J.M.W. Turner:
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851 landscape master
landscape master .British painter and printmaker. He dominated British landscape painting throughout the first half of the 19th century. He established a reputation in the Royal Academy, London, first as a topographical watercolourist and then within a few years as a painter of Sublime and historical landscapes.
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mk290 veice 1835 canvas 36x48in the metropolitan museum of art new york bequest of cornelius vanderbilt 1899
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