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Turner's father William Turner (1745–1829) moved to London around 1770 from South Molton, Devon. [5] Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on 23 April 1775 and baptised on 14 May. [b] He was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, in London, England. [6] His father was a barber and wig maker. [8]
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 Shipwreck is a landscape painting by J. M. W. Turner in the collection of the Tate. [1] [2] It was completed around 1805, when it was exhibited in Turner's own gallery.The painting is an important example of the sublime in British art.
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 Prince of Orange, William III, Embarked from Holland, and Landed at Torbay, November 4th, 1688, after a Stormy Passage is an 1832 marine history painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. [1] [2] It depicts an event from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when William III had landed at Brixham.
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet. War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet is an oil painting of 1842 by the English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Intended to be a companion piece to Turner's Peace - Burial at Sea, War is a painting that depicts a moment from Napoleon Bonaparte's exile at Saint Helena.
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino is a landscape by British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner completed in 1839. It is Turner's final painting of Rome and had been in the possession of the family of the 5th Earl of Rosebery since 1878, until the painting came to auction, 7 July 2010.
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