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Charles Turner (engraver)

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87: 64: 156:, working in mezzotint over outlines etched by J.M.W. Turner. After the issue of the first part he also took over as publisher. The two men worked closely on the plates, J.M.W. Turner adding new ideas to the proofs as the work progressed. Charles Turner continued to work on the project until 1809, when a quarrel over money led to the end of the arrangement: according to his own account, the two men did not speak for the next 19 years. He did however engrave and publish a plate after J.M.W. Turner's 22: 175:, and etchings. The mezzotints themselves were worked over an etched background. Although his work covers a wide range of genres, his main interest was portraiture; Whitman lists 637 portraits, out of a total of 921 prints. He was exceptionally prolific, his ability to produce work quickly allowing him to successfully exploit the market for images of people were currently attracting public attention. 75: 102:
Turner was born at Woodstock in Oxfordshire. His father, also named Charles, was an excise officer, and his mother, Jane was a former paid companion to the Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace. Following his father's death, his mother returned to the Duchess's service, with the result that
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in 1828. Up to that point he had only exhibited paintings and drawings at the Academy, but from then on also showed prints. From about 1836 his output declined, and he exhibited no more mezzotints after 1843.
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In 1801 he issued, with great success, a print of Napoleon, apparently based on a portrait by Masquerier painted on a visit to Paris, and was involved in the exhibition of a gigantic painting,
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after a portrait of Joshua Reynolds. Turner's biographer, Alfred Whitman, dismisses a tradition in the artist's family that he was apprenticed to
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from 1823 onwards. The relationship seems eventually to have been mended, and Charles Turner was one of the executors of J. M. W. Turner's will.
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to produce the first plates for his "transparencies", a new type of varnished and coloured print designed to be illuminated from behind.
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He made his first mezzotint in 1795, working from a portrait of John Kirby, the keeper of Newgate, painted by his friend
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He was appointed "Mezzotinto Engraver in Ordinary to his Majesty" in 1812 and was elected an associate of the
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Brentford to Oxford: J. M. W. Turner's Early Career Under the Guardianship of His Uncle J. M. W. Marshall
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Turner had access to the gallery at the palace. He moved to London in about 1789, where he worked for
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engraver and draughtsman who specialized in portraiture. He collaborated with
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Although predominantly working in mezzotint, Turner also produced
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While a student at the Royal Academy, he had become a friend of
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Woodstock, Oxfordshire
mezzotint
J. M. W. Turner
Liber Studiorum

Highgate Cemetery

Dudley Digges

Robert Fagan
Sarah Capell-Coningsby, Countess of Essex
John Boydell
Royal Academy Schools
John James Masquerier
stipple engraving
George Jones
John Jones
Edward Orme
J.M.W. Turner
stipple engravings
aquatints
Royal Academy
Warren Street
Highgate Cemetery
Royal Academy
Whitman 1907
Old Prints and Engravings
Whitman 1907

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