The item which influenced this post is a book I purchased in a side street antique collectible shop whilst on holiday in Nerja. We normally stay every year within Nerja with regard to our own holidays and we usually stay in some elegant Nerja apartments, some classy villas in Nerja or a well known Nerja holiday getaway rental accommodation. Anyway I’ll carry on with the write-up.
The artist John William Turner was given birth to in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London in 1775. His father William Turner was a barber and also a good quality hairpiece manufacturer, his mom Mary Marshall grew to become mentally unstable, possibly due to the reduction of Turner’s sibling Mary Ann Turner at an early age in 1786. Mary Marshall passed away inside 1804, after having already been fully committed within 1799 to St Luke’s Hospital and also then to the Bethlem Royal Hospital, a psychological asylum in Beckenham otherwise identified as Bedlam.
Turner came into the Regal School of Artwork in 1789, when he was just 14 years of age, and was accepted into the academy merely one calendar year later. Sir Joshua Reynolds, during that time was the leader of the Royal Academia, and also he has been accountable for admitting Turner into the academy. At first, Turner indicated an interest in architecture but was encouraged to continue painting by the renowned architect Thomas Hardwick.
A watercolour by Turner had been accepted for the Summer time Exhibition of 1790 after only one calendar year of studying at the school. He exhibited his very first oil painting in 1796; the title of the painting was Fishermen at Sea. This proved a great success, to the point that Turner displayed his works of art just about every calendar year for the remainder of his existence.
The most famous painting produced by Turner was without any doubt The Fighting Temeraire, a ship deployed in the battle of Trafalgar within 1805. The painting depicts the actual demise of this famous ship being towed to its final berth within East London around 1838, and eventually broken for scrap. Turner was well into his 60′s when the actual piece of art had been completed and refused to offer the painting at any price. It was bequeathed to the National Art gallery inside London.
He passed away in the house of his mistress Sophia Caroline Booth in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea on 19 December 1851. At his own request he was laid to rest in St Paul’s Cathedral, alongside Sir Joshua Reynolds. His final exhibition at the Royal Academy was in 1850. The architect Philip Hardwick (1792-1870) who had been a great friend of Turner’s and the son of the Turner’s teacher, Thomas Hardwick, has been in general charge of making his funeral arrangements.