Turner selfportrait

Joseph Mallord William Turner

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  • Birth

    Joseph Turner is born

  • Entered the Royal Academy of Art schools

    He entered the Royal Academy of Art schools in 1789, when he was 14 years old, and was accepted into the academy a year later
  • Period: to

    Taught drawing from plaster casts of antique sculptures

    As a probationer in the academy, he was taught drawing from plaster casts of antique sculptures and his name appears in the registry of the academy over a hundred times
  • First oil painting

    First oil painting

    Turner exhibited his first oil painting at the academy in 1796

  • Visited Otley

    He was so attracted to Otley and the surrounding area that he returned to it throughout his career.
  • Ulysses deriding Polyphemus - Homer's Odyssey

    Ulysses deriding Polyphemus - Homer's Odyssey

  • Interior at Petworth

    Interior at Petworth

  • Peace - Burial at Sea

    Peace - Burial at Sea

  • Sunrise with Sea Monsters

    Sunrise with Sea Monsters

  • Dido building Carthage; or the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire

    Dido building Carthage; or the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire

  • Death

    Joseph Turner passed away