Gustave Courbet
French painter (1819-1877)
J.M.W. Turner was an acclaimed English Romantic painter known for his stunning landscapes and seascapes. Despite his lower-class background, he became a celebrated artist, leaving behind thousands of paintings, watercolors, and sketches. Turner was an eccentric and private figure who remained unmarried but fathered two children, and is now regarded as one of the greatest landscape painters of all time.
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About the J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner and Georgiana (1811-1843), by the widow Sarah Danby. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father in 1829; when his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. In 1841, Turner rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as present at any property in that year’s census. He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
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J.M.W. Turner was born on April 23, 1775 in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London.
J.M.W. Turner was an English Romantic painter, printmaker, and watercolourist known for his expressive use of color, imaginative landscapes, and turbulent marine paintings.
J.M.W. Turner left behind over 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors, and 30,000 works on paper.
Turner was born to a modest lower-middle-class family and retained his lower-class accent, while avoiding the trappings of success and fame.
Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career, but was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840 and is now regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
As Turner became more pessimistic and morose, especially after the death of his father in 1829, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified.
J.M.W. Turner is buried in St Paul’s Cathedral, London.