- Artist J.M.W.Turner. English Romantic art history

Artist J.M.W.Turner 1775 - 1851. Perhaps the most famous English Romantic landscape artist. He became known as 'the painter of light'. Art history in the making for all modern art can be said to derive from Romanticism, by retired artist Douglas Carpenter. Turner Blog

English Towns Wonderful watercolour pictures of English towns by J.M.W.Turner includes a slide show. Joseph Mallord William Turner (b. 23-4-1775, d. 19-12-1851, both in London) is probably England's greatest landscape and marine artists. Certainly he was one of the most under appreciated.

Norham Castle, on the River Tweed, 1822,

English Rivers in watercolour by J.M.W.Turner English Rivers (slideshow needs Broadband) Turner entered the Royal Academy Schools at the age of fourteen and began his career painting watercolours. His first employment was as a topographical draftsman, in which capacity he travelled around England in the early 1790s

J.M.W.Turner, R.A.The Engravings 1820 - 1835: from the book "The Turner Gallery" Vol 3. including description. Turner studied the science of light and colour, the theory in particular that yellow was closest colour to the production of white light in painting. Amongst his contemporaries he was a unique artist, both in freeing himself from all past artist traditions and art movements.

Paintings of Venice in oil by J.M.W.Turner, Venice, Italy, consists of 120 islands situated on the Adriatic Sea, which make it a unique city with canals rather than roads. It uses boats instead of cars. Their taxi’s and lorries are also boats.

Fighting Temeraire History of this great Turner painting This picture is perhaps the best known of all Turner’s pictures, and it is one which, like “Crossing the Brook,” appeals to all. In these two works—one the most perfect work of his earliest, s the other of his latest style

English Castles Romantic art pictures by J.M.W.Turner English landscape artist, a Londoner born and bred, went to the Royal Academy School of art when he was only 15 years old. One year later his picture was accepted in the Summer Exhibition of 1790. Elected an Associate of the Academy, which was very supportive of his free art style that evolved after his study of the Classic artist movement of old Master painters.

Turner Gallery some famous other less known Turner’s groundbreaking use of watercolour, which spanned his career, culminated in the early 1840s with a series of transcendent views of Swiss lakes and mountains.

J.M.W.Turner artist painter of light as an older man

Chronology:- opinions on Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851). One of the finest landscape artists was William Turner, whose work was exhibited when he was still a teenager. His entire life was devoted to his art. Unlike many artists of his era, he was successful throughout his career.