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Joseph Mallord William Turner

1775–1851

Self-Portrait c.1799
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Two Women with a Boy and a Small Child

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1796
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The Death of Actaeon, with a Distant View of Montjovet, Val d’Aosta

Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1837

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A Mountain Stream, Perhaps Bolton Glen

Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1810–5

Frontispiece

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1812
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Frontispiece, engraved by J.C. Easling

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1812
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Bridge and Cows

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1807
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Bridge and Cows, engraved by Charles Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1807
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Woman and Tambourine

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1807
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Sheet of Studies: An Old Bearded Man Seen in Profile with a Boy Reaching Past him, Holding a Hat

Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1796–7
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A Party of Men Picnicking: ?Turner and his Travelling Companions

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1802
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Turner’s Address: 47 Queen Anne Street

Joseph Mallord William Turner
1831
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Self-Portrait

Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1799
On display at Tate Britain part of JMW Turner

Portrait of J.M.W. Turner, R.A.

John Thomas Smith
date not known

Portrait Study of J.M.W. Turner’s Father, with a Sketch of Turner’s Eyes, Made during a Lecture

John Linnell
1812

Louvre (‘J.M.W. Turner’ ‘Edward Rampton’)

Braco Dimitrijević
1975–9
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Portrait of J.M.W. Turner

Charles Turner
1852
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Samuel Rogers at his Breakfast Table, engraved by Charles Mottram

After John Doyle, engraver Charles Mottram
c.1823

Portrait of J.M.W. Turner (‘The Fallacy of Hope’), engraved by J. Hogarth

Charles Hullmandel, after Count Alfred D’Orsay
published 1851
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Portrait of Turner, engraved by W. Holl

After Joseph Mallord William Turner
published 1859–61

Statue of Turner (Turner Gallery frontispiece without lettering)

After Joseph Mallord William Turner
published 1859–61

Statue of Turner (Turner Gallery frontispiece without lettering)

After Joseph Mallord William Turner
1859–61

Turner’s Death Mask

Thomas Woolner
1851
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A Sketch at Every Turn

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