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Artist a Day: WILLIAM TURNER

Artist a day! JOSEPH-MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER  (1775-1851)   Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, also known as William Turner, was an English Romantic artist.

Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm, 1810

The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons

Turner's Works

Artist a day! JOSEPH-MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER  (1775-1851)   He's known as a painter, printmaker, and watercolorist.  He is recognized for his expressive colorizations, imaginative landscapes, and wild, often intense marine paintings.

Graphite and watercolour on paper, 35.9 x 25 cm, 1851

Tintern Abbey. The Crossing and Chancel, Looking Towards the East Window

Turner's Works

Artist a day! JOSEPH-MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER  (1775-1851)   Turner is the most immeasurable landscape painter of Western art.

Turner began his early career as an academic painter. He gradually unfolded towards a loose, mysterious style, sometimes even outlining the abstract concepts, which were misinterpreted and discarded by the same critics who honored him for decades.

Watercolour on paper, 39.7 x 28.6 cm, 1817

Mount Vesuvius in Eruption

Turner's Works

"It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create." "My job is to paint what I see, not what I know."

Famous Quotes by  William Turner

Watercolor on paper, 18.9 x 28.5 cm, 1825

Shipwreck off Hastings

Turner's Works

Watercolor on paper, 166 x 250 cm, 1819

Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh

Turner's Works

Oil on canvas, 60 x 75.5 cm, 1830

Death on a Pale Horse

Turner's Works

Watercolor on paper, 101 x 68 cm, 1851

The Passage of Mt. St Gothard

Turner's Works

Watercolor on paper, 69.5 x 101 cm, 1815

The Battle of Fort Rock, Val d'Aoste, Piedmont

Turner's Works

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