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Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Channel Sketchbook 41

The Channel Sketchbook 41 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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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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Linlithgow Palace

Linlithgow Palace

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From the Isola Borromena, Lago Maggiore

From the Isola Borromena, Lago Maggiore (ca. 1795)

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A Packet Boat off Dover

A Packet Boat off Dover (c. 1836)

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The Junction of the Thames and the Medway

The Junction of the Thames and the Medway (1807)

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The Channel Sketchbook 37

The Channel Sketchbook 37 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Man with Horse and Cart Entering a Quarry

Man with Horse and Cart Entering a Quarry (ca. 1797)

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Saint Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire

Saint Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire

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Folkestone Harbour and Coast to Dover

Folkestone Harbour and Coast to Dover (ca. 1829)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
The Channel Sketchbook 26

The Channel Sketchbook 26 (ca. 1845)

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The Channel Sketchbook 33

The Channel Sketchbook 33 (ca. 1845)

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Ludlow Castle, Shropshire

Ludlow Castle, Shropshire

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The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 (1835)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Buildings Overlooking Water, near Naples

Buildings Overlooking Water, near Naples (ca. 1796)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
The Channel Sketchbook 20

The Channel Sketchbook 20 (ca. 1845)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
South Porch and Tower of an Unidentified Church

South Porch and Tower of an Unidentified Church (between 1790 and 1795)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
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