TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM 1775–1851
Turner entered the Royal Academy Schools at the age of fourteen and began his career painting watercolours. His first employment was as a topographical draftsman, in which capacity he travelled around England in the early 1790s. In 1796 he exhibited his first oil painting, and by 1799 he was an associate member of the Royal Academy. He became a full Academician in 1802. Influenced by Reynolds and the eighteenth-century landscapist Richard Wilson, Turner intended to unite landscape with the noble genre of history painting. He travelled extensively in England and on the Continent and made innumerable sketches, many of which he used as the basis for paintings and prints. Turner’s style changed considerably over his long career, but, while his late works demonstrate the increasing dominance of abstract pictorial qualities, he never abandoned his interest in subject matter. His pictures have a poetic depth that is unsurpassed in British landscape painting.
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Stangate Creek on the River Medway, 1824, 16 x 24cm, Clore Gallery
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Totnes, on the River Dart, 1824, 16 x 23, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection |
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River Tavey, Devonshire, 1813, 22 x 37, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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Junction of the Greta and Tees at Rokery, 1816, 29 x 41cm, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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Shields, on the River Tyne, 1823, 15 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection |
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More Park, near Watford, on the River Colne, 1822, 16 x 22cm |
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Rochester, on the River Medway, 1822, 15 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection |
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Norham Castle, on the River Tweed, 1822, 16 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection |
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Dartmouth Castle on the River Dart, 1822, 16 x 22, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection |
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Kirkstall Abbey, on the River Aire, 1824, 16 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection |
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Mouth of the River Humber, 1924-25, 17 x 24, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection |
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Old London Bridge and Vicinity, 1824, 29 x 44cm, Victoria and Albert Museum |
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Colchester. 1825, 28 x 40cm, Courtauld Institute Gallery |
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Walton Bridge, 1828, 29 x 46cm, Private Collection UK |
- J.M.W.Turner Colchester. 1825
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Colchester. 1825, 28 x 40cm, Courtauld Institute Gallery.
- J.M.W.Turner Dartmouth Castle on the River Dart, 1822
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Dartmouth Castle on the River Dart, 1822, 16 x 22, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection.
- J.M.W.Turner Junction of the Greta and Tees at Rokery
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Junction of the Greta and Tees at Rokery, 1816, 29 x 41cm, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
- J.M.W.Turner Kirkstall Abbey, on the River Aire, 1824
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Kirkstall Abbey, on the River Aire, 1824, 16 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection.
- J.M.W.Turner More Park, near Watford, on the River Colne
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. More Park, near Watford, on the River Colne, 1822, 16 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection.
- J.M.W.Turner Mouth of the River Humber, 1924-25
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Mouth of the River Humber, 1924-25, 17 x 24, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection.
- J.M.W.Turner Norham Castle, on the River Tweed, 1822
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Norham Castle, on the River Tweed, 1822, 16 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection.
- J.M.W.Turner Old London Bridge and Vicinity, 1824
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Old London Bridge and Vicinity, 1824, 29 x 44cm, Victoria and Albert Museum.
- J.M.W.Turner River Tavey, Devonshire, 1813, 22 x 37, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. River Tavey, Devonshire, 1813, 22 x 37, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
- J.M.W.Turner Rochester, on the River Medway, 1822
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Rochester, on the River Medway, 1822, 15 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection.
- J.M.W.Turner - Shields, on the River Tyne, 1823
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Shields, on the River Tyne, 1823, 15 x 22cm, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection.
- J.M.W.Turner Stangate Creek on the River Medway, 1824, 16 x 24cm, Clore Gallery
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Stangate Creek on the River Medway, 1824, 16 x 24cm, Clore Gallery.
- J.M.W.Turner Totnes, on the River Dart, 1824, 16 x 23, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Totnes, on the River Dart, 1824, 16 x 23, Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection.
- J.M.W.Turner Walton Bridge, 1828K
Watercolours of English Rivers by J.M.W.Turner 1775-1851. Walton Bridge, 1828, 29 x 46cm, Private Collection UK.
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