Self Portrait
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
His 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.
Turner's will, which was under litigation for many years, left more than 19,000 watercolors, drawings, and oils to the British nation. Most of these works are in the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery, London. Many of Turner's oils have deteriorated badly.
The Slave Ship 1840
Dutch Boats in a Gale 1801
Snow Storm, Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps 1812
Mount Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817
A First Rate Taking In Stores
The Grand Canal, Venice 1835
Lifeboat and Manby Apparatus going off to a stranded vessel making signal blue lights of distress , c.1831
Shields, on the River Tyne
The Fighting 'Téméraire' tugged to her last Berth to be broken up
The 'Fighting Temeraire' tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up 1838-39
Ancient Italy Ovid Banished From Rome
Caernarvon Castle