Like Turner’s paintings of Parliament on fire, Rain, Steam, and Speed was supposedly based on eye-witness reporting. A woman named Jane O’Meara claimed to have observed Turner leaning out the ...

Another beautiful monsoon painting is J.M.W. Turner's ‘Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway’. The painting looks kind of blurry as if it were smudged by someone, but actually ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s ...

The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner. By Franny Moyle. Viking; 508 pages; £25. To be published in America by Penguin in October. NEITHER old admirers nor recent converts ...