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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.
Made during the latter years of Turner's career, this painting depicts the aftermath of the Great Flood story told in the Book of Genesis. [2] The role of man is portrayed as passive through his inability to control nature, which is beautiful to the eye yet has the power to destroy and recreate life.
The Painting is attributed to Turner. It is highly likely to be a Turner work, and part of the Turner Bequest also. [3] Interior of a Romanesque Church: c.1795–1800 Tate Britain, London: 61 x 50.2 Fishermen at Sea: 1796 Tate Britain, London: 91.4 × 122.2 Diana and Callisto (after Wilson) 1796 Tate Britain, London: 56.5 x 91.4 Interior of a ...
The Dort, or Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed is an 1818 painting by J. M. W. Turner, based on drawings made by him in mid September 1817. [1] It shows a view of the harbour of Dordrecht. It is the finest example of the influence of Dutch marine painting on Turner's work. [2]
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.
Liber Studiorum (Latin: Book of Studies [2]) is a collection of prints by J. M. W. Turner. The collected works included seventy-one prints that he worked on and printed from 1807 to 1819. [3] For the production of the prints, Turner created the etchings for the prints, which were worked in mezzotint by his collaborating engravers. [4]
His first major work was Lays and Legends; or, Ballads of the New World (1851). It followed a history of the Buccaneers , Monarchs of the Main , (1855), Shakespeare's England; or, Sketches of our Social History in the reign of Elizabeth (1856, 2 Vols.) and Art and nature at home and abroad (1856, 2 Vols.).