Turner

Turner 

Joseph Mallord William Turner (often abbreviated as William Turner) was born in Covent Garden, London on April 23, 1775. His father, William, was a wig maker and later became a barber, and his mother, Mary Marshall was a housewife.
William's mother became increasingly mentally unstable, perhaps due to the fact that William's younger sister died when she still was a young girl. William's mother died in 1804, having been committed to a mental asylum. Because of this rather difficult family situation, William Turner was sent in 1785 to stay with his uncle on his mother's side in Brentford, which was then a small town west of London on the banks of the Thames. It was here that he first expressed an interest in painting.
 A year later he went to school in Margate in Kent to the east of London in the area of the Thames estuary. At this time he had been creating many paintings, which his father exhibited in his shop window.
 When William Turner turned 15, he went to the Royal Academy of Art. Turner had the chance to exhibit his first work ever, a watercolor, after only one year of his studies. In 1796 William Turner exhibited his first oil painting. William Turner always remembered the Royal Academy of Art, and continued exhibiting there throughout the rest of his life.

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