Background
Charles Turner was born on August 31, 1774, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. He was a son of Charles Turner, an excise officer, and Jane Turner, a former paid companion to the Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace.
Charles Turner was born on August 31, 1774, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. He was a son of Charles Turner, an excise officer, and Jane Turner, a former paid companion to the Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace.
In 1789, Turner left for London, where he spent seven years, apprenticed to the engraver John Jones. At the same time, Charles studied at the Royal Academy Schools.
In the first years of his stay in London, Charles worked for John Boydell, a major print publisher at that time. In 1795, Turner produced his first mezzotint, working from a portrait of John Kirby, the keeper of Newgate, painted by his friend John James Masquerier, and immediately afterwards, he produced a stipple engraving after a portrait of Joshua Reynolds.
In 1798, Charles started to work for the publisher Edward Orme and produced the first plates for his "transparencies", a new type of varnished and coloured print. Some time later, in 1801, the engraver created a print of Napoleon, which was based on a portrait by Masquerier.
During his lifetime, Charles also collaborated with his friend J.M.W. Turner, a painter and printmaker. In 1806, Turner made a mezzotint of J.M.W. Turner's work "Shipwreck". The same year, Charles started to work on the "Liber Studiorum", working in mezzotint over outlines, etched by J.M.W. Turner. The two men also worked together on the plates. Also, Charles created engravings for the other works of J.M.W. Turner.
In 1812, Charles was appointed a mezzotinto engraver in the ordinary to His Majesty.
Despite the fact, that most of Turner's attention was concentrated on mezzotint, he also created stipple engravings, aquatints and etchings.
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