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content: BiographyJoseph Mallord William “J. M. W.” Turner (14May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was a BritishRomantic landscape painter, water-colourist, andprintmaker. He was baptised on 14 May 1775,but his date of birth is unknown. It is generallybelieved he was born between late April and earlyMay. He was born in Maiden Lane, CoventGarden, London, England. His father, WilliamTurner, was a barber and wig maker. His mother,Mary Marshall, came from a family of butchers.A younger sister, Mary Ann, was born inSeptember 1778 but died aged four in August 1783.In 1785, as a result of a "fit of illness" in the family the young Turner was sent to stay with his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, in Brentford. There he first showed interest in the visual arts. He entered the Royal Academy of Art in 1789, when he was 14 years old, and was accepted into the academy a year later.

content: Biography Sir Joshua Reynolds, president of the Royal Academy, chaired the panel thatadmitted him. At first Turner showed a keen interest in architecture but wasadvised to continue painting by the architect Thomas Hardwick. His first water-colour painting 'A View of the Archbishop's Palace', Lambeth was accepted forthe Royal Academy summer exhibition of 1790 when Turner was 15.

content: BiographyTurner exhibited his first oil painting at the academy in 1796, 'Fishermen at Sea'.Wilton said that the image: “Is a summary of all that had been said about the sea bythe artists of the eighteenth century” and shows strong influence by artists suchas Horace Vernet, Philip James de Loutherbourg, Peter Monamy and FrancisSwaine, who was admired for his moonlight marine paintings.

content: Turner travelled widely in Europe, starting with France and Switzerland in 1802and studying in the Louvre in Paris in the same year. Also he made many visits toVenice. His first trip in Europe Turner made ​​in 1791. After that, he had been theremany times and painted many beautiful pictures like ‘Canal Venecia' or ‘SnowStorm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps'.Biography

content: Important support for Turner's work came from Walter Ramsden Fawkes,of Farnley Hall, near Otley in Yorkshire, who became a close friend of theartist. Turner first visited Otley in 1797, aged 22, when commissioned topaint watercolours of the area. There, in Yorkshire, the artist drew a lot of greatnew pictures such as ‘Grouse Shooting on Beamsley Beacon' and ‘Rainbow'.Biography

content: Turner died in the house of his mistress Sophia Caroline Booth in CheyneWalk in Chelsea on 19 December 1851.At his request he was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, where he lies next to SirJoshua Reynolds. His last exhibition at the Royal Academy was in 1850. Turnerleft behind a lot of remarkable works, which people admire today.BiographyNorham Castle, Sunrise.

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