In which museum is J.M.W. Turner's 'The Fighting Temeraire' housed?

J.M.W. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire is housed in the National Gallery in London.

Turner painted the oil-on-canvas work in 1838 and exhibited it at the Royal Academy in 1839. It shows HMS Temeraire, a celebrated veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed along the Thames toward a ship-breaker’s yard. The ship’s elegant, pale form contrasts with the dark steam tug, turning a specific maritime event into a meditation on technological change and the passing of an age.

Turner gave the painting its full title, The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838. He reportedly regarded it as one of his favourite works and refused to sell it. After his death, it entered the national collection through the Turner Bequest and remained at the National Gallery even though much of Turner’s estate is held by Tate Britain.

The main confusion is between the National Gallery and Tate Britain: both display major Turner works, but this particular painting is at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. It was voted Britain’s favourite painting in a 2005 BBC Radio 4 poll.