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J.M.W. Turner, in full Joseph Mallord William Turner, (born April 23, 1775, London, England—died December 19, 1851, London), English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, colour, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity.

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His work is manly topographical focused in the accuracy portrayal of places

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Joseph Mallord William Turner was an 18th century artist known for his paintings that focused on and perfectly portray what he saw. He made oil paintings and also watercolor paintings. Recognized for the painting "Fishermen at Sea" which was critically acclaimed at the time as something of a brilliant mind. His life was private and he was unsociable and a bit eccentric, those are characteristics of an artist ahead of his time, he could archive deeds of much older masters.

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