William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner (Covent Garden 1775 - London 1851) was a British 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).

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. [1] The Shipwreck, (1805) [2] shows his emphasis on luminosity, and dramatic subjects.

From 1807 he published a series of landscape prints known as the Liber Studiorum ('Book of Studies'), which demonstrated his abilities in every area of landscape art. [3]

Turner anticipated French Impressionism.

"The father of modern art", John Ruskin, 1843

Shipweck of the Minotaur

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See also

• English Painting
• Painting Schools
• Gallery of Seascapes
• Antony van Dyck
• Sir Joshua Reynolds
• John Constable
• Claude Lorrain

External links

• William Turner Web Gallery of Art.
• J.M.W.Turner in Venice
• Fame and the Founding Father By Joseph Phelan.
• Joseph Mallord William Turner Watercolor artists.
• The story behind The Fighting Temeraire Britain's favourite painting.