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J. M. W. Turner Dunwich, Suffolk, c. 1830 |
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About the artist
(This text appears on the back of the greeting card)
J. M. W. TURNER (1775-1851)
 Joseph Mallord William Turner, the son of a London barber, was born in Covent Garden on April 23, 1775. His mother gradually declined into madness and his closest relationship was always with his father. As a young boy he was apprenticed to an artist, and, at the age of fifteen, one of his paintings was exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1802, when he was only 27, he became a full member of the Academy.
Around this time he began making long tours in both Britain and Europe, drawing and painting from nature for the topographical engravings which gave him financial security even when his genius as a romantic landscape painter, and his extreme explorations of light and colour, began to outstrip contemporary taste. His small painting of Dunwich was one of eight drawings in body colour on grey paper, engraved by J. C. Allen for The East Coast of England. In it Turner has freely rotated the ruins of All Saints through 180 degrees. The result is an atmospheric portrait of some of the remains of the most famous sunken city in Britain.
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