马盖特码头的日落

Throughout his life Turner peppered

his sketchbooks with notes of striking sunrises and sunsets, generally in pencil rather than watercolour . Despite their apparent immediacy, many of his watercolours were actually painted

in the studio. Turner is supposed to

have preferred sunrises as they allowed him more time to observe a greater range of effects. However, the sunsets in several of his major paintings have encouraged us to think chiefly of 'Turner Sunsets'.