Light, weather, and movement take over the canvas in J.M.W. Turner’s art. His glowing skies, stormy seas, and dissolving forms pushed British landscape painting beyond description and toward sensation, atmosphere, and mood.

Turner trained at the Royal Academy Schools and became one of the most ambitious painters of his generation. He traveled widely, filled sketchbooks with observations, and returned again and again to subjects shaped by weather, water, fire, architecture, and the changing effects of light.

His paintings could be dramatic, radiant, and difficult for his own time. Today, Turner is remembered as one of the great masters of landscape and a key figure in the move toward more expressive, light-filled modern painting.