Harewood House in West Yorkshire have opened a new exhibition today imagining an encounter between Jane Austen and JMW Turner ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

Cold moonlight, golden sunset and shimmering waters are only three reasons to love Turner. On the 250th anniversary of his birth, curators, art historians and other creative minds reveal which of his ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest ... smoke streaming from the perilously listing ship, and surging sea captured in a spiralling vortex of ...

Temeraire's last voyage [The Fighting Temeraire] by JMW Turner, became a national symbol ... glory It is understandable why the public of Turner's time might have had sympathy for His/Her Majesty's ...

As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise ... in return – an onslaught that lacerated the ship and spattered her decks with blood.

For the first time in 20 years, a wide range of J.M.W. Turner’s artistic studies of a stately home in Sussex will be exhibited in the very place that inspired him. Turner’s Vision at Petworth ...

TR: The São José Paquete Africa is the name of the ship that came from Mozambique and wrecked in South Africa, and I think it's an incredible story. Very briefly, the Portuguese slave traders ...

A huge retrospective gives the authorised version of this prolific artist’s career. By Michael Prodger By 1962, the year David Hockney graduated from the Royal College of Art, he had already appeared ...

I still remember in my art history class when my professor showed us J.M.W. Turner’s “The Slave Ship.” The painting is a brilliant array of colors and teeters on the edge of abstract, but the longer ...