- Birth - Death: 23 April 1775 (Covent Garden, London, England) - 19 December 1851 (Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, England)
- Medium, style: English painter, printmaker, watercolourist. Romanticism.
- Work: The Slave Ship, The Fighting Temeraire, Rain, Steam & Speed-The Great Western Railway
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. . . he was by nature and bringing up shy and suspicious, but nothing conduced more to his mental and moral solitude than his incapacity to express himself in words. He had a mind of unusual range and feelings of unusual depth, but he could scarcely write a sentence of plain English. Other artists, like Claude, Cuyp, Crome, and Constable, have painted certain familiar aspects of nature with more fidelity and completeness, no no landscape-painter has equalled Turner in range, in imagination, or sublimity. His technique in oils was unsound, but in watercolours it was supreme; and in oils his dexterity was such that he obtained unrivalled effects in that medium . . .
The Dictionary of National Biography (Stephen, 1899)
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- Birth - Death: 11 June 1776 (East Bergholt, Suffolk, England) - 31 March 1837 (London, England)
- Medium, style: British landscape painter. Romanticism.
- Work: Dedham Vale, The Hay Wain, Wivenhoe Park
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. . .Other painters have made us see nature at a distance or through a window; he alone has planted our feet in her midst. Fuseli's often misquoted remark, that Constable 'makes me call for my great coat and umbrella,' was no slight tribute to his originality and skill; and Blake once said of one of his sketches, 'This is not drawing, but inspiration.' Much has been written about Constable's art; it has been unjustly depreciated by some (including Ruskin); but his claim to be considered the founder of the school of faithful landscape is now widely recognized at home and abroad, and the artist himself would scarcely have wished for a higher title to immortality . . .
The Dictionary of National Biography (Stephen, 1887). The full biographical reference, and additional references may be found in the main menu or HERE.
