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12 unusual facts about J. M. W. Turner


Castello Borgia

In 1819, the castle was the subject of a sketch by the travelling J. M. W. Turner.

David Dabydeen

A further collection, Turner: New and Selected Poems, was published in 1994, and reissued in 2002; the title-poem, Turner is an extended sequence or verse novel responding to a painting by J. M. W. Turner, "Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on" (1840).

Dunstanburgh Castle

Turner painted Dunstanburgh many times, usually rising at dawn to do so.

Julius Hatofsky

The greatest influence on the work of his maturity was that of the Old Masters—among them Tintoretto, Turner, Blake, Goya, Ryder and Delacroix.

Norham

J. M. W. Turner always tipped his hat to Norham Castle, as it was the place which brought him fame as an artist.

Painter of Light

J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), a British landscape artist commonly known as 'The Painter of Light'

Richard Payne Knight

Knight makes much of the need to fragment an image into tonal and colouristic ‘masses’, a view that has been claimed to anticipate the late work of Turner, or even Impressionism.

Santa Maria della Salute

The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venice skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent and Francesco Guardi.

The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venetian skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, Francesco Guardi, and Laza Kostić.

St George's Day in England

The 23 April is also the anniversary of the birth of the artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), the death of the Romantic poets William Wordsworth (1770–1850) and Rupert Brooke (1887–1915).

Takeuchi Seihō

After returning to Japan he established a unique style, combining the realist techniques of the traditional Japanese Maruyama–Shijo school with Western forms of realism borrowed from the techniques of Turner and Corot.

The Golden Bough

This thesis was developed in relation to J. M. W. Turner's painting of The Golden Bough, a sacred grove where a certain tree grew day and night.


19th-century French art

Impressionism would take the Barbizon school one further, rejecting once and for all a belabored style (and the use of mixed colors and black), for fragile transitive effects of light as captured outdoors in changing light (in part inspired by the paintings of J. M. W. Turner).

Admiral Turner

Richmond K. Turner (1885 – 1961) served in the United States Navy during World War II

Billy Morrow Jackson

The Luminists tended to depict landscape scenes (in the tradition of John Constable and Joseph M. W. Turner) with a romantic sensibility, much like Jackson was doing.

Carreg Cennen Castle

Ownership of the castle passed to the Vaughan and Cawdor families, and from the 18th century it started to attract artists (Turner sketched the castle in 1798).

Chris Turner

Christopher J. Turner (born 1933), former Governor of the Turks and Caicos and of Montserrat

Day G. Turner

On that day, in Dahl, Luxembourg, Turner led his squad in the defense of a house against an intense German attack.

Donald F. Turner

He headed Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice under Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Fleury Linossier

Specialized press praised him as one the best landscape water color artist of his time and compared him to J. M. W. Turner and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Frederick W. Turner

He has published a revised and annotated edition of Geronimo's 1906 autobiography.

When the Boys Came Back: Baseball and 1946 (1996) focused on the season when Americans such as Joe DiMaggio returned from World War II to the baseball fields; Kirkus said it "could be livelier" but was still of interest.

Harlech Castle

In the late-18th and 19th centuries, the picturesque ruins of Harlech began to attract visits from prominent artists, including John Cotman, Henry Gastineau, Paul Sandby, J. M. W. Turner and John Varley.

Harry Turner

Harry E. Turner (1927–2004), member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Indiana University School of Dentistry

For example, alumna Carol I. Turner (DDS’75) was appointed chief of the U.S. Navy Dental Corps in 2003, becoming the first woman to hold the Navy’s top position in dentistry; Ronald Zentz (DDS’85) is senior director of the American Dental Association’s Council on Scientific Affairs; and Stephen Ralls (M’81 Periodontics) is executive director of the American College of Dentists.

John Pye

In 1805 Pye was entrusted by Heath with the execution of a plate of Inveraray Castle from a drawing by J. M. W. Turner.

