Joseph Mallord William Turner, Mer de Glace, in the Valley of Chamouni, Switzerland, 1803, Watercolour, graphite, scraping out and stopping out on wove paper laid down on board, 69.2 x 103.5 cm. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Photo Yale Center for British Art/Richard Caspole

LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts is celebrating the centenary of the birth of Paul Mellon (1907 –1999), one of the greatest collectors of British art, with an exhibition of major works from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art. The exhibition will present more than 150 works, including prints, drawings, paintings, rare books and manuscripts. Featured in the exhibition are many objects that have not been seen by the British public since they were purchased, as well as major works by artists such as Reynolds, Gainsborough, Stubbs, Constable and Turner. This will be an unparalleled opportunity to experience some of the finest works of British art.
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John Constable, Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames, Morning after a Stormy Night, 1829, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection