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J. M. W. Turner: Self portrait, oil on canvas, circa 1799
 
 
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Name: Joseph Mallord William Turner
Birth Date: April 23, 1775
Death Date: December 19, 1851
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter

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Biography of Joseph Mallord William Turner
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The English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was one of the greatest romantic interpreters of nature in the history of Western art and is still unrivaled in the virtuosity of his painting of light. The son of a barber, J. M. W. Turner...
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J. M. W. Turner was a "modern" painter that many art critics have considered at least fifty, if not one hundred, years ahead of his time. He was a romantic interpreter of nature and is still thought of as unrivaled in the virtuosity of his painting of...


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Joseph Mallord William Turner ( 23 April , 1775 (exact date disputed) - 19 December , 1851 ) was an English Romantic landscape artist, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism . Unsourced I know of no genius but the genius...


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Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775[1] – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a...


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World and I
Turner's Venice.(J.M.W. Turner)
04/01/2004: 2,138 words, approx. 7 pages
Scarlet Cheng, based in Los Angeles, is a contributing editor to the Arts section of The World & I. The first exhibition ever devoted to J.M.W. Turner's memorable evocations of Venice shows the artist going through a revolution in painting, even while...
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History Today
Turner and Shakespeare's Jessica. (J.M.W. Turner)
04/01/1994: 2,629 words, approx. 9 pages
Andrew Wilton discusses a picture that shows the great landscape painter in a role removed from his stereotype, and which tells us much about the changing mores and aspirations of 'Middlemarch' England. John Ruskin was fond of applying the epithet 'Shakespearean' to...
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Wallinger wins Britain's Turner Prize
12/3/2007: 252 words, approx. 1 pages
Artist Mark Wallinger won Britain's prestigious Turner Prize Monday for a fiercely anti-war exhibit based on a lone protester's six-year vigil outside British parliament."State Britain," which replicated the posters of peace protester Brian Haw, won Wallinger the $51,000 payout that comes with Britain's best-known and...
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Turner featured at Washington gallery
9/30/2007: 835 words, approx. 3 pages
Exhibits of J.M.W. Turner's work in recent years have shown snapshots of the famous British landscape painter's travels, styles and illustrations of history. Now the broad range of his six-decade career comes together in the largest Turner retrospective ever presented in the United States."J.M.W. Turner"...
 


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