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

JMW Turner was a bit of an eccentric ... After all, Snow Storm hardly looks like a storm. Where other landscape artists of the time depicted nature in lifelike detail, rendering every falling ...

The names of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner have been ... and an “anti-modern conservative.” Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape; By Nicola Moorby; Yale University ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April 1775 and was considered one of the greatest Romantic artists, famous for his landscapes and seascapes. Amongst the events planned for ...

ambitious gallery inspired by the 19th-century artist J.M.W. Turner. A Los Angeles museum threw restraint aside -- wisely -- to pay a world record £29.72 million for a classic Turner landscape at ...

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 ...

This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that created the painter as we know him. By Michael Prodger JMW Turner baffled his contemporaries ...

From huge paintings to complex installations, this year's shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize embrace the 250-year-old artist's ambition.