Born in London in 1775 to a lower-middle-class family, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a child prodigy. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts at age 14—interestingly, he intended to study ...
BOSTON – J.M.W. Turner painted his tumultuous times in incandescent colors, depicting sea battles and the human cost of war, slavery and industrialism with a visionary style that shaped the course of ...
On Jan. 14, the Kimbell Art Museum will premiere an online lecture by two world experts on the 19th century, exploring one of the most important paintings of the Romantic period. At first glance, ...
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No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner – he’s Britain’s greatest artist
Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s Mouth, on ...
LONDON — Britain’s new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap. The polymer ...
Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half a ...
To Paint The Modern World, The Daredevil JMW Turner Was Willing To Do Just About Anything—Or Was He?
When the Houses of Parliament caught fire on the evening of October 16, 1834, tens of thousands of Londoners gathered to watch the conflagration from the banks of the Thames. For the painter JMW ...
Were you to consult the National Gallery in London, you would learn that J. M. W. Turner - known as William Turner - is, quote, "perhaps the best-loved English romantic artist." He is something of a ...
Claude Monet is best known for his stunning depictions of water lilies at his garden in northern France. But throughout the mid-1800s and early 1900s, the artist also frequently painted less romantic ...
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This Long-Lost Landscape Painted by a Teenage J.M.W. Turner Was Found Hiding in Plain Sight
Early last year, an oil painting by a “follower of Julius Caesar Ibbetson” sold for $506 at Dreweatts, an auction house in England. Although it fell a few hundred dollars short of the pre-sale ...
Bristol's Museum & Art Gallery is still hoping to bring a Turner painting to the city after losing out on a bid to buy it at auction. The new owner outbid everyday Bristolians, who fundraised to buy a ...
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