Joseph Mallord William Turner презентация

English Romantic landscape painter, water colourist.


Self portrait, oil on canvas, 1799

colour landscape painting.








'Ivy Bridge' painted by J. M. W. Turner in 1813

Arundel Castel,
with Rainbow,
1824











He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.

father, William Turner (1738–7 August 1829), was a barber and wig maker.






London Bridge

to stay with his uncle, in Brentford, which was then a small town west of London on the banks of the River Thames.

Eruption of
Vesuvius, 1817

A year later he attended a school in Margate on the north-east Kent coast. By this time he had created many drawings, which his father exhibited in his shop window.

Keyes Mill,
Pembury 1796

he was only 14 years old, and was accepted into the academy a year later.
Fonthill Abbey from the South West, 1799

of 1790 after only one year's study. Transept of Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire by J. M. W. Turner, 1797

and thereafter exhibited at the academy nearly every year for the rest of his life.

Fishermen at Sea,
1796

1802 and studying in the Louvre in Paris in the same year. He also made many visits to Italy, Switzerland, Germany.







Orvieto 1828-1829

close friends except for his father, who lived with him for thirty years, eventually working as his studio assistant.







Chain Pier, Brighton, 1828

to have uttered the last words "The sun is God" before expiring. At his request he was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, where he lies next to Sir Joshua Reynolds. His last exhibition at the Royal Academy was in 1850.

he lies next to Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great English painter and his teacher. His last exhibition at the Royal Academy was in 1850.






Mortlake Terrace, 1827

was recognised as an artistic genius.

phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea.