Joseph Mallord William Turner
(Covent Garden, London, 23
April
1775
[1]
– Chelsea,
London,
19
December
1851)
was
an English painterand artist.
He
was
one
of
the
greatest
artists
of landscape painting, with a great mastery of light and colour.
[2]
His father was a maker of wigs. His mother was ill with mental problems, and
the young Turner was sent to live with his uncle in Brentford, where he first
started to paint.
Turner became a student at the Royal Academy of Art school in
London when he was 14 years old. He was accepted into the Academy a year
later. He had a watercolour painting in 1790 in the Academy's important art
show. He had only been studying for a year. In 1802, at the age of only 28, he
was elected a member of the Royal Academy, and later became its Professor
of Perspective.
In
1802,
Turner
travelled
around Europe,
visiting France and Switzerland. He also went to the Louvre in Paris. During
his life, he
often travelled across Europe, visiting Venice in Italy several
times. As his personal style developed, he began to produce paintings that
were generalised or exaggerated in
form and colour, rather than realistic or
detailed. These caused much argument as to their artistic value, but nowadays
are his best loved works. On his death, he left 300 oils and 20,000
watercolours to the British nation. Some of his watercolours are the most
abstract or generalised of his paintings.
Turner never married, although he had two children with his mistress
Sarah Danby. For much of
his life, he lived with his father, who helped him in
his studio until he died in 1829.
In his early career, Turner was influenced by the painters Claude
Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, who painted "historical" landscapes.
Turner became interested
in natural catastrophes, and natural
phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the
191
violent power of the sea. His paintings revolve
around the light of the sun,
shown in infinite variety. His work showed some of the ideas of
the impressionists decades before they arrived on the scene. Monet, in
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