PLASTIC £20 notes are now in circulation, featuring a celebrated masterpiece by JMW Turner - one of Britain's greatest romantic artists. Here's what we know about the "painter of light" and face ...

A new £20 banknote featuring artist JMW Turner will start to appear in ATMs and tills from Thursday as it enters circulation. The new polymer £20 note will replace the paper £20 note featuring ...

Turner simply signed his works ‘W Turner’ and even now most of us are familiar with him as ‘JMW Turner.’” Financial gain is spurring the trend, too. “The high prices that these early ...

Turner, born in 1775, was especially known for his depiction of light in his watercolour and oil paintings. He has a wide collection of finished paintings, mostly of beautiful landscapes or ...

For the painter JMW Turner, the spectacle required a better view. Renting a boat, he swiftly recorded this most newsworthy of events in his sketchbook. Back in his studio, he transformed his front ...

JMW Turner was a bit of an eccentric, as well as a recluse, but on the rare occasion that he did attend a party or gathering, he always had interesting stories to tell. One of his most intriguing ...

J.M.W. Turner, Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel, St David’s, (1795). Courtesy Cheffins Auctioneers A J.M.W Turner watercolor that was acquired for a mere £100 ($127) in the early 1990s is now expected ...

As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated painting, The Fighting Temeraire. JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire ...

JMW Turner, who died in 1851 at the age of 76, is considered to be one of Britain's greatest landscape artists A new exhibition is to examine how British artist JMW Turner unknowingly captured the ...

None of them were aware that this bluff codger with an air of the sea about him was in reality the greatest painter in England: Joseph Mallord William Turner RA. Nor were these unsuspecting ...

This being the 250th anniversary of JMW Turner’s death, there are any number of events and exhibitions dedicated to the great man, who was, let’s not forget, one of the great revolutionaries ...