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J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter and elevated the status of landscape painting. Turner is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential British painters, as well as a precursor to Impressionism.
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culture · English painter (1775–1851) · painter · landscape painter · draftsperson · printmaker · architectural drafter · visual artist · illustrator · artist · also J. M. W. Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, William Turner, James Mallord William Turner, Joseph Mallord W. Turner, JMW Turner
Born 23 April 1775 · Died 19 December 1851 · Q159758
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Observer: J. M. W. Turner at 250: The Prince of the Rocks’ Lasting Legacy
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Wall Street Journal: ‘J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality’ Review: The Measure of a Master
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2005· 1 entry
Turner's The Fighting Temeraire was voted Britain's "greatest painting" in a public poll organised by the BBC
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1987· 1 entry
A new wing at the Tate, the Clore Gallery, was opened to house the Turner bequest although some of the most important paintings remain in the National Gallery in contravention of Turner's condition that they be kept and
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1984· 2 entries
Is presented every year to a British visual artist, and includes a cash award of £40,000
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Named in Turner's honour, and 20 years later, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours founded the Winsor & Newton Turner Watercolour Award
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1974· 1 entry
By Douglass Montrose-Graem to house his collection of Turner prints
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1910· 1 entry
The main part of the Turner Bequest, which includes unfinished paintings and drawings, was rehoused in the Duveen Turner Wing at the National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Britain)
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1899· 1 entry
Owned more than one hundred watercolours and drawings by Turner and as many prints
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1870· 1 entry
20 years after Turner's death
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1856· 1 entry
After a court battle, his first cousins, including Thomas Price Turner, received part of his fortune
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1851· 3 entries
Died 1851-12-19.
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Aged 76, at the residence of Sophia Booth, the woman believed to be his common law wife
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“It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.”
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1834· 1 entry
An event which Turner witnessed first-hand, and transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog
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1829· 2 entries
“s studio, he found the old man on his knees colouring a canvas, when Turner made his appearance, and good-humouredly trundled out the visitor [Turner, the engraver], telling him he was on forbidden ground. Turner was much attached to his father, and at his death stayed with us a few days at Heston for change of scene. He was fearfully out of spirits, and felt his loss, he said, like that of an only child.. .Turner never appeared the same man after his father”
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Had a profound effect on him, and thereafter, he was subject to bouts of depression
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1819· 1 entry
Turner made his first extended journey through Italy, travelling through Turin, Milan, Como, Venice, Rome, Naples and other cities while producing numerous sketches and watercolours
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1811· 1 entry
Bought Sandycombe Lodge, a rural villa in the riverside town of Twickenham
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1804· 2 entries
Opened a private gallery; a very unusual action at the time
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Turner distanced himself from the Academy but he had other ways to show and sell his work; in 1799 he had created his own gallery, run by his proud father, and "for over a decade it was a regular feature of the London ex
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1801· 1 entry
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater paid him 250 guineas (equivalent to over £20,000 today) for the marine painting Dutch Boats in a Gale
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1775· 1 entry
Born 1775-04-23.
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