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My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

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J. M. W. Turner

Painter

Born: 1775-04-23

Died: 1851-12-19

William Turner RA (baptized 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. 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.More