It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured ...

I still remember in my art history class when my professor showed us J.M.W. Turner’s “The Slave Ship.” The painting is a brilliant array of colors and teeters on the edge of abstract, but the longer ...

As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise ... in return – an onslaught that lacerated the ship and spattered her decks with blood.

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April ... He is known for the works The Fighting Temeraire, The Slave ...

The legacy of English romantic painter JMW Turner will ... artist award, the Turner Prize, was named after him. He is known for the works The Fighting Temeraire, The Slave Ship, The Battle Of ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest ... smoke streaming from the perilously listing ship, and surging sea captured in a spiralling vortex of ...