Born in 1775, Turner is “perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist,” as London’s National Gallery writes. He painted landscapes and seascapes with a unique attention to light and ...

Look at Turner’s mezzotints, and it can be hard to believe they’re just dots of ink in the grooves of a copper plate ...

Seascapes have a certain beauty to them ... which allows the boat to steer the mighty ship. And to Turner, this was not just a painting on a canvas, but rather he used to call it his ‘Darling’.

A year-long festival of exhibitions and events to celebrate 250 years since the birth of artist JMW Turner has been announced. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April 1775 and was ...

Born in 1775, Turner is “perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist,” as London’s National Gallery writes. He painted landscapes and seascapes with a unique attention to light and color ...

Known as "the painter of light", Turner created landscapes and seascapes that often reflected changes to the landscape and atmosphere caused by human activity, particularly as a result of the ...