Joseph Mallord William Turner

Standard Name: Turner, Joseph Mallord William

Used Form: J. M. W. Turner

Connections

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Friends, Associates	Maria Callcott	In Rome they got to know the painter Charles Eastlake , and through him other artists, such as John Jackson and J. W. M. Turner . MC 's developing interest in the pre-Renaissance art of...
Friends, Associates	Mary Augusta Ward	During this time MAW led a full social life: she and her husband held up to three dinner parties a week during the London season, and her Thursday afternoon salon became immensely popular with the...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Rigby	In London, she met theCarlyles and John Gibson Lockhart 's daughter Charlotte . She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake . She called on Agnes Strickland and Maria Edgeworth . Lord Shaftesbury
Friends, Associates	Amelia Opie	She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb , Lady Cork , and painters James Northcote and Sir Joshua Reynolds . Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxvii In 1802, in London and...
Leisure and Society	Mary Elizabeth Coleridge	She remained deeply interested in art (she frequented galleries and developed a deep appreciation for Blake , Turner , and the more contemporary Renoir , and Monet ). She also regularly attended the theatre. Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, 1910, pp. 1 - 44; various pages. 33 Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. Editor Sichel, Edith, Constable, –Apr. 1910. 245, 252-56
Occupation	John Ruskin	Having begun to publish in the 1830s, when he became a champion of J. W. Turner against established styles of painting, JR made his name and created a sensation with the appearance of the first...
Publishing	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM advised an artist named George Baxter on scenes to engrave as woodcuts for a Whittaker edition of Our Village, probably 1835. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 157 Further complete editions, selections, and translations into many languages followed...
Publishing	Marie Corelli	MC published The Devil's Motor, a novel with illustrations supplied by artist Arthur Severn , whom she thought of as a second Turner. Kowalczyk, Richard L. “Marie Corelli and Arthur Severn’s Reputation as an Artist”. Modern Philology, Vol. 66 , 1969, pp. 322-7. 322 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 456 (6 October 1910): 367
Reception	Elizabeth Jennings	Nicholas Lezard used this collection as an opportunity to celebrate Jennings's many registers and many modes. These, he notes, run from the deceptively simple, Wendy-Cope -like account of a child's disappointment that Piccadilly Circus had...
Textual Features	Rosamund Marriott Watson	Another poem here, The Quern of the Giants, reworks the Icelandic legend of Fenia and Menia, two giant sisters forced into turning millstones for King Frodi. Their endless work greatly benefits their captor until...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Elizabeth Jennings	She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert , Charles Causley , Philip Larkin , J. M. W. Turner , Caravaggio , Chardin , Goya , Hume , and Descartes . A sequence...

Timeline

19 December 1851

English landscape painter Joseph Turner died.

Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.

32-4

Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.

475

Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.

275

1857

The Department of Practical Art constructed a facility on eighty-seven acres of land in South Kensington.

Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.

10: 270

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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