A year-long festival of exhibitions and events to celebrate 250 years since the birth of artist JMW Turner has been announced. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April 1775 and was ...

On 21 October 1805, the Royal Navy clashed with the Combined French and Spanish fleet at Cape Trafalgar, off the coast of Spain. The battle had massive repercussions for Napoleon's France and the ...

The Battle Of Trafalgar and The Burning Of The Houses Of Lords And Commons, among other pieces, which capture tempestuous scenery as he helped redefine landscape painting. JMW Turner died in 1851 ...

The letter is expected to be sold for $2,000 (£1,600). The Battle of Trafalgar saw the Royal Navy defeat a joint Franco-Spanish fleet thus preventing it from taking control of the English Channel ...

J.M.W. Turner's 1839 painting "The Fighting Temeraire ... the ghostly veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar is being guided to ...

Why the Battle of Diu is as historic as the Battle of Trafalgar. IMAGE: Francisco de Almeida won an impressive victory against the navies of the sultan of Egypt and the kings of Cambay and Calicut ...

the Turner Prize, was named after him. He is known for the works The Fighting Temeraire, The Slave Ship, The Battle Of Trafalgar and The Burning Of The Houses Of Lords And Commons, among other ...