J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His artistic style developed over his lifetime, moving away from Romanticism—bypassing the following rising style of Realism—and, instead, with his later works being a significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death.
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Background
- Born in
- Maiden Lane
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Arts
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"Dear Hawkesworth, Mother Goose came to a rehearsal before Christmas day, having arrived on Saturday for the knife.. .Many thanks for the brace of pheasants and hares—by the same train—indeed, I think …"
"He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended."
"Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed."
"Then you will do away with the only social meetings we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one ano…"
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1775
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Birth1851
Died
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