Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles William Turner of Oxford‏ was a British 19th Century artist who was born in 1789.

Joseph Mallord William Turner created staggeringly luminous paintings – mythological, historical and natural landscapes gleaming with sunlight or misty with fog or locomotive steam. An exhibition of ...

Were you to consult the National Gallery in London, you would learn that J. M. W. Turner - known as William Turner - is, quote, "perhaps the best-loved English romantic artist." He is something of a ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s Mouth, on ...

From Remainers to Reform UK voters, from Mike Leigh to the Bank of England's note-makers, everyone seems to agree that Joseph Mallord William Turner "was our greatest artist", said Jonathan Jones in ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half a ...