The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 years ago.

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April 1775 and was considered one of the greatest Romantic artists, famous for his landscapes and seascapes.

Lost and tucked away in a private collection for over 150 years, one of J.M.W. Turner's earliest oil paintings has been rediscovered.

British painter J.M.W. Turner's profound impact on Australian landscape art is on show in an exhibition featuring his original paintings alongside the masters he inspired.

LONDON (AP) — A German landscape by the quintessentially English painter J.M.W. Turner could fetch 25 million pounds ($31.2 million) when it is auctioned next month.

Turner’s was Dolbadern Castle (1800), a brooding painting of a castle silhouetted against an ill-omened backdrop. A cluster of tiny figures in the foreground hint at some sorry tale.

Lost and tucked away in a private collection for over 150 years, one of J.M.W. Turner's earliest oil paintings has been rediscovered.