JMW Turner

JMW Turner Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth exh. RA 1842 Tate
Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Born
1774
Died
1850