J. M. W. Turner
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (April 23 1775 (exact date disputed) – December 19 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, known for works such as Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844). The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.
Selected works
- 1799–Warkworth Castle, Northumberland–Thunder Storm Approaching at Sun-Set, oil on canvas–Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 1806–The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory, oil on canvas–Tate Gallery, London
- 1812–Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, oil on canvas, Tate Gallery, London
- 1817–Eruption of Vesuvius, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
- 1822–The Battle of Trafalgar, oil on canvas, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
- 1829–Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London
- 1835–The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
- 1835–The Grand Canal, Venice, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- 1838–The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London
- 1839–Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino, oil on canvas, Private Collection on loan to The National Gallery, Scotland
- 1840–Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 1840–Glaucus and Scylla, oil on canvas, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
- 1840–Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water, oil on canvas, Clark Art Museum, Williamstown, MA
- 1844–Rain, Steam and Speed–The Great Western Railway, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London
- Date unknown–Shrimpers, Lyme Regis, oil on board, National Trust for England and Wales, Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire, UK
See also
- British art
- Cloudscape (art)
- English school of painting
- History of painting
- Romanticism
- Western painting
- Turner Prize
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