Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) shattered artistic convention, dissolving form into movement and light into ...

Showcasing the Romantic artist's early innovations with oil paint, "The Rising Squall" could fetch up to $400,000. Before it ...

Lost and tucked away in a private collection for over 150 years, one of J.M.W. Turner's earliest oil paintings has been ...

In 2024, a cracked and yellowing painting by an unknown artist that had been languishing in obscurity for more than 150 years ...

The work was previously attributed to a follower of the 18th-century artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson, but experts agree it was infact painted by a teenaged Turner. One of J.M.W. Turner’s earliest oil ...

And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade.

They were packed like cargo onto the slave ship the Morovia (or the York; accounts vary). Their fate was excruciatingly obvious, and the only answer was a rebellion. The Igbo overpowered the ship ...

And in an August obituary of civil rights leader Julian Bond, the Times called his great-grandmother Jane Bond “the slave mistress of a Kentucky farmer”—a term that accords far too much ...

There are currently 14 exhibitions showcasing the works of Joseph Mallord William Turner in various locations around the world, including Bath, Bedford, London, Manchester, Twickenham (UK), ...

How about this?’ ” In “Lose Your Mother,” she wrote of a girl who was tortured to death on a British slave ship, possibly because she had refused to dance naked for the captain.