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Date of birth/death: circa 23 ... Abergavenny Bridge 1798 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner ... Photo (c) Tate:
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.
The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on, [1] is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in 1840. Measuring 35 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 48 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (91 cm × 123 cm) in oil on canvas, it is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Regulus is an oil painting by English artist J. M. W. Turner, initially painted in 1828, and now in Tate Britain, London.It depicts the legend of Roman consul Marcus Atilius Regulus' death, in which he was captured by Carthaginian forces and eventually executed after being blinded by the Sun.
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Turner took a degree of artistic licence with the painting. The ship was known to her crew as "Saucy", rather than "Fighting" Temeraire . [ 16 ] Before being sold to the ship-breaker John Beatson, the ship had been lying at Sheerness Dockyard , and was then moved to his wharf at Rotherhithe , [ 17 ] then in Surrey but now in Southwark .
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The Fifth Plague of Egypt is an 1800 oil painting by Romantic English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner currently in the permanent collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Despite its title, it depicts Moses cursing the Egyptians with a plague of hail and fire, known as the seventh plague .