British painter J.M.W. Turner was both prolific and peripatetic, producing more than 30,000 watercolors during a lifetime in which he traveled throughout Europe. But these works are extremely ...

J.M.W. Turner, Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel, St David’s, (1795). Courtesy Cheffins Auctioneers A J.M.W Turner watercolor that was acquired for a mere £100 ($127) in the early 1990s is now expected to fetch ...

The largest collection of watercolors by the British artist J.M.W. Turner opened at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut on Saturday. Nicholas Bell, senior vice president of curatorial affairs at ...

A rare, rediscovered watercolor by JMW Turner could fetch a cool half-a-million when it hits the auction block at Christie’s New York next month. The foggy watercolor sketch of the Venetian lagoon was ...

Remember that time J.M.W. Turner grew a thumbnail long enough to be almost grotesque, to perforate the paper and lift the paint into an effect of rushing iridescence? Or the time he used a pumice ...

Inspired by Turner’s travels to Switzerland between 1841 and 1844, the watercolor captures what is considered one of the most dramatic landscapes in the Swiss Alps—a view of the picturesque village of ...

For over 100 years, the subject of J.M.W. Turner‘s “The Burning of the Houses of Parliament,” a series of nine watercolors, has been identified as the October 1834 fire that burned down London’s old ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A watercolor by British artist JMW Turner not seen in public for more than a century and listed as lost has been bought by an American collector for 2.9 million pounds ($5.9 million ...

MYSTIC, Conn. — There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who like Joseph Mallord William Turner, and those who like him a lot. I say this because I don’t know how it’s possible to not at ...

J.M.W. Turner was the greatest artist who ever worked in watercolor, but we seldom get a chance to see his works -- for conservation reasons, these pictures can only rarely be exposed to light. Tate ...