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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.
English Rivers in watercolour by
J.M.W.Turner
English Rivers slideshow (needs
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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 |
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