William Turner (November 12, 1789 – August 7, 1862) was an English painter who concentrated on watercolor landscapes. He was a contemporary of the more famous artist J. M. W. Turner, who had a similar style. He is often referred to as Turner of Oxford to distinguish him from his namesake. Many of Turner”s paintings conveyed Oxford”s countryside. One of his best known art is a Hinskey Hill view of Oxford. Learn more »

Paintings by William Turner in Chronological Order

The Pantheon, the Morning after the Fire, 1792	Cathedral Church at Lincoln, 1795	Fishermen at Sea, c.1796
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, 1796	Moonlight, A Study at Millbank, 1797	Buttermere Lake, a Shower, c.1798
Morning Amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland, 1798	Dolbadern Castle, 1799	Norham Castle, Sunrise, 1798
Caernarvon Castle, 1799	Perspective View of Fonthill Abbey from the South West, c.1799	Self-Portrait, 1799
South View of Christ Church, from the Meadows, 1799	The Fifth Plague of Egypt, 1800	Dutch Boats in a Gale, 1801
Dutch Boats in a Gale, 1801	Dutch Fishing Boats in a Storm, 1801	Pembroke Caselt, South Wales, Thunder Storm Approaching, 1801
Lake Lucerne, 1802	Ships Bearing up for Anchorage (“The Egremont Sea Piece”), 1802	Bonneville, Savoy with Mont Blanc, 1803
Calais Pier, with French Poissards Preparing for Sea, an English Packeet Arriving, 1803	Glacier and Source of the Arveron, Going Up to the Mer de Glace, 1803	The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage, Macon, 1803
The Passage of the St. Gothard, 1804	Interior of Salisbury Cathedral, c.1805	The Shipwreck, c.1805
The Lake of Thun, Switzerland, c.1806	Windsor Castle from the Thames, c.1806	Sun Rising through Vagour Fishermen Cleaning and Sellilng Fish, 1807
The Thames near Walton Bridges, c.1807	Tree Tops and Sky, Guildford Castle, 1807	Pope”s Villa, at Twickenham, 1808
The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory, 1808	London, 1809	Ploughing up Turnips, near Slough, 1809
The big connection channel at Southall Mill, 1810	The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons, 1810	The Lake Geneva seen from Montreux, 1810
The Wreck of a Transport Ship, c.1810	Scarborough Town and Castle. Morning.Boys Catching Crabs, 1811	Snow Storm, Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps, c.1812
The Mew Stone at the Entrance of Plymouth Sound, c.1814	Crossing the Brook, 1815	Dido Building Carthage, 1815
The Battle of Fort Rock, Val d”Aoste, Piedmont, 1815	Pendennis Castle, Cornwall Scene after a Wreck, c.1816	The Vale of Ashburnham, 1816
Landscape Composition of Tivoli, 1817	Mount Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817	The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire, 1817
A First Rate Taking In Stores, 1818	Dort, the Dort Packet Boat from Rotterdam Bacalmed, c.1818	Raby Castle, Residence of the Earl of Darlington, 1818
Raby Castle, Residence of the Earl of Darlington, 1818	Heriot”s Hospital, Edinburgh, c.1819	Rome, The Forum with a Rainbow, 1819
San Giorgio Maggiore in the Morning,, 1819	St. Peter”s from the south, 1819	Venice, Looking East from the Guidecca, Sunrise, , 1819
Rome from the Vatican, 1820	Rome, The Colosseum, 1820	Norham Castle on the Tweed, c.1820
What You Will!, 1822	A Storm (Shipwreck), 1823	Childe Harold, 1823
Norham Castle, on the River Tweed, 1823	Rye, Sussex, c.1823	The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl, c.1823
Arundel Castle, with Rainbow, 1824	Rhodes (for Lord Byron”s Works), 1824	The Bass Rock, for The Provincial Antiquities of Scotland, c.1824
Rivaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, c.1825	Shipwreck off Hastings, c.1825	Storm Clouds Sunset, c.1825
Fall of the Trees, Yorkshire, c.1826	Mortlake Terrace, 1826	Okehampton, c.1826
Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland, 1826	View from the Terrace of a Villa at Niton, Isle of Wight, from sketches by a lady, 1826	Cowes, Isle of Wight, c.1827
Louth, Lincolnshire, c.1827	A Ship Aground, c.1828	Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, c.1828
Archway with Trees by the Sea, c.1828	Ariccia Sunset, c.1828	Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight, c.1828
Chichester Canal, c.1828	East Cowes Castle, the seat of J.Nash, Esq. the Regatta beating to windward, 1828	Hill Town on the Edge of the Campagna, c.1828
