That’s the contention of “Turner’s Modern World,” an extensive and eruptive reassessment of the most celebrated painter of 19th-century Britain, now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts here.

Turner addressed social issues of the day — voting rights, abolition of slavery, freedom of expression and religious tolerance — and he grew more liberal in his views as he developed as an artist.

‘Turner’s Modern World’ Review: A Painter’s Many High Water Marks At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an exhibition looks at the artist’s responses to the massive changes wrought by the ...

The painting depicts Hot Wells House, a hot spring and spa built along the Avon River in Bristol, which Turner saw and sketched during a tour of the West Country in 1791. That sketch served as the ...

The latest (and current) is “J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality,” at the Yale Center for British Art. Its reason for being is the artist’s 250th birthday, and why not?

A retrospective of 140 paintings and watercolors by Turner — the most comprehensive ever in the United States — is on display at the National Gallery through Jan. 6, 2008.

The renowned English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner is celebrated as “the painter of light” for the masterly ways he depicted sunlight in his landscapes and seascapes. Similarly, in the 1970s Louis ...

Last year was a big year for biopics. The rich 2014 crop of biography-on-film includes the beautifully written, acted and photographed “Mr. Turner.” Writer-director Mike Leigh (“Secrets ...