William Turner

was born on the 23rd April, 1775 in London and was educated in the royal academy of arts.

William Turner travelled far back in his career. In 1807 William Turner became a professor of the perspective in the royal academy of arts. The early pictures of William Turner were primarily watercolors and his subjects mainly sceneries. In the end of the 1790s he had started exhibiting his first oil paintings. His ripe work falls in three periods:

The first period (1800-20): William Turner painted mythological and historical scenes in which the colours were damped and details and contours were stressed.

The second period (1820-35): Brilliantere colours and the dispersion of the light. During this period he also explained several illustrations for topografische books and a collection of the watercolors by which showed Venetian scenes.

The third period (1835-45): The artistic genius of William Turner reached his climax. William Turner reached a vibrating sense of the strength, while he presented objects as indistinct masses within a glowing smoke of the colour. Some of the shown forces are the strength of the sea and the rhythm of the rain.

William Turner died in London on the 19th December, 1851.