Turner told Artsy. “A huge desire to be the greatest painter of his day.” As a young artist, he was known to endlessly copy and recopy the most. his expressive colourizations, imaginative landscapes. and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.