British1775–1851
Joseph Mallord William Turner
An English painter of light, weather and the sea, who entered the Royal Academy as a teenager. His late paintings dissolve sea and landscape into light and colour.
A life in paintings
- 1775Born
- 1829Influenced Thomas ColeLondon
On his first trip to England, from 1829, Cole visited Turner's studio. He admired the painter but was puzzled by the man, who looked nothing like his idea of an artist of international fame. The National Gallery counts Turner, with Constable, among the painters who influenced Cole most.
Source: National Gallery - 1839Photography is announced
Daguerre’s process is made public in Paris. Painting no longer has to be the only way to record how things look.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1851Died
Monet spent 1870 and 1871 in London, away from the Franco-Prussian War, and saw Turner's paintings there. The Musée d'Orsay traces Turner's effects of light and mist through Monet's later work.
The two poles of British landscape and direct Royal Academy rivals. Turner was an Academician at 27 (1802); Constable only got in in 1829, by one vote. The 1831-32 exhibitions saw open one-upmanship over hanging and last-minute retouching.