Monday, April 4, 2022

William Turner
(1775-1851)
 

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838
1839
Oil on canvas
90 x 121 cm
The National Gallery

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-fighting-temeraire

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