William Turner
(1775–1851) brittisk målare och akvarellist
William Turner (1775–1851) is listed in the catalogue as an architect. By year of birth, William Turner belongs to the chapter ‘The Enlightenment’ in this site’s history of architecture.
William Turner was born in Maiden Lane and died in Cheyne Walk. William Turner trained at Royal Academy of Arts. The teachers included Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Malton. William Turner worked in Vienna, Belgium, Prague, and Dieppe. Wikidata associates William Turner with Romanticism and English painting. William Turner became a member of Royal Academy of Arts.
The best-known works include ‘The Fighting Temeraire’, ‘Fishermen at Sea’, ‘The Battle of Trafalgar’, and ‘Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway’. The works belong mainly to the genres marine art, history painting, and landscape painting. The catalogue has one building by William Turner. The dated building is from 1804.
Contemporary architects in the same chapter include Stamatis Voulgaris, Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer, Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, and Carlo Domenico Visconti.