The country's most important prize for modern artalso bears the name of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). The ...

Sure, Turner was a proud en plein air painter, preferring to produce his paintings out in the open as opposed to inside a studio. Joseph Mallord William Turner, Self portrait, age 24 (ca. 1754).

No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner – he’s Britain’s greatest artist - IN FOCUS: It’s 250 years since ...

The painting that resulted, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842), shows a boat literally in the eye of the storm, caught in the middle of a spiral of wind and water. Land has ...

Turner paints smoky clouds and whirlwinds of paint. An orange sun glows through the storm at the top of the painting. A host of despairing figures are cowed by the forces of nature.

The splendid exhibition at the Getty Museum of the most famous 19th century British artist, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), was preceded by the release of Mr. Turner, the Oscar-nominated film by Mike Leigh ...

Timothy Spall says he often looks at his copy of “Snow Storm” by J.M.W. Turner, which hangs ... the London-based portrait artist and lecturer who gave Spall a two-year crash course in fine art ...

Turner's painting depicts this once-mighty gladiator of the seas being towed down a burnished River Thames by a ... In other Turner artworks, like Snow Storm – Steam-Boat (1842) and Rain ...

Lost and tucked away in a private collection for over 150 years, one of J.M.W. Turner's earliest oil paintings has been rediscovered.