Turner painting

Turner is perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist. He became known as 'the painter of light', because of his increasing interest in brilliant colours as the main constituent in his landscapes and seascapes. His works include water colours, oils and engravings. Turner was born near Covent Garden in London and entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1789.

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William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner's father, a barber and wigmaker, realized his son's artistic talents early, asserting that "my son is going to be a painter." Before enrolling in the Royal Academy, Turner gained some drawing experience in the offices several of London's leading architects. He first exhibited watercolors of architectural subjects and then experimented with scenes from literature and scenery designs for operatic productions. In his early twenties Turner's focus changed to…

J. M. W. Turner, London from Greenwich Park (detail), exhibited 1809

In depicting the final journey of a fêted battleship, Turner tweaked the facts to inflate the pathos of the scene

To mark the release of Mr Turner we look at the landscape painter’s ten essential artworks

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 — 1851, UK) Moonlight on Lake Lucerne with the Rigi in the Distance, Switzerland. c. 1841 watercolour, bodycolour and scratching out on paper. 23 x 30.7 cm (9.06 x 12.09 in.)

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Get to know the man behind some of the most quintessential landscape paintings of all time through these ten artworks by JMW Turner.