The Battle of Trafalgar (1806)
J. M. W. Turner · 1806
J. M. W. Turner
Kingdom of Great Britain · 1775–1851
Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter and elevated the status of landscape painting. Turner is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential British painters, as well as a precursor to Impressionism. Turner started his career as a watercolourist, achieved fame and financial success as an oil painter and was also an expert printmaker. His later paintings challenged classicisist artistic conventions and were rejected by critics but are considered today his most important works. Their expressionistic renditions of light and atmosphere inspired the early impressionists Monet and Pissarro when they saw them in London in 1870–1920 years after Turner's death.
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The Battle of Trafalgar (1806)
J. M. W. Turner · 1806
Tate Britain
Sketch for "Nantes from the Ile Feydeau."
J. M. W. Turner · 1826
Tate Britain
The Slave Ship
J. M. W. Turner · 1840
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Piazzetta, Venice
J. M. W. Turner · 1835
Scottish National Gallery
Norham Castle, Sunrise
J. M. W. Turner · 1845
Tate Britain
Dido building Carthage
J. M. W. Turner · 1815
National Gallery
Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus: Demosthenes Taunted by Aeschines
J. M. W. Turner · 1838
Tate Britain
Sea View
J. M. W. Turner · 1826
Scottish National Gallery
Harbour View
J. M. W. Turner · 1826
Scottish National Gallery
The Grand Canal: Scene - A Street in Venice
J. M. W. Turner · 1837
Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
Buttermere Lake, with Park of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower
J. M. W. Turner · 1797
Tate Britain
Citadel of St.-Esprit, with the Louis and Beck Bastions
J. M. W. Turner · 1839
Tate Britain
Saint-Maurice bridge
J. M. W. Turner · 1820
Tate Britain
The Harbour of Brest The Quayside and Chateau
J. M. W. Turner · 1826
Tate Britain
Study of the Venus de’ Medici
J. M. W. Turner · 1792
Tate Britain
Luxembourg from the Alzette Valley to the North
J. M. W. Turner · 1839
Tate Britain
Study of the Fighting Gladiator
J. M. W. Turner · 1793
Tate Britain
The Head and Torso of the Apollo Belvedere
J. M. W. Turner · 1792
Tate Britain
Rome from Monte Mario
J. M. W. Turner · 1820
Scottish National Gallery
Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight
J. M. W. Turner · 1840
Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway
J. M. W. Turner · 1843
National Gallery
The Campo Santo
J. M. W. Turner · 1842
Toledo Museum of Art
The Fighting Temeraire
J. M. W. Turner · 1839
National Gallery
Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, Accompanied by La Fornarina, Preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia
J. M. W. Turner · 1820
Tate Britain
Peace – Burial at Sea
J. M. W. Turner · 1842
Tate Britain
A distant view of Petworth House across the lake in Petworth Park
J. M. W. Turner
Tate Britain
The Scarlet Sunset
J. M. W. Turner
Tate Britain
Works worth knowing
4 of J. M. W. Turner's works, and what makes each one worth a look.
The Slave Ship
J. M. W. Turner · 1840
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. Turner, first exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in 1840. Measuring 35+3⁄4 in × 48+1⁄4 in (91 cm × 123 cm) in oil on canvas, it is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Norham Castle, Sunrise
J. M. W. Turner · 1845
Tate Britain
Norham Castle, Sunrise is an oil-on-canvas painting by English painter J. Turner, created around 1845. The painting depicts Norham Castle, overlooking the River Tweed, the border between England and Scotland.
Dido building Carthage
J. M. W. Turner · 1815
National Gallery
Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire is an oil on canvas painting by J. The painting is one of Turner's most important works, greatly influenced by the luminous classical landscapes of Claude Lorrain. Turner described it as his chef d'oeuvre.
Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus: Demosthenes Taunted by Aeschines
J. M. W. Turner · 1838
Tate Britain
Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus, Demosthenes Taunted by Aeschines is an 1838 history painting by the British artist J. It depicts a scene in Ancient Athens in the 4th century BC, combining two different legendary stories. The celebrated courtesan Phryne is going to the public baths in a public parade dressed as Venus.
How J. M. W. Turner worked
From the record of their own practice.
Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterised by a chromatic palette and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint. According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles". Turner was recognised as an artistic genius; the English art critic John Ruskin described him as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature". Turner's imagination was sparked by shipwrecks, fires (including the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner witnessed first-hand, and transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog.
Where the work hangs
The museums that hold it, and their visitor guides.
Tate Britain
16 in the archive · London
Scottish National Gallery
4 in the archive · Edinburgh
National Gallery
3 in the archive · London
Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
2 in the archive · San Marino, California
Toledo Museum of Art
1 in the archive · Toledo
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1 in the archive · Boston
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