School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk

Display artist/maker:

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Born: 1775, UK, England, London   Died: 1851, Chelsea

Painter. Son of a barber. Studied at the Royal Academy, 1789-93, and attended classes run by the topographical artist Thomas Malton (1748-1804). He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790 and became the youngest ever full Academician in 1802. He toured England and Wales in the 1790s, Paris and Switzerland in 1802 and Italy during the 1830s. In 1807 he was appointed Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy and Deputy Professor in 1845. He painted topographical watercolours, mythological subjects in Claudean landscapes and, most famously, light-filled, semi-abstract land and seascapes which were championed by John Ruskin and widely regarded as a precursor to Impressionism

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Aesacus and Hesperié PR316 Prints

Aesacus and Hesperié PR317 Prints

Apollo Killing the Python PR5023 Prints

Bacchus and Ariadne PR5021 Prints

Caligula's Palace and Bridge, Bay of Baiae PR5016 Prints

Dido Building Carthage PR5020 Prints

Dover PR311 Prints

Lago Maggiore PR314 Prints

Lake Albano PR315 Prints

Margate PR312 Prints

Plymouth PR310 Prints

Rain, Steam and Speed PR5024 Prints

Scarborough PR313 Prints

Folly Bridge, Oxford WD391 WaterColourOrDrawings

Westminster Bridge WD392 WaterColourOrDrawings



 
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