Self Portrait, ca “ A t m o s p h e r e i s m y s t y l e ” " I f I c o u l d f i n d a n y t h i n g b l a c k e r t h a n b l a c k, I ' d u s e i t. " J.M.W. Turner

Biography Talented painter from a young age Exhibited paintings as early as age 13 Received little formal schooling Went to the Royal Academy art school at age 14 Full member at 27 Fishermen at Sea, exhibited 1796

S’more Good Stuff Brought respect to the “landscape painting” Considered the greatest landscape painter of his time Died rich $$$ The Shipwreck, exhibited 1805

Influences Architectural views Nicolas Poussin Claude Lorrain –Baroque era Salvator Rosa –Italian Baroque painter –SUBLIME effects The French Rev. ( ) The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory, exhibited 1806

The Sublime Def: “impressing the mind with a sense of power; inspiring awe, veneration” Magnificence and splendor of nature Nature’s power over man Overwhelming feelings/emotion (J.M.W. Turner) Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, exhibited 1812 “The strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.” – Edmund Burke

Style Contrast between colors Paintings had an “indistinctness” Expressive brushwork “explosions of color” (J.M.W. Turner) Indistinct figures – almost abstract in some cases The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire, exhibited 1817

The Field of Waterloo, exhibited 1818 Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus–Homer’s Odyssey, exhibited 1829 Peace - Burial at Sea, exhibited 1842 Rain, Steam and Speed, exhibited 1844

Travels Made many visits to Wales –Wye Valley –Tintern Abbey Visited Switzerland –Looked for wild landscapes Visited Italy for the first time in 1819 The Grand Canal, Venice, exhibited 1835

Regulus, exhibited 1828, reworked and exhibited 1837

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 th October, 1834, exhibited 1835

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, exhibited 1835 One critic wrote of these two paintings as “a splendid impossibility.“ (Warrell) Turner painted both pictures with the fire blowing over the Thames river. In reality, the flames blew in the other direction towards Westminster Abbey. ( Warrell )

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 th October, 1834, exhibited 1835

Norham Castle, Sunrise, ca. 1798

Norham Castle, on the River Tweed, ca

Norham Castle, Sunrise, ca Some critics described Turner’s later works as " the fruits of a diseased eye and reckless hand." "Turner in his latest development, more than any other artist who had gone before him, painted not so much the objects he saw as the light which played around them." (Warrell)

Norham Castle, Sunrise, ca. 1845