Description: Joseph Mallord William Turner - " The Shipwreck " - ART: Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolorist, known for his expressive colorization, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 21. Shipwrecks and other disasters at sea were a recurrent theme in Romantic painting. They demonstrated the primal force of the elements, a nightmare for all who travelled far from home. Turner retained a lifelong passion for the sea. We don’t know whether this painting was inspired by an actual shipwreck, or the reissue in 1804 of a famous poem on the theme by William Falconer. Turner defines the essence of such an experience through overwhelming impressions of realism and horror. The dark tonality, characteristic of Turner’s early paintings, provides a foil to the white crests and swirls of the waves. He left behind over 2,000 paintings and 19,000 drawings and sketches. He had been championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting. This Divided Back Era postcard, mailed in 1907, is in good condition, but there is edge and corner wear. Misch & Stock "The Great Masters" Series No. 279.
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Artist: Turner
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Theme: Art
Region: England
Title: The Shipwreck
Joseph Mallord William Turner: Artist
Style: Romantic
Painting: Sea
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Poem: William Falconer
Features: Panoramic
Subject: Seascape
Postage Condition: Posted
Era: Divided Back (c. 1907-1915)
