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J. M. W. Turner
English painter (–)
Not to be confused with the painter William Turner of Oxford.
Joseph Mallord William TurnerRA (23 April 19 December ), known in his time as William Turner,[a] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
Jmw turner brief biography example
He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than oil paintings, 2, watercolours, and 30, works on paper.[1] He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from , and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.[2]
Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family and retained his lower-class accent, while assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame.
A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from , enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work