J. M. W. Turner

1775–1851 · Kingdom of Great Britain · Romanticism

Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 23 April 1775 – London, 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter and is regarded as one of the greatest British painters of the 19th century. Wikipedia

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Light and weather dissolving everything: blazing sunsets, storms, steam and sea mist swallowing ships and trains into swirls of colour.

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“The Fighting Temeraire”, 1839 — National Gallery
“Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway”, 1843 — National Gallery
“The Slave Ship”, 1840 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps”, 1812 — National Gallery
“Dido building Carthage”, 1815 — National Gallery
“Fishermen at Sea”, 1796 — Tate
“The Battle of Trafalgar”, 1823 — Royal Museums Greenwich
“Sunrise with Sea Monsters”, 1845 — National Gallery
“The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons”
“Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino”, 1839 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“Caligula's Palace and Bridge”, 1831 — National Gallery
“Vision of Medea”, 1828 — National Gallery
“Frosty morning”, 1813 — National Gallery
“The Field of Waterloo”, 1818 — National Gallery
“The Fifth Plague of Egypt”, 1800 — Cook collection
“Self-Portrait”, 1799 — National Gallery
“The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory”, 1807 — Tate
“Juliet and her Nurse”, 1836 — AMALITA Collection
“Ulysses deriding Polyphemus”, 1829 — National Gallery
“Dolbadarn Castle”, 1800 — National Library of Wales
“Moonlight, a Study at Millbank”, 1797 — National Gallery
“Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth”, 1842 — Tate
“Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower”, 1798 — National Gallery
“The Golden Bough”, 1834 — National Gallery
“England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday”, 1819 — National Gallery
“Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland”, 1798 — National Gallery
“A View of the Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth”, 1790
“The Rising Squall, Hot Wells from St Vincent’s Rock, Bristol”, 1792
“Calais Pier”, 1803 — National Gallery
“Caernarvon Castle”, 1798 — National Gallery
“Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus”, 1798 — National Gallery
“Chichester Canal”, 1828 — National Gallery
“George IV at St Giles’s, Edinburgh”, 1822 — National Gallery
“Regulus”, 1837 — National Gallery
“Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis”, 1843 — National Gallery
“Interior of a Gothic Church”, 1797 — National Gallery
“Norham Castle, Sunrise”, 1845 — National Gallery
“Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight”, 1799 — Yale Center for British Art
“Dutch Boats in a Gale”, 1801 — National Gallery
“Peace – Burial at Sea”, 1842 — National Gallery

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