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One of the greatest Romantic painters, he captured the grandeur of nature on canvas as magnificently as the power of machines ...
Cold moonlight, golden sunset and shimmering waters are only three reasons to love Turner. On the 250th anniversary of his ...
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 ...
Speculation on the crossing place stretches back more than ... QUEEN’S DUNG BOFFINS GET TO BOTTOM OF HANNIBAL ALPS RIDDLE IN PIECE OF 2000-YEAR-OLD POO. (“Boffin,” Allen kindly explains ...
As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated painting, The Fighting Temeraire. JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire ...
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 ...
Wednesday 23 April was the 250th anniversary of the birth of JMW Turner, one of the greatest British artists. A host of exhibitions and events are marking this moment, and we speak to Amy ...
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 ...