From 1792 he made the first of the sketching tours he is now famous for. In the mid-1790s he worked with Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) at the house of Dr Thomas Munro (1759-1833), a London physician and amateur draughtsman who patronized many artists. Up until the mid-1790s, Turner worked exclusively with watercolour; in 1796 or 97 he exhibited his first oil paintings at the RA. The influence on his early works was Dutch 17th-century marine painting, the work of Richard Wilson (c.1713-2), Gellee Claude (1600-82) and Gaspard Poussin (1615-75).

His work polarized society. Some saw it as unfinished and attacked it forcibly while others strongly defended it. The outcome was that hs work fell out of fashion and there was a decline in sales of his larger oil-paintings. To counter this, Turner published a series of engravings of different types of landscapes entitled Liber Studiorum. Again, this wasn't successful.

He made his frst visit to Italy in 1819, returning in 1828, 1835, and in 1840. It was from his first visit that he started to use the pale brilliance of colour in his oil-paintings that he had already used in his watercolours.

By now, he was seriously out of favour. Public interest was pointed in the direction of the Pre-Raphaelites. That changed when the most influential art critic of 19th-century England, John Ruskin (1819-1900), defended his work.

Trivia:

• Turner was always tight with his money and part of the reason for his unsuccessful engraving series, Liber Studiorum, was that he underpaid the engravers
• He left nearly 300 paintings and nearly 20,000 watercolours and drawings to the nation
• He had a mistress, Sarah Danby, by whom he had two daughters. He never married
• His mother, Mary Marshall, died in 1804 after being committed to a mntal asylum
• His father ended up as Turner' assistant. He died in 1829
• Suffered from bouts of depression

Collections:

• London (Turner Collection, Clore Gallery, Tate)

• London (NG, British Museum, Courtauld Inst., V & A, Nat. Marit. Mus.)

• Auckland, New Zealand
• Boston (Mus.)
• Cambridge (Fitzwm)
• Cambridge Mass. (Fogg Mus.)
• Cardiff
• Chicago
• Cleveland Ohio
• Dublin
• Dunedin
• Edinburgh (NG)
• Hartford Conn. (Wadsworth Atheneum)
• Indianapolis (Herron)
• Manchester (City Art Gall., and Whitworth)
• Melbourne
• New York (Met. Mus., Frick Coll.)
• Ohio
• Ottawa (NG)
• Oxford
• Philadelphia
• Sheffield
• Washington (NG, Corcoran)

//Gallery//

joseph mallord william turner canvas prints @ ebay.com (direct link to canvas prints) - just checked and a bigger selection than I have seen anywhere else

//Prints//

AGRIPPINA LANDING WITH THE ASHES OF GEMANICUS LARGE CANVAS PRINT

THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR LARGE CANVAS PRINT

THE BURNING OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT LARGE CANVAS PRINT

CALAIS PIER, AN ENGLISH PACKET ARRIVING LARGE CANVAS PRINT

CAMPO SANTO, VENICE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

THE CHAPTER HOUSE, SALISBURY CATHEDRAL LARGE CANVAS PRINT

CONWAY CASTLE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

DIDO BUILDING CARTHAGE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

DOGANA AND SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE, VENICE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

DORCHESTER MEAD, OXFORDSHIRE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

DOVER CASTLE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

DUTCH BOATS IN A GALE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

FIRST RATE, TAKING IN STORES LARGE CANVAS PRINT

FOLKESTONE FROM THE SEA LARGE CANVAS PRINT

FROSTY MORNING LARGE CANVAS PRINT

GIUDECCA CANAL, VENICE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

INTERIOR OF FOUNTAINS ABBEY, YORKSHIRE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

KEELMEN HEAVING IN COALS BY NIGHT LARGE CANVAS PRINT

NORHAM CASTLE, ON THE RIVER TWEED LARGE CANVAS PRINT

ODYSSEUS DERIDING POLYPHEMUS LARGE CANVAS PRINT

PASSAGE OF MOUNT CENIS LARGE CANVAS PRINT

PEACE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

PORTSMOUTH LARGE CANVAS PRINT

RAIN, STEAM AND SPEED - THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY LARGE CANVAS PRINT

RAINBOW LARGE CANVAS PRINT

REGATTA EAST COWES LARGE CANVAS PRINT

SELF-PORTRAIT LARGE CANVAS PRINT

THE SHIPWRECK LARGE CANVAS PRINT

THE SLAVE SHIP LARGE CANVAS PRINT

THE STORM LARGE CANVAS PRINT

SUN RISING THROUGH VAPOUR, FISHERMEN CLEANING & SELLING FISH LARGE CANVAS PRINT

TRANSEPT OF EWENNY PRIORY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

WELSH BRIDGE AT SHREWSBURY LARGE CANVAS PRINT

WEYMOUTH, DORSET LARGE CANVAS PRINT

WHITBY LARGE CANVAS PRINT

WINDSOR CASTLE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

WOLVERHAMPTON, STAFFORDSHIRE LARGE CANVAS PRINT

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