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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kurt Pantzer was an Indianapolis attorney and civic leader who fell in love with J.M.W. Turner watercolors when he was a student at Harvard. Pantzer vowed to buy a Turner once he made his first ...

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 ...

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 historical museum might seem an unlikely place for an exhibit by one of the world’s foremost Romantic painters, but 97 watercolors by J.M.W. Turner are on the walls at Mystic Seaport, the only North ...

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 ...

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 ...