Joseph Mallord William Turner

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

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An English Romanticist landscape painter.

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Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now
regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence
rivalling history painting.

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Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is
also one of the greatest masters of British
watercolour landscape painting.

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He is commonly known as "the painter of light".