrate ships of the line from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It had avenged Nelsons death by blasting Napoleons vessel. 33 years after this mission of destruction, the ship was damaged a lot thats why it was taken to the naval base at Sheerness on the Thames to be removed. The fighting Temeraire is an excellent example of the use of linear perspective beginning with the horizon line and the vanishing point (the setting sun). The orthogonals create the illusion of things getting smaller when they are farther. The blurring of the horizon makes the painting less real but Open form creates the sense of movement of the ships and makes it easy to imagine the scene continuing beyond our view. When you look at the whole picture, there is a sense of sadness as the grand old ship is being led on her last voyage; this is like a tribute to the temeraire. A London reviewer wrote that the interest of this piece is not only the painting but what It makes you see or think more than the object in front of us. This painting is impacted by the events that occurred at the time it was created. The artist's technique and the political and social events of the time set the theme of the piece. In 2005, The Fighting Temeraire was voted the greatest painting in a British art gallery