Great Artists : J M W Turner : Posted by Gillian Hammerton .

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.

Saturday 23 June 2012

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway : 1844, : Joseph Mallord William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner: 'Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway'

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway : 1844 : Joseph Mallord William Turner

The scene is fairly certainly identifiable as Maidenhead railway bridge, across the Thames between Taplow and Maidenhead. The bridge, which was begun on Brunel's design in 1837 and finished in 1839, has two main arches of brick, very wide and flat. The view is to the east, towards London.