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J. M. W. Turner

1775 - 1851

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His artistic style developed over his lifetime, moving away from Romanticism—bypassing the following rising style of Realism—and, instead, with his later works being a significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. M. W. Turner is the 65th most popular painter (down from 48th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 81st in 2019) and the most popular British Painter.

J. M. W. Turner is most famous for his paintings of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes. He was also a talented watercolorist and printmaker.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, J. M. W. Turner ranks 65 out of 2,023. Before him are Egon Schiele, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Diego Rivera, Kazimir Malevich, Jean-François Millet, and Piero della Francesca. After him are Andrea Mantegna, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Théodore Géricault, Francisco de Zurbarán, Ilya Repin, and Frans Hals.

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Among people born in 1775, J. M. W. Turner ranks 5. Before him are André-Marie Ampère, Jane Austen, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Bahadur Shah Zafar. After him are Ching Shih, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Matthew Lewis, and François-Adrien Boieldieu. Among people deceased in 1851, J. M. W. Turner ranks 5. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Marie Thérèse of France, Mary Shelley, and Louis Daguerre. After him are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Princess Augusta of Bavaria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. M. W. Turner ranks 148 out of 8,785. Before him are Rosalind Franklin (1920), Brian Josephson (1940), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), Nicholas Winton (1909), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), and William Ramsay (1852). After him are Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Alan Rickman (1946), Marianne Faithfull (1946), Thomas Andrews (1873), and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, J. M. W. Turner ranks 1. After him are Frederic Leighton (1830), William Hogarth (1697), John Constable (1776), John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), John Collier (1850), Edwin Landseer (1802), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), Louis Wain (1860), and William Holman Hunt (1827).

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