![]() ![]() His mother, Mary Marshall, came from a family of butchers. ![]() His father William Turner 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. Turner's father William Turner (1745–1829) moved to London around 1770 from South Molton, Devon. The house in Maiden Lane where Turner was born, c.1850s Turner is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London. He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. In 1841, Turner rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as present at any property in that year's census. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father in 1829, when his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Evelina (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 travelled around 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. 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 15. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family and retained his working class accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. ![]()
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