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Date of birth/death: circa 23 ... Abergavenny Bridge 1798 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner ... Photo (c) Tate:
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, [a] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
Turner took a degree of artistic licence with the painting. The ship was known to her crew as "Saucy", rather than "Fighting" Temeraire . [ 16 ] Before being sold to the ship-breaker John Beatson, the ship had been lying at Sheerness Dockyard , and was then moved to his wharf at Rotherhithe , [ 17 ] then in Surrey but now in Southwark .
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JMW Turner died in 1851 at the age of 76. "His influence continues to resonate, whether through the Turner Prize, his place on the £20 note or the countless artists inspired by his work," a Tate ...
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