Jonathan D. C. Turner

Turner was born on 13 May 1958 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England, and educated at Rugby School, Cambridge University (1979 BA, 1982 MA), the Université libre de Bruxelles (1981 Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen) and Queen Mary College, London (1982).

Joseph Gandy

His architectural fantasies owe a clear debt to Piranesi and play upon historical, literary and mythological themes with a feeling for the sublime that is the equal of his contemporaries J. M. W. Turner and John Martin.

Laurence Iannaccone

David Lehman, Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion, chapter 8 in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, John Wiley and Sons, 2010, ISBN 1-4051-8852-9

Leeds Art Collections Fund

The works bought by the LACF for display in Leeds are too numerous to mention in full, but they include works by such well-known names as Thomas Chippendale, J.M.W. Turner, John Sell Cotman, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Stass Paraskos, Francis Bacon, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin.

Lubbock High School

Morris W. Turner, Class of 1950 (1931–2008), businessman; mayor of Lubbock, 1972–1974

Malcolm F. Marsh

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner.

Morris W. Turner

He worked to insure the success of the since-named Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, the Canyon Lakes project, and the George and Helen Mahon Public Library, named for former U.S. Representative George Mahon of Lubbock.

He was hence part of the council, along with Mayor Jim Granberry, charged with the rebuilding of Lubbock after the widespread destruction caused by the storm.

Neoplatonism

The Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Porphyry has been referred to as in fact being orthodox Platonic philosophy by scholars like John D. Turner.

Neoplatonism and Gnosticism

A more precise term for the group, suggested by the scholar John D. Turner, is orthodox (neo) Platonism.

Parrish Avenue Bridge

The previous bridge in this location, built in 1906, was designed by C.A.P. Turner's engineering firm.

Ramsay Richard Reinagle

Reinagle wrote the scientific and explanatory notices to Turner's Views in Sussex published in 1819, and the life of Allan Ramsay in Allan Cunningham's Lives of the British Painters.

Ron Turner

Ronald L. Turner, chairman and chief executive officer of Ceridian Corporation

Ronald L. Turner

Prior to joining Ceridian in 1993, Turner served as President and CEO of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems, a defense electronics company, from 1987 to 1993.

Samuel William Reynolds

He also engraved a great number of portraits and compositions by Dance, Jackson, William Owen (1769–1825), Stephanoff, Bonington, Sir Robert Ker Porter, and others, and was one of the artists employed by Turner on his Liber Studiorum.

Smith S. Turner

He was reelected to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from January 30, 1894, to March 3, 1897.

The Bo-Keys

Keyboardist Archie "Hubie" Turner is also a member of the Hi Rhythm Section and former session player at Willie Mitchell's Royal Studio.

The Hay Wain

The Hay Wain was voted the second most popular painting in any British gallery, second only to Turner's Fighting Temeraire, in a 2005 poll organised by BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The Monk by the Sea

--begin substantial copy from CDF article:-->In his 1961 article "The Abstract Sublime", the art historian Robert Rosenblum drew comparisons between the Romantic landscape paintings of both Friedrich and Turner with the Abstract Expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko.

Walter J. Turner

Born in South Melbourne, the son of a church musician – organist at St Paul's Cathedral – and a warehouseman, Walter James Turner, and a woman of long golden hair, Alice May (née Watson), he was educated at Carlton State School, Scotch College and the Working Men's College.

Wartling

H.J.C. Turner, born in Wartling in 1850, the son of the curate, he played in the first rugby international in 1871.

Whitworth Art Gallery

The gallery focuses on modern artists, and the art collections include works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ford Madox Brown, Eduardo Paolozzi, Francis Bacon, William Blake, David Hockney, L. S. Lowry, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, and a fine collection of works by J.M.W. Turner.

William H. Turner, Jr.

At the age of 26, Turner went into business on his own as a trainer and found early success with the Thoroughbred racehorse Salerno, who won the Remsen Stakes in 1967.