Interior at Petworth, 1828	Petworth Park, Tillington Church in the Distance, c.1828	Petworth, the Drawing room, Bodycolor on blue paper, c.1828
Playing Billiards, Petworth, c.1828	Stonehenge, c.1828	The Chain Pier, Brighton, c.1828
The Lake, Petworth sunset, fighting bucks, c.1829	Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, 1829	View of Orvieto, 1829
Virginia Water, c.1829	Death on a Pale Horse, 1830	Kenilworth Castle, c.1830
Rocky Bay with Figures, c.1830	Scene on the Loire, 1830	Caligula”s Palace and Bridge, 1831
Fort Vimieux, 1831	Staffa, Fingal”s Cave, 1832	View over Town at Suset, a Cemetery in The Foreground, 1832
Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, Venice Canaletti Painting, 1833	Quillebeuf, at the Mouth of Seine, 1833	The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834
The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834	The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834	Wreckers Coast of Northumberland, c.1834
Dinner in a Great Room with Figures- in Costume, c.1835	Fire at Sea, c.1835	Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background, 1835
Longship Lighthouse, Lands End, c.1835	Music Company, Petworth, c.1835	The Bright Stone of Honour (Ehrenbreitstein) and the Tomb of Marceau, from Byron”s “Childe Harold”, 1835
The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1835	The High Street, Oxford, 1835	Two women and a letter, c.1835
Yacht Approaching the Coast, 1835	Rome from Mount Aventine, 1836	Hero and Leander”s farewell, 1837
Interior of Petworth House, c.1837	Regulus, 1837	Ancient Italy. Ovid Banished from Rome, 1838
Flint Castle, 1838	Ancient Rome Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus, 1839	The “Fighting Temeraire” Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken up, c.1839
Ehrenbrietstein and Coblenz, 1840	Sunrise, with a Boat between Headlands, 1840	The Slave Ship, 1840
Venice, seen from the Giudecca Canal, 1840	Giudecca, la Donna della Salute and San Georgio, 1841	Goldau, 1841
Hafod, 1841	South of Bellinzona, 1841	Campo Santo, Venice, 1841
Peace, c.1842	Storm Seam Boat off a Harbour”s Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and Going by the Lead, c.1842	The Blue Rigi Lake of Lucerne Sunrise, 1482
The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, From the Steps of the Europa, 1842	Approach to Venice, 1843	Shade and Darkness, The Evening of The Deluge, 1843
The Morning after the Deluge, c.1843	Brunnen, from the Lake of Lucerne, 1845	Norham Castle, Sunrise, 1845
Sunrise with Sea Monsters, c.1845	Whalers, 1845	Heidelberg, c.1846
The Angel Standing in the Sun, 1846	Undine Giving the Ring to Massaniello, Fisherman of Naples, 1846	The Brunig Pass, from Meringen, 1848
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, c.1848	Mercury Sent to Admonish Aeneas, 1850	A bed, drapery study
A Canal Tunnel Near Leeds	Abergavenny Bridge, Monmountshire -clearing up after a showery day	Atelier
Boscastle, Cornwall	Conway Castle	Departure of the Fleet
Dover Castle	Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall	Folkestone from the Sea
Folkestone from the Sea	Genda	Ingleborough From The Terrace Of Hornby Castle
Interior of Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire	Ivy Bridge, Devonshire	Keelmen heaving in coals by night
Keyes Mill	Kilchern Castle, with the Cruchan Ben Mountains, Scotland Noon	Lancaster Sands
Melrose Abbey	Mont Blanc from Fort Roch, Val D”Aosta	Mountain Stream, Coniston
Old London Brige	One bedroom	Painter at the easel
Passage of Mount Cenis	Portsmouth	Rain Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railwa
Rainbow	Rome From Monte Testaccio	Salon
Salon	Shipwreck	St. Erasmus in Bishop Islips Chapel, Westminster Abbey
Stamford	Sunrise, Whiting Fishing at Margate	Tabley, the Seat of Sir J.F. Leicester Bt.: Windy Day
The Battle of Trafalgar	The Chapter House, Salisbury Chathedral	The Devil”s Bridge, St. Gothard
The Exile and the Snail	The Grand Canal Scene, A Street In Venice	The Grand Canal, Venice, engraved by William Miller
The Nordgalerie	Totnes, in the River Dart	Transept of Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire
Valley of The Brook Kedron	Venedig	View of Saint Germain ea Laye and Its Chateau
Welsh Bridge at Shrewsbury	Weymouth	Whitby
Wilderness A Engedi & Convent of Santa Saba