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Joseph Mallord William Turner was known for his atmospheric paintings of light. From humble beginnings as the son of a Covent Garden barber to his extraordinary final years as a pretend Admiral of the Navy, we reveal his unceasing creative life, look at his influences, consider the artists he influenced, and learn how he revolutionised watercolour and oil painting with his later expressive and almost abstract style.
Turner was a man with no manners, and yet he gained many commissions from aristocrats. He mumbled so much that his students couldn’t understand him, and yet became the first Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy. He became arguably the most exquisite, treasured romantic landscape and marine painter the nation has ever known.