This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that created the ...

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 ...

Tickets for the Walker Art Gallery’s major exhibition exploring the work of JMW Turner and his enduring impact on later generations are on sale from today – exactly 250 years since the artist ...

Who was better, JMW Turner or John Constable? A daft question, surely, or so I thought. In my recent book on British art, I avoided choosing. Two greats, too different. But when The Times asked me ...

There are currently 10 exhibitions showcasing the works of Joseph Mallord William Turner in various locations around the world, including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio (USA), Madrid ...

towers over us in Jacques-Louis David’s colossal canvas “Napoleon Crossing the Alps.” For those who have already googled the painting, you know that Napoleon made the crossing on a beautiful ...

We can’t seem to keep away from the River Thames. Though a current of contradictions, it offers so much— even around the bend in the Channel is Keir Starmer in a slickly branded naval fleece ...

A former army officer who will row solo around the UK for 2,000 miles is one of our best local stories of the week. Gloucestershire Live reported how ex-Parachute Regiment member Mike Ellicock, 49, ...

Harewood House in West Yorkshire have opened a new exhibition today imagining an encounter between Jane Austen and JMW Turner (imagine that). According to their website: For the very first time, the ...