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Who is Turner?In this series, George T. M. Shackelford, Deputy Director and Curator of European Art, discusses J. M. W. Turner’s work and the themes in “Turn...
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BBC documentary. While Joseph Mallord William Turner is considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter, his private life reveals a man of extr...
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BBC documentary. A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines...
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Apr 27, 2018 · Apr 27, 2018 12:15PM. J. M. W. Turner. The Fighting Temeraire, 1839. The National Gallery, London. By the time of his death in 1851, Joseph Mallord William Turner had been living under an alias in a Chelsea hovel in London for at least five years. Few knew his whereabouts, not even the housekeeper of his official residence at 47 Queen Anne Street.
J.M.W. Turner remains one of Britain’s most admired artists through his achievements in both oils and watercolours. At the beginning of the 19th century, he came to prominence at the same time as John Constable, John Crome, John Sell Cotman, Peter De Wint and David Cox, in an era when landscape as a genre was achieving a new status and significance.
Turner painted this watercolour after witnessing the fire that destroyed the Houses of Commons and Lords in October 1834. A large crowd, held back by soldiers, watches firefighters tackling the blaze. Turner returned to the subject again the following year in two oil paintings imagining the view of the fire from the other side of the Thames.
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Apr 7, 2002 · Turner: The Man Who Painted Britain While Joseph Mallord William Turner is considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter, his private life reveals a man of extremes and contradictions.
