Joseph Mallord William Turner

1787 – the first sketches and drawings, corroborating the tradition

Under Thomas Malton

1794 – engravings

1796 – oil paintings

The Influence

Cozens

the Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson

The Technique

a more poetic and imaginative approach to landscape

pursue to the end of his career with ever-Increasing brilliance

to be more inward & consciously distilled light – the means of diminishing the

reality

The Royal Academy

1799 - an associate

1802 – a full academician

…so fundamental as his love of the sea …

The Cornerstones:

waves and storms, upon clouds and vapour

a consequent thorough knowledge of wave forms

at heart a sailor

a ship is perceived as a living creature

The Shipwreck

The theme being acute…

a liking to natural phenomena a period of great English shipping make trade possible to portray the power of the

elements and how no one is immune from the dangers of an angry sea

William Falconer

(shipwreck survivor of the

Britannia)

From Turner's

Notebook

Critics…