Born in London in 1775 to a lower-middle-class family, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a child prodigy. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts at age 14—interestingly, he intended to study ...

British painter J.M.W. Turner was both prolific and peripatetic, producing more than 30,000 watercolors during a lifetime in which he traveled throughout Europe. But these works are extremely ...

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J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, between 1817 and 1820; watercolor, gum, scraping out on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Courtesy the Yale Center for British Art The ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half a ...

The largest collection of watercolors by the British artist J.M.W. Turner opened at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut on Saturday. Nicholas Bell, senior vice president of curatorial affairs at ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s Mouth, on ...

It’s not just Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary this year; JM Turner was born in 1775 too, and John Constable in 1776. So, the Tate has wrapped both birthdays in a big joint exhibition party. There are ...

LONDON — Britain's new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap. The polymer ...