William Turner (painter)

William Turner
Newnham-on-Severn from Dean Hill acquired for Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery in 1977 with help from The Art Fund.
Born	William Turner (1789-11-29)29 November 1789 Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England
Died	7 August 1862(1862-08-07) (aged 72) St John Street, Oxford, England
Known for	Watercolours

William Turner RWS (29 November 1789 – 7 August 1862) was a British painter who specialised in watercolour landscapes. He is often known as William Turner of Oxford or just Turner of Oxford to distinguish him from his contemporary, J. M. W. Turner (known as William). Many of Turner's paintings depicted the countryside around Oxford.^[1] One of his best known pictures is a view of the city of Oxford from Hinksey Hill.^[1]

In 1898, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford held a retrospective exhibition of his work. Some of his paintings are still on permanent display at the museum. In 1984, the Oxfordshire County Council presented his work in an exhibition at the Oxfordshire County Museum in Woodstock. His paintings are also held in national and international collections, for example at the Tate Gallery (London, UK), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, US) and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand).