J.M.W. Turner, in full Joseph Mallord William Turner, (born April 23, 1775, London, England died December 19, 1851, London), English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, colour, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity. Turner was the son of a barber. At age 10 he was sent to live with an uncle at Brentford, Middlesex, where he attended school. Several drawings dated as early as 1787 are sufficiently professional to corroborate the tradition that his father sold the boy’s work to his customers. Turner entered the Royal Academy schools in 1789 and soon began exhibiting his watercolours
The former home of renowned artist JMW Turner has gone on sale for £11m. The historic property is on London s Cheyne Walk in Chelsea by the River Thames.
According to his first biographer, Walter Thornbury, Turner had four illegitimate children, at least one of whom was a boy. He provides no evidence for this, except for this piece of hearsay. “‘I once,’ says a friend, ‘heard Mr Crabb Robinson (the friend of Wordsworth) casually mention a remark dropped.