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'''Joseph Mallord William Turner''' (Covent Garden 1775 - [[London]] 1851) was a [[British]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] painter and printmaker. In 1802, when he was only 26, he became a full member of the Royal Academy, the youngest member ever so admitted. He traveled constantly in England and abroad ([[Venice]]). A prolific artist, Turner produced over 550 oil paintings, over 2,000 highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and some 30,000 works on paper. [http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/]

'''Joseph Mallord William Turner''' (Covent Garden 1775 - [[London]] 1851) was a [[British]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] painter and printmaker. Important artistic influences upon Turner during the 1790's were [[Thomas Gainsborough]], Michael Angelo Rooker, [[Philippe De Loutherbourg|Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg]], Henry Fuseli and Richard Wilson. [http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/Turner_biography.pdf] In 1802, when he was only 26, he became a full member of the Royal Academy, the youngest member ever so admitted. He traveled constantly in England and abroad ([[Venice]]). A prolific artist, Turner produced over 550 oil paintings, over 2,000 highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and some 30,000 works on paper. [http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/]

Turner is perhaps the most famous [[English]] Romantic [[landscape]] artist. He became known as "the painter of light", perhaps inspired by the 'year without a summer', and the amazing sunsets that resulted from it. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Year_Without_a_Summer] ''The Shipwreck'', (1805) [http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Turner_The_Shipwreck.jpg] shows his emphasis on luminosity, and dramatic subjects.

Turner is perhaps the most famous [[English]] Romantic [[landscape]] artist. He became known as "the painter of light", perhaps inspired by the 'year without a summer', and the amazing sunsets that resulted from it. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Year_Without_a_Summer] ''The Shipwreck'', (1805) [http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Turner_The_Shipwreck.jpg] shows his emphasis on luminosity, and dramatic subjects. He is considered not only Britain's greatest painter but arguably the finest landscape and marine painter ever. [http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/]

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Turner anticipated [[French]] [[Impressionism]].  

There are many aspects of Turner's art that can displease — his clumsily drawn and sometimes ludicrously posed landscape figures... but he remains a giant in the watercolor tradition for his incredibly innovative technique and his increasing fascination with light and atmosphere as the fundamental subject of a painting. Turner's impact on [[Victorian Age|Victorian art]] was stupendous. [http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/artist05.html] Turner anticipated [[French]] [[Impressionism]].  

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