Joseph Mallord William Turner top: The Grand Canal bottom: The Fighting Temeraire tugged t
Joseph Mallord William Turner top: The Grand Canal bottom: The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up “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. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light” and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.“ -- source link
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