The people behind the art

J. M. W. Turner

1775 to 1851

J. M. W. Turner was an English painter and draftsman (c.1775–1851). Their work is associated with Romanticism; English painting. Their recorded places of work include Vienna; Belgium; Prague; Dieppe; Lyon; Paris; Rouen; Berlin; Dresden; Heidelberg; Constance; Bologna; Florence; Naples; Rome; Turin; Venice; Amsterdam; Delft; Dordrecht; Haarlem; Leiden; Rotterdam; The Hague; Utrecht; Lucerne; Rheinfelden; Zurich; Bristol; Chester; Edinburgh; London; Malmesbury; Twickenham.

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Born: 1775
Died: 1851
Nationality: Kingdom of Great Britain; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Birthplace: Covent Garden; Maiden Lane; London
Died in: Cheyne Walk; Chelsea; Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Artworks by J. M. W. Turner

Britishexhibited 1842

Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner

A paddle steamer fights a violent storm at sea, and J. M. W. Turner paints the struggle as a dark, swirling vortex. This gallery tour reads the painting's composition, colour and brushwork against the Romantic idea of the sublime, and separates what the evidence establishes from what later tellers added.

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