M. W. Turner (The Grand Canal in Venice, 1967 oil on canvas Painting 69.5 x 90 cm. (27.3 x 35.4 in.) 86 x 106 x 6 cm. (33.8 x 41.7 x 2.3 in.) Signed Condition Estimate Subscribers only Auction ...

BOSTON – J.M.W. Turner painted his tumultuous times in incandescent colors, depicting sea battles and the human cost of war, slavery and industrialism with a visionary style that shaped the ...

The renowned British painter Joseph Mallord William (J.M.W.) Turner was born in 1775, and died in 1851. That’s a fact. But due to his tendency to be more secretive than open about his life and ...

The M.F.A., Boston puts Turner’s modernity in the spotlight in the last gallery, a contemporary white cube. The painting at center is “Venice with the Salute,” c. 1840–45.

Lost and tucked away in a private collection for over 150 years, one of J.M.W. Turner's earliest oil paintings has been rediscovered.

Or so the organizers of “ J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality” at the Yale Center for British Art (through July 27) remind us.