J M W Turner is undoubtedly one of the most influential and celebrated British artists to have ever lived. Eccentric and controversial, he was highly successful in his own lifetime, achieving considerable wealth, fame and critical acclaim. A prolific painter, watercolourist, etcher and printmaker, on his death he bequeathed over 19,000 paintings and drawings to the nation. Variously described as a founder of Impressionism and a forerunner of modernist abstraction, J M W Turner elevated landscape painting to pre-eminence through expressionistic studies of light, colour, and atmosphere that were unmatched in their range and sublimity.
Recommended Further Reading:
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London: Academy Editions, 1979
Andrew Wilton, Turner in his Time, London: Thames & Hudson, 1987
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