Gallery Notes

PREVIEW: Turner was sent to London at the age of fifteen to take up an apprenticeship under John Varley, and was elected a full member of the Old Watercolour Society in 1808. it was in this period that J.M.W.Turner rose to fame, and as a result the younger artist became known as ‘Turner of Oxford’. his own reputation firmly established, he returned to his uncle’s estate at Shipton-under-cherwell in 1812 and began to build up his practice as a drawing master in Oxford...