A view of "Turner’s Modern World" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, running through July 10, 2022. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) As you walk into the first gallery of the ...

Sure, Turner was a proud en plein air painter, preferring to produce his paintings out in the open as opposed to inside a studio. Joseph Mallord William Turner, Self portrait, age 24 (ca. 1754).

J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" depicts the callous cruelty of the slave trade. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Henry ...