JMW Turner

Born and bred Londoner Turner exhibited this work in 1809. Past the green pastoral scene of Greenwich park and Queen’s House you can see the smokey outline of St Paul’s Cathedral and London churches.

• Artist JMW Turner
• Artwork London from Greenwich Park exhibited 1809
• Image size 90 x 120 cm
• Date of work 1809
• Credit Oil paint on canvas 90 x 120 cm

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London; he remained a Londoner and kept a Cockney accent all his life despite dominating British landscape painting throughout the first half of the 19th century. He established a reputation in the Royal Academy, first as a topographical watercolourist and then within a few years as a painter of sublime and historical landscapes. From the mid-1790s he settled on the routine he maintained for much of his life: touring in summer and working in the studio in the winter months. He opened his own gallery and had many patrons and admirers as well as detractors. After his death a large body of his works in oil and watercolour was given to the British nation, with many on show at Tate Britain.

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