By Michael Prodger JMW Turner baffled his contemporaries. At the beginning of his career he was a prodigy, a preternaturally gifted tyro who joined the Royal Academy Schools at 14, and at 15 became ...

Tickets for the Walker Art Gallery’s major exhibition exploring the work of JMW Turner and his enduring impact on later generations are on sale from today – exactly 250 years since the artist ...

Who was better, JMW Turner or John Constable? A daft question, surely, or so I thought. In my recent book on British art, I avoided choosing. Two greats, too different. But when The Times asked me ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are currently 14 exhibitions showcasing the works of Joseph Mallord William Turner in various locations around the world, including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio (USA), Paris ...

And in Art In The Wild, the Kwapong family visit The National Gallery, where they reimagine masterpieces by the likes of Henri Rousseau, Georges Seurat, and JMW Turner, with graphics bringing ...

It is apparently no more than a happy accident that the British Museum’s Hiroshige: artist of the open road is opening within a week of the 250th anniversary of the birth of JMW Turner.