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About Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851)
"British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. Some of his works are cited as examples of abstract art prior to its recognition in the early twentieth century".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner
According to the [https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph...] web pages he did not marry. For a few years he had been close to Sarah Danby, the widow of a well-known musician. She bore two daughters, Evelina and Georgiana, who have been widely recognised as Turner’s, although a recent theory suggests that they were his father’s, and thus his half-sisters. Hannah Danby, niece of Sarah’s late husband, was Turner’s housekeeper at Queen Anne Street until his death.
From the early 1830s he was reclusive, especially during stays at Margate where he was looked after by his landlady and companion, Mrs Booth, whose husband John died in 1833. Often compared to a retired sailor he took to calling himself ‘Admiral Booth’. In London cabs were asked to drop him some distance from his home so as not to discover his identity or address.
In 1846 Turner moved with Mrs Booth and John Pound, her son by her first husband, to 6 Davis Place, on Cremorne New Road overlooking the Thames at Chelsea
References Tate Research pages Find a Grace
England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
- Name: Joseph Mallad William Turner
- Gender: Male
- Baptism Date: 14 May 1775
- Baptism Place: Saint Paul Covent Garden, Westminster, London,England
- Father: William Turner
- Mother: Mary
- FHL Film Number: 845241
Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Deaths Dec 1851
- Turner Joseph Mallard William Chelsea III
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Joseph Mallord William Turner's Timeline
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April 23, 1775
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21 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1851 |
December 19, 1851
Age 76
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Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
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London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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