The story that John Ruskin set Turner's scandalous nude paintings on fire was accepted as truth, but centuries later, the ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s ...

But his later paintings, such as his 1842 “Burial ... an earlier version of this story misstated when Joseph Mallord William (J.M.W.) Turner’s painting “Burial at Sea” hung at the Museum ...

The watercolor was among a group of paintings they acquired at a Suffolk ... and even now most of us are familiar with him as ‘JMW Turner.’” Financial gain is spurring the trend, too.

By Karen Rosenberg Franny Moyle’s ambitious biography depicts J.M.W. Turner’s talent, work ethic and self-involvement in detail but with little style or warmth. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

JMW Turner was a bit of an eccentric ... To depict the dramatic weather as accurately as possible, the artist allegedly tied himself to the mast of a ship that was heading into troubled water ...

From Landscape painting to Pop Art, there is a wealth of exhibitions to see in the UK outside of London this summer, ...

J.M.W. Turner, Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel ... The English Romantic artist, who would have been aged 20 at the time, was already considered a prodigy for his expressive landscapes, marine paintings ...

A host of exhibitions and events are marking this moment, and we speak to Amy Concannon, the senior curator of historic British art at Tate Britain, about Turner’s enduring appeal. JMW Turner ...

The JMW Turner painting of Hampton Court ... Turner would only have been about 21 when he painted the work. The artist entered the Royal Academy drawing schools when he was 14 in 1789 and was ...