Title: Turner and Constable: Rivals or Brothers in Art?
Speaker: Nicole Cochrane

To coincide with Tate Britain’s blockbuster exhibition Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals, this talk will explore the intertwined lives of two of Britain’s most beloved artists. It will look to some of the star works throughout each artists career, looking in particular at the moments of rivalry, tension, and camaraderie between these titans of British landscape painting to explore how both have left their mark of the artistic tradition, continuing to be beloved and relevant to this day.

Nicole Cochrane is an art historian and curator, specialising in the history of art, collecting and museums from the eighteenth century to the present day. She completed her AHRC-funded PhD on the history of antiquities collections in Britain in 2019 and has worked across academia and the heritage sector including the University of Hull, The Royal College of Music and Watts Gallery: Artists Village. Her co-edited collection Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives was published with Bloomsbury in 2025. She is currently Assistant Curator in Historic British Art (1790-1850) at Tate Britain where she was assistant curator on the exhibition Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals.