JMW Turner, 1775 - 1851 Artist. West Malling. Kent. UK
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JMW Turner, 1775 - 1851 Artist.
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Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/18/2022
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JMW Turner
1775 - 1851
Artist
Painted this cascade 1791
Drew St Leonard's Tower 1791
The Abbey Tower 1798
From Wikipeadia:
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper.
He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman.
He earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which due to his troubled, contrary nature, were often begrudgingly accepted.
He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828.
He travelled to Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76.
He is buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral, London.
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