(London 1775 - 1851)
His name was
Joseph Mallord William Turner, a British painter. A precocious artist, he studied with Thomas Malton at the Royal Academy (1789-1793), of which he would later become a professor of perspective (1807) and president (1845). He first exhibited watercolors in 1790 and oil paintings in 1796. Trained in the topographical tradition, he directed his pictorial activity towards...
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