J.M.W. Turner - Romanticism, Landscapes, Seascapes

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J.M.W. Turner - Romanticism, Landscapes, Seascapes: In the later years of his life, Turner was more famous, rich, and secretive than ever. After several years of inactivity as professor of perspective at the Royal Academy, he resigned in 1838. By 1846 he owned a house by the river at Chelsea, where he lived with a widow, Sophia Caroline Booth, assuming her surname. Turner continued to travel. