Joseph Mallord William Turner

English painter and draftsman
British (English), (1775–1851)
Turner dominated British landscape painting throughout the first half of the 19th century. He established a reputation in the Royal Academy, London, as a topographical watercolorist and painter of Sublime and historical landscapes. Turner's body of work includes around three hundred paintings and over twenty thousand drawings and watercolors, the majority of which were given to the English government upon his death.