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Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, [a] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
Turner's paired piece titled Shade and Darkness – The Evening of the Deluge was also exhibited in 1843. In this piece as well as The Morning After the Deluge, Turner makes no attempt to mirror the scene of the flood in its naturality. [3] Fallacies of Hope is a poem that Turner supposedly wrote to parallel the two paintings. [5]
The Author was in this Storm on the Night the "Ariel" left Harwich) [1] is a painting by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) from 1842. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Though panned by many contemporary critics, critic John Ruskin commented in 1843 that it was "one of the very grandest statements of sea-motion, mist and light, that has ever ...
The Departure of the Fleet is an 1850 history painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. [1] Inspired by Classical writings, it depicts the fleet of the Trojan Aeneas departing from Carthage [2] The Carthaginian Queen Dido and her attendants are on the left, watching the departure of the ships.
Peace – Burial at Sea is an oil painting on canvas by the English Romantic artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), first exhibited in 1842. The painting serves as a memorial tribute to Turner's contemporary, the Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841), depicting Wilkie's burial at sea off Gibraltar. It was intended as a companion piece ...
JMW Turner died in 1851 at the age of 76. "His influence continues to resonate, whether through the Turner Prize, his place on the £20 note or the countless artists inspired by his work," a Tate ...
Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening is an 1826 landscape painting by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. [1] [2] It shows a scene as the Rhine River passes through the city of Cologne as a packet boat arrives. Visible on the skyline to the right is Great St. Martin Church, Cologne.
The irregular composition, without geometric axes or perspective, breaks traditional rules of composition. It is similar to Turner's 1800-2 watercolour, Edward I's Army in Wales, painted to illustrate a passage from the poem The Bard by Thomas Gray, in which an army marches diagonally across the painting through a mountain pass, and is assailed by an archer to the left of the painting.