![]() ![]() A younger sister, Mary Ann, was born in September 1778 but died in August 1783. His mother, Mary Marshall, came from a family of butchers. His father, William Turner (1745–21 September 1829), was a barber and wig maker. He was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, in London, England. ![]() Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on 23 April 1775 and baptised on 14 May. He had been championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting. He left behind over 2,000 paintings and 19,000 drawings and sketches. Turner is buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral, London. He lived in near poverty circumstances and in poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged seventy-six. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father, after which his outlook deteriorated, and his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Eveline (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843), by his housekeeper Sarah Danby. Intensely private, eccentric and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He traveled to Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks. He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became professor of perspective at the Academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828, although he was viewed as profoundly inarticulate. He earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which due to his troubled, contrary nature, were often begrudgingly accepted. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 21. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower middle-class family. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known as J. ![]()
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