British painter J.M.W. Turner was both prolific and peripatetic, producing more than 30,000 watercolors during a lifetime in which he traveled throughout Europe. But these works are extremely ...
The largest collection of watercolors by the British artist J.M.W. Turner opened at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut on Saturday. Nicholas Bell, senior vice president of curatorial affairs at ...
A historical museum might seem an unlikely place for an exhibit by one of the world’s foremost Romantic painters, but 97 watercolors by J.M.W. Turner are on the walls at Mystic Seaport, the only North ...
MYSTIC, Conn. — There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who like Joseph Mallord William Turner, and those who like him a lot. I say this because I don’t know how it’s possible to not at ...
The Vanderbilt family is selling a J.M.W. Turner masterpiece that was considered “one of the finest watercolour-drawings in the world.” “Bamborough Castle” — which was believed by many in the art ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A watercolor by British artist JMW Turner not seen in public for more than a century and listed as lost has been bought by an American collector for 2.9 million pounds ($5.9 million ...
In an 1816 essay,William Hazlitt passed along this observation about England’s greatest painter: “Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.” Joseph Mallord ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A watercolor by British master artist JMW Turner not seen in public for more than a century and listed as lost goes on sale next week with a price tag in excess of 1.5 million ...
A long-forgotten sketch by JMW Turner has been discovered in the attic of Kinsham Court, a privately-owned country estate in rural England. The watercolor, which was likely completed in 1796 when the ...
Joseph Mallord William Turner ranks among Britain's most famous artists, celebrated today for landscapes that rankled his 19th-century contemporaries with their unbridled light and color. His radical ...