Turner, Joseph Mallord William

Cultural  

1. An English romantic painter (see romanticism) of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, known especially for his dramatic, lavishly colored landscapes and seascapes.

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Example Sentences

Turner, Joseph Mallord William, youth of, i, 124; apprenticeship of, i, 126; influence of Claude Lorraine on, i, 126; appearance of, i, 131; friendship of, with Sir Walter Scott, i, 132; gentleness of, i, 135; character of, i, 136; religion of, i, 139; grave of, i, 140; iv, 198; Corot compared with, vi, 189; public estimate of, i, 129; Hamerton on, i, 168; iv, 135; quoted, vi, 137; Ruskin and, v, 246; vi, 58; referred to, iii, 28; Ruskin's defense of, v, 13; subtlety of, iv, 325.

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