Showcasing the Romantic artist's early innovations with oil paint, "The Rising Squall" could fetch up to $400,000. Before it ...

It is probably fair to say that among the first things you might think of in relation to Jane Austen would be a glamorous event, usually involving dancing, at a well-appointed English country house.

Fire, sea, storms: The art of J.M.W. Turner 20 photos. Our first impressions of people and things don't always hold up well. Consider how the British art world first reacted to the paintings of J ...

Such was the case with the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee’s “J.M.W. Turner: ... Today, the Turners in Nashville, like the rest of the world’s greatest artwork, hang unseen.

Why painter J.M.W. Turner matters so much By Steven Winn Updated June 21, 2015 10:38 a.m. In this image released by Sony Pictures Classics, Timothy Spall appears in a scene from "Mr. Turner." ...

J.M.W. Turner, “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On),” from 1840, “the most enduring of all abolitionist works of art. ...

But when it comes to J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851), more is to be rewarded, given his sublime idiosyncrasy and a way with color and mist that’s boundless.

Following a national nomination process for a visual artist to honor, the U.K. has announced the new face of the £20 bill. He's known for landscapes, seascapes and innovative depiction of light.

J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" depicts the callous cruelty of the slave trade. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Henry ...

All you ever wanted to know about Turner, from a “rollicking read” of a biography to a “picture book with a point”—selected by the Romantic period painting specialist David Blayney Brown ...