Artist J.M.W.Turner 1775 - 1851. Perhaps the best-loved English Romantic landscape artist. He became known as 'the painter of light'. Art history in the making for all modern art can be said to derive from Romanticism, by artist painter Douglas Carpenter.

Turner in Venice

Marine Paintings 

Tour of Switzerland

Varnishing Day 

English landscape artist J.M.W.Turner, a Londoner born and bred, went to the Royal Academy School of art when he was only 15 years old. One year later his picture was accepted in the Summer Exhibition of 1790. Elected an Associate of the Academy, which was very supportive of his free art style that evolved after his study of the Classic artist movement of old Master painters. Turner studied the science of light and colour, the theory in particular that yellow was closest colour to the production of white light in painting. Amongst his contemporaries he was a unique artist, both in freeing himself from all past artist traditions and art movements. He was to open the way for a visionary anticipation of modern painting.

Battle of Trafalgar

Carthaginian Empire

Rain, Steam, Speed

Snow Storm

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