A year-long festival of exhibitions and events to celebrate 250 years since the birth of artist JMW Turner has been announced ...

The exhibition explores Turner's genius as both painter and a master of printmaking Some of JMW Turner's lesser-known work has gone on display to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth.

Christine Riding Christine Riding is the head of the curatorial department and curator of British paintings at the National Gallery, London. She was lead curator and author of Turner and the Sea ...

Turner was the most famous British artist of the 19th Century, with a career which spanned half a century. Henry Vaughan was an avid fan who collected more than 200 works and shared them between ...

Turner Contemporary in Margate, built near the spot where the celebrated artist loved to paint the sea, was named after him when it opened in 2011. It will display his oil sketch Waves Breaking on ...