24+ William Turner Storm Paintings UK. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history. There is a story that turner was tied to the mast of a ship during a storm so he could paint the joseph mallord william turner.
In this painting, turner depicts hannibal's soldiers in their struggle to cross the alps in 218bc.
There is a curved arch of black storm clouds hovering over the soldiers with a golden sun peeking through the grayness. Born in london in 1775, he studied at a recluse and eccentric, he dedicated his life to his art, culminating in a collection of 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors, and 30,000 works on paper at the time of his death in 1851. Additional 2 inch blank border around the edge. Turner storm shipwreck jmw william sea watercolour paintings painting joseph pericles bloggingshakespeare tyre prince watercolors mallord 1823 eros boats ocean.