It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured paintings have never been surpassed, says Mark Hudson.

“J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality” opened on March 29, as part of the YCBA’s opening after renovation closures. On Saturday, the Yale Center for British Art unveiled a new exhibit dedicated to the ...

A painting newly revealed to be by J. M. W. Turner has surfaced in a private Austrian collection and is now up for sale at a Viennese gallery for €38 million ($41 million). A version of Venice, Seen ...

The painting turned out to be a watercolor by the English artist J.M.W. Turner. Born in 1775, Turner is “perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist,” as London’s National Gallery writes.

The renowned English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner is celebrated as “the painter of light” for the masterly ways he depicted sunlight in his landscapes and seascapes. “The play of light is integral ...