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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 ?C 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is 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. Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterised by a chromatic palette and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint. According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles." However, Turner was still recognised as an artistic genius: the influential English art critic John Ruskin described Turner as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature." (Piper 321) Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires (such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen in Dawn after the Wreck (1840) and The Slave Ship (1840). Turner placed human beings in many of his paintings to indicate his affection for humanity on the one hand (note the frequent scenes of people drinking and merry-making or working in the foreground), but its vulnerability and vulgarity amid the 'sublime' nature of the world on the other hand. 'Sublime' here means awe-inspiring, savage grandeur, a natural world unmastered by man, evidence of the power of God - a theme that artists and poets were exploring in this period. The significance of light was to Turner the emanation of God's spirit and this was why he refined the subject matter of his later paintings by leaving out solid objects and detail, concentrating on the play of light on water, the radiance of skies and fires. Although these late paintings appear to be 'impressionistic' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of spirituality in the world, rather than responding primarily to optical phenomena. Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway painted (1844).His early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stayed true to the traditions of English landscape. However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature had already come into play. His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects. (Piper 321) One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself "tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama" of the elements during a storm at sea. In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognizable. The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.

 

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Calais Pier,with French poissards preparing for sea:an English packet arriving (detail) (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24460

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Calais Pier,with French poissards preparing for sea:an English packet arriving (detail) (mk31)
1803 Oil on canvas 172x240cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner A coast scene with fisherman hauling a boat ashore (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24461

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
A coast scene with fisherman hauling a boat ashore (mk31)
1803-1804 Oil on canvas 91.4x122cm The Iveagh Bequest,Kenwood.London
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Shipwreck (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24462

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Shipwreck (mk31)
1805 Oil on canvas 170.5x241.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sun rising tyhrough vapour:Fishermen cleaning and selling  fish  (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24463

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Sun rising tyhrough vapour:Fishermen cleaning and selling fish (mk31)
1807 Oil on canvas 134.5x179cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner A country blacksmith disputing upon the price of iron,and the price charged to the butcher for shoeing his pony (mk310 oil painting

Painting ID::  24464

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
A country blacksmith disputing upon the price of iron,and the price charged to the butcher for shoeing his pony (mk310
Oil on fir-plank 55x78cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Grand Junction Canal at Southall Mill Windmill and Lock (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24465

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Grand Junction Canal at Southall Mill Windmill and Lock (mk31)
1810 Oil on canvas 92x122cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bolton Abbey,Yorkshire (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24466

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Bolton Abbey,Yorkshire (mk31)
1809 Watercolour 27.8x39.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing upon Blythe-sand,tide setting in (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24467

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Fishing upon Blythe-sand,tide setting in (mk31)
1809 Oil on canvas 89x119.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Crossing the brook (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24468

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Crossing the brook (mk31)
1815 Oil on canvas 193x165cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hastings:Deep-sea fishing (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24469

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Hastings:Deep-sea fishing (mk31)
1818 Watercolour 39.8x59.1cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Saltash,Cornwall (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24470

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Saltash,Cornwall (mk31)
1825 Watercolour 27x41cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Whiby,Yorkshire (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24471

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Whiby,Yorkshire (mk31)
1825-1830 Watercolour 15.9x24.8cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Prudhoe Castle,Northumberland (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24472

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Prudhoe Castle,Northumberland (mk31)
1826 Watercolour 29x41cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Windsor Castle,Berkshire (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24473

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Windsor Castle,Berkshire (mk31)
1827-1829 Watercolour 29x43cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping off East Cowes Headland (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24474

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Shipping off East Cowes Headland (mk31)
1827 Oil on canvas 46x60cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth Park.Tillington Church in the distance.Ca (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24475

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Petworth Park.Tillington Church in the distance.Ca (mk31)
Ca.1828 Oil on canvas 64.5x145.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Chichester Canal (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24476

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Chichester Canal (mk31)
1828 Oil on canvas 121x90.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Music party in Petworth (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24477

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Music party in Petworth (mk31)
1835 Oil on canvas 121x90.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Caernarvon Castle,Wales (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24478

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Caernarvon Castle,Wales (mk31)
1833-1834 Watercolour 29x44cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner The passage of Mount St.Gothard,taken from the centre of the Teufels Broch Switzerland (mk31) oil painting

Painting ID::  24479

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
The passage of Mount St.Gothard,taken from the centre of the Teufels Broch Switzerland (mk31)
1804 Watercolour 98.5x68.5cm
   
   
     

 

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 ?C 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is 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. Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterised by a chromatic palette and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint. According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles." However, Turner was still recognised as an artistic genius: the influential English art critic John Ruskin described Turner as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature." (Piper 321) Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires (such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen in Dawn after the Wreck (1840) and The Slave Ship (1840). Turner placed human beings in many of his paintings to indicate his affection for humanity on the one hand (note the frequent scenes of people drinking and merry-making or working in the foreground), but its vulnerability and vulgarity amid the 'sublime' nature of the world on the other hand. 'Sublime' here means awe-inspiring, savage grandeur, a natural world unmastered by man, evidence of the power of God - a theme that artists and poets were exploring in this period. The significance of light was to Turner the emanation of God's spirit and this was why he refined the subject matter of his later paintings by leaving out solid objects and detail, concentrating on the play of light on water, the radiance of skies and fires. Although these late paintings appear to be 'impressionistic' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of spirituality in the world, rather than responding primarily to optical phenomena. Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway painted (1844).His early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stayed true to the traditions of English landscape. However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature had already come into play. His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects. (Piper 321) One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself "tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama" of the elements during a storm at sea. In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognizable. The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.