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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 ...

The renowned English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner is celebrated as “the painter of light” for the masterly ways he depicted sunlight in his landscapes and seascapes. “The play of light is integral ...

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 ...

BOSTON – J.M.W. Turner painted his tumultuous times in incandescent colors, depicting sea battles and the human cost of war, slavery and industrialism with a visionary style that shaped the course of ...

NEW HAVEN — How much is too much Turner? New England’s determined to put it to the test. The past few years have seen no less than four major showcases of the British firebrand’s catalytic oeuvre ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner is an institution, admired in his lifetime and today with a wing of Tate Britain dedicated to the vast number of works he bequeathed to the nation. “The Fighting ...

As some 200 works from Martyn Gregory’s collection of British art are offered online, specialist Annabel Kishor and writer Alexandra Harris examine a group of pictures.