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Here is a selection curated by TIME art critic Richard Lacayo ### The Chancel and Crossing of Tintern Abbey, Looking towards the East Window, exhibited 1794  Pencil and watercolor on paperIn 1792, just 17 years old and already a skilled draughtsman, Turner journeyed through the Wye Valley, birthplace of the "picturesque." There he saw Tintern Abbey, the ruined Gothic church that would later find its way into the title of one of Wordsworths' most famous poems. Tate, London ### Death on a Pale Horse, c. 1825-1835  oil on canvasThis unfinished canvas is one of Turner's strangest and most powerful. Death appears to be dead himself — or at least not feeling very well. The painting may be in part a response to the death of Turner's beloved father in 1829. Tate, London ### Disaster at Sea (also known as The Wreck of the Amphitrite), c. 1833-1835  oil on canvasAnother unfinished canvas, this one shows the destruction of a ship that went down at sea less than a mile from shore, taking with it 125 female convicts and their children. The captain refused to put them into life boats, fearing he would be held responsible financially if any of the prisoners escaped. Turner used the episode to produce a scene of chaos and horror. Tate, London ### The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834, 1835  oil on canvasWhen flames destroyed the old houses of parliament, Turner rushed to join the crowds watching the fire, then hired a boat so he could get a closer look. It was for him the perfect spectacle, an immaterial substance, fire, being reflected in water. Philadelphia Museum of Art ### The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834  watercolor on paperWorking from memory and pencil sketches made at the scene, Turner later in his studio produced a series of nine watercolors of the fire. Remarkable exercises in something close to abstraction, from the proper distance they still snap into place as recognizable scenes. Tate, London ### Snow Storm — Steam Boat off a Harbor’s Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and Going by the Lead. The Author Was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel Left Harwich, 1842  oil on canvasBy the 1830s Turner was increasingly given to produce freely brushed, indistinct imagery that left his public utterly puzzled. On seeing this picture, one critic complained that "Where the steam boat is — where the harbour ends — which are the signals, and which the author in the Ariel...are matters past our finding out." Tate, London ### Europa and the Bull, c. 1845  oil on canvasTurner's late unfinished works, many of which were not exhibited until decades after his death in 1851, are some of his most appealing to modern eyes. They seem to point the way not only to Impressionism, but even to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati ### Caernarvon Castle, 1799  pencil and watercolor on paperOn a later trip to Wales, Turner saw Caernarvon Castle and painted it in a manner borrowed from the 17th century French landscape artist Claude Lorrain, who would be a lifelong inspiration. Private Collection ### Dolbadern Castle, North Wales, 1800  oil on canvasCatering to an emerging taste among Britons for romanticized versions of both their history and their landscapes, Turner provided this scene of a lakeside castle which was in legend once the prison of the Welsh prince Owen Goch. Turner altered the real castle in his image by raising it higher, silhouetting it against the sky and cutting a lonely window to suggest Goch's incarceration. Royal Academy of Arts, London ### The Shipwreck, 1805  oil on canvasTurner was one of the greatest maritime painters of all time. His ability to suggest the churning surface action of water astonished his contemporaries. This picture is probably a record of what was in 1805 a current event, a disaster in February that claimed the life of Wordsworth's brother John, the ship's captain. Tate, London ### The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory, 1806, reworked 1808  oil on canvasTurmoil was Turner's natural element. In this scene of the decisive naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, he offers a chaotic clash of masts, sailcloth and rigging. At the base of the mast just left of center, the British Admiral Horatio Nelson, surrounded by his grieving men, is dying. But the French tricolor being laid across the deck at bottom left announces the victory that Nelson would not live to see. Tate, London ### Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, 1812  oil on canvasOne of Turner's achievements would be to make landscape not just the equal of history painting, but a kind of history painting, in which nature operates as a surrogate for the force of events. In this canvas it's not even clear where Turner has placed Hannibal. Could he be that minuscule silhouette in the middle distance on a tiny elephant, the one dwarfed by the coiling surf of gray-brown cloud above his head? The mighty general is just a comma in the larger scheme. Tate, London ### A First-Rate Taking in Stores, 1818  pencil and watercolor with scratching out and stopping out on paperTurner dashed off this superb watercolor one morning at the request of his patron Walter Fawkes, whose 15-year-old son watched Turner at work and later described the artist's methods : \[Turner\] began by pouring wet paint onto the paper until it was saturated, he tore, he scratched, he scrubbed at it in a kind of frenzy and the whole thing was chaos — but gradually and as if by magic the lovely ship, with all its exquisite minutia, came into being." Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford ### Regulus, 1828, reworked 1837  oil on canvasMarcus Atilius Regulus was a Roman general captured by the Carthaginians who allegedly cut off his eyelids and forced him to stare into the sun until he went blind. In Turner's painting, Regulus is barely visible as a tiny figure on the right. The real protagonist here is the sun itself, which explodes out of the center of the canvas to sear the viewer's eyes, just as it did to Regulus. Tate, London ### Venice: The Dogana (Customs Office) and San Giorgio Maggiore, 1834  oil on canvasTurner adored Venice and why wouldn't he? It's an entire city built on his favorite substance, water, where the buildings can seem to dematerialize in their own watery reflections. He first visited in 1819 and returned repeatedly. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7087393/j-m-w-turner-the-sunshine-boy-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7087393/j-m-w-turner-the-sunshine-boy-2/"},"headline":"J.M.W. 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