Joseph Mallord William Turner, born in England on April 23, 1775, was a renowned artist known as the 'painter of light.' An English Romantic landscape painter, printmaker, and watercolorist, his style was believed to influence Impressionism. Turner was applauded for capturing nature's moods in his oil paintings. By age 29, he had become an art scholar, studying at the Royal Academy of Art and the Louvre in Paris.
Turner's inspirations came from shipwrecks, fires, and natural catastrophes, as well as natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain and fog. The Turner Museum, founded in 1974, holds a collection of his prints. Several of his works are held in the United States at various museums, including "Eruption of Vesuvius" (1817) and "Slave Ship" (1840).
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