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Turner |
Cultural and Political Events |
| 1845 |
Turner is appointed Acting President of the Royal Academy during the illness of Sir Martin Archer Shee. |
Potato famine in Ireland. |
| 1846 |
Turner begins to live with Mrs Booth in Chelsea under the assumed name of 'Admiral Booth'. |
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| 1847 |
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Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights. |
| 1848 |
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Karl Marx and Frederic Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Revolutionary uprisings across Europe.
In Paris, Louis-Philippe abdicates and Louis Napoleon elected as President.
Founding of the 'Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood'. |
| 1850 |
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Death of William Wordsworth. |
| 1851 |
Turner dies at his home in Chelsea. His body is buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral. |
The Great Exhibition held in London at the Crystal Palace.
John Everett Millais begins work on Ophelia.
Ophelia,
1851-2
John Everett Millais
© Tate, London 2002 |
