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Exhibitions

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy: MDCCCXLIV. The Seventy-Sixth (1844)

• Royal Academy of Arts (London), 1844

The Exhibition of the Liverpool Academy: The 26th (1850)

• Liverpool Academy (Liverpool), 1850

Twenty-Sixth Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture (1852)

• Academy Galleries (Edinburgh), 1852

Art Treasures of the United Kingdom Collected at Manchester in 1857 (May 5 to October 17, 1857) (in Section 2, "Paintings by Modern Masters")

• Art Treasures Palace (Manchester), May 5 to October 17, 1857

Exhibition of British Art, c. 1000 - 1860 (January 6 to March 10, 1934)

• Royal Academy of Arts (London), January 6 to March 10, 1934

The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868: Winter Exhibition, 1951-52 (December 8, 1951 to March 9, 1952)

• Royal Academy of Arts (London), 1951 to 1952

Englische Malerei der Grossen Zeit: Von Hogarth bis Turner / La Pittura Inglese da Hogarth a Turner (1730-1850) / Malarstwo Angielskie od Hogartha do Turnera (October 8, 1966 to March 19, 1967)

• Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud (Cologne), October 8 to November 6, 1966
• Museo del Palazzo di Venezia (Rome), November 21 to December 20, 1966
• Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (Warsaw), February 18 to March 19, 1967

150th Anniversary Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolours by J. M. W. Turner, R.A. (November 1 to December 2, 1967)

• Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. (London), November 1 to December 2, 1967

Schok der Herkenning: Het Engelse landschap der Romantiek en zijn Hollandse Inspiratie / "Shock of Recognition": The Landscape of English Romanticism and the Dutch Seventeenth-Century School (November 24, 1970 to February 28, 1971)

• Mauritshuis (The Hague), November 24, 1970 to January 10, 1971
• Tate Gallery (London), January 23 to February 28, 1971

J. M. W. Turner: Der Maler des Lichts (September 15 to November 6, 1972)

• Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin), September 15 to November 6, 1972

Turner: A Special Loan Exhibition of 20 Rarely Seen Paintings (October 27 to December 4, 1977)

• Tate Gallery (London), October 27 to December 4, 1977

Thomas Holloway: The Benevolent Millionaire (November 3 to December 11, 1981)

• Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. (London), November 3 to December 11, 1981

J. M. W. Turner (October 14, 1983 to January 16, 1984)

• Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (Paris), October 14, 1983 to January 16, 1984

Turner (March 16 to September 10, 1996)

• National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), March 16 to June 10, 1996
• National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), June 27 to September 10, 1996

Turner: The Late Seascapes (June 14, 2003 to May 25, 2004)

• The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown), June 14 to September 7, 2003
• Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester), October 31, 2003 to January 25, 2004
• Burrell Collection (Glasgow), February 19 to May 25, 2004

J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free (September 10, 2014 to January 31, 2016)

• The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles), February 24 to May 24, 2015

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