J. M. W. Turner (1775—1851) was the great Romantic landscapist of English painting.
J. M. W. Turner Summary
- His father, a butcher, was an enthusiastic supporter and the first to sell his drawings
- The deaths of his father (his studio assistant) and Edward Thomas Daniell affected him deeply
- Admitted to the Royal Academy of Art aged 15 by Joshua Reynolds
- Principally a landscape painter, ever attracted to images of calamity
- Also, a capable printmaker, produced the Liber Studiorum, a series with 71 prints
- Friends with follower Augustus Wall Callcott
- Died of cholera in Chelsea, he is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral beside Joshua Reynolds
J. M. W. Turner’s Famous Paintings
- Fishermen at Sea (1796)
- Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801)
- Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
- Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818)
- The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 (1834)
- Wreckers Coast of Northumberland (c. 1836)
- Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino (1839)
- The Slave Ship (1840)
- Rain, Steam and Speed — The Great Western Railway (1844)
- Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)