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Joseph Mallord William Turner

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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Margate

Margate (ca. 1822)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
The Victory Returning from Trafalgar, in Three Positions

The Victory Returning from Trafalgar, in Three Positions (ca. 1806)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
View of Farnley Hall in Yorkshire

View of Farnley Hall in Yorkshire (1808 - 1825)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
The Channel Sketchbook 13

The Channel Sketchbook 13 (ca. 1845)

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

The Channel Sketchbook 40 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Ilam Rock, Dovedale, Derbyshire

Ilam Rock, Dovedale, Derbyshire

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Ludlow Castle, Shropshire

Ludlow Castle, Shropshire

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
North East View of Grantham Church, Lincolnshire

North East View of Grantham Church, Lincolnshire (ca. 1797)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
On the Washburn (2431414)

On the Washburn (2431414) (ca. 1815)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
The Channel Sketchbook 21

The Channel Sketchbook 21 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
The Channel Sketchbook 33

The Channel Sketchbook 33 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Long Ship’s Lighthouse, Land’s End

Long Ship’s Lighthouse, Land’s End (about 1834–1835)

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

Sheerness as seen from the Nore (1808)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
The Channel Sketchbook 11

The Channel Sketchbook 11 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
The Domleschg Valley, Looking North To The Gorge At Rothenbrünnen

The Domleschg Valley, Looking North To The Gorge At Rothenbrünnen (1840)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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