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 ...

J.M.W. Turner, Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel, St David’s, (1795). Courtesy Cheffins Auctioneers A J.M.W Turner watercolor that was acquired for a mere £100 ($127) in the early 1990s is now expected to fetch ...

Remember that time J.M.W. Turner grew a thumbnail long enough to be almost grotesque, to perforate the paper and lift the paint into an effect of rushing iridescence? Or the time he used a pumice ...

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 ...

For over 100 years, the subject of J.M.W. Turner‘s “The Burning of the Houses of Parliament,” a series of nine watercolors, has been identified as the October 1834 fire that burned down London’s old ...

A historical museum might seem an unlikely place for an exhibit by one of the world’s foremost Romantic painters, but 97 watercolors by J.M.W. Turner are on the walls at Mystic Seaport, the only North ...

MYSTIC, Conn. — There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who like Joseph Mallord William Turner, and those who like him a lot. I say this because I don’t know how it’s possible to not at ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A watercolor by British master artist JMW Turner not seen in public for more than a century and listed as lost goes on sale next week with a price tag in excess of 1.5 million ...

Inspired by Turner’s travels to Switzerland between 1841 and 1844, the watercolor captures what is considered one of the most dramatic landscapes in the Swiss Alps—a view of the picturesque village of ...

In an 1816 essay,William Hazlitt passed along this observation about England’s greatest painter: “Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.” Joseph Mallord ...

A lost watercolour by one of Britain's greatest landscape artists has sold at auction for £96,000. The JMW Turner painting of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, was found "stuck among" a number of other ...