Joseph Mallord William Turner, 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. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. 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.
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, c. 1799
Caerlaverock Castle (c. 1832), Aberdeen Archives Gallery and Museums
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino, 1839
Fishermen at Sea, exhibited in 1796, the first oil painting exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy
Watercolor or watercolour, also aquarelle, is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork. Aquarelles painted with water-soluble colored ink instead of modern water colors are called aquarellum atramento by experts. However, this term has now tended to pass out of use.
An artist working on a watercolor using a round brush
Love's Messenger, an 1885 watercolor and tempera by Marie Spartali Stillman
Albrecht Dürer, Young Hare, 1502, watercolor and body color, Albertina, Vienna
Thomas Girtin, Jedburgh Abbey from the River, 1798–99, watercolor on paper
