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Born in 1775, Joseph Mallard William Turner showed artist excellence from an early age and went on to be voted an Associate Member of The Royal Academy at only 27.

Inspired by 17th Century masters such as Poussin, he experimented with light and colour, creating masterpieces that pushed the boundaries of traditional landscape painting.

His pursuit of artistic experience was so extreme that he once insisted on being tied to the mast of a ship during a storm before painting the tempestuous 'Snowstorm steam-boat off a harbour mouth."

When he died in 1851 he left a collection of 350 oil paintings and 20,000 works on paper.

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