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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner

English, 1775-1851
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Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman. He earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which due to his troubled, contrary nature, were often begrudgingly accepted. He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828, although he was viewed as profoundly inarticulate. He travelled to Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.

Intensely private, eccentric and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Eveline (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843), by his housekeeper Sarah Danby. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father, after which his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. In 1841, Turner rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as present at any property in that year's census. He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral, London.

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The Channel Sketchbook 4

The Channel Sketchbook 4 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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The Channel Sketchbook 40

The Channel Sketchbook 40 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 41

The Channel Sketchbook 41 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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The Channel Sketchbook 42

The Channel Sketchbook 42 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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The Channel Sketchbook 43

The Channel Sketchbook 43 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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The Channel Sketchbook 44

The Channel Sketchbook 44 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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The Channel Sketchbook 45

The Channel Sketchbook 45 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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The Channel Sketchbook 46

The Channel Sketchbook 46 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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The Channel Sketchbook 47

The Channel Sketchbook 47 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 48

The Channel Sketchbook 48 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 49

The Channel Sketchbook 49 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 5

The Channel Sketchbook 5 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 50

The Channel Sketchbook 50 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 6

The Channel Sketchbook 6 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 7

The Channel Sketchbook 7 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 8

The Channel Sketchbook 8 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 9

The Channel Sketchbook 9 (ca. 1845)

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Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer’s Evening Twilight

Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer’s Evening Twilight (1799)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
Carlisle

Carlisle (ca. 1832)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
Rome from Monte Mario

Rome from Monte Mario (ca. 1818)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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Tivoli with the Temple of the Sybil and the Cascades

Tivoli with the Temple of the Sybil and the Cascades (between 1796 and 1797)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
Lucerne from the Lake

Lucerne from the Lake (1800-1851)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle (circa 1829)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, England

Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, England (c.1834)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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Scarborough town and castle; morning; boys catching crabs

Scarborough town and castle; morning; boys catching crabs (circa 1810)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
The Harbor of Dieppe

The Harbor of Dieppe (circa 1826)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
The Rainbow; Osterspai and Filsen

The Rainbow; Osterspai and Filsen (1817)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
Glaucus and Scylla

Glaucus and Scylla (1841)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Mythology
Sheerness as seen from the Nore

Sheerness as seen from the Nore (1808)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Landscape
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