J.M.W. Turner British Artists Series

by Sam Smiles, Tate Gallery

This series of affordable monographs focuses on the lives and careers of important British artists from the 18th century to the present day.

J.M.W. Turner is probably the greatest painter Britain has ever produced. Both profoundly original and astonishingly prolific, he helped transform landscape painting into an expressive art form of enormous range and power.

Genres: Art

80 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2000

About the author

Sam Smiles, Honorary Professor, University of Exeter, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Plymouth Centre for Romanticism, & Tate Britain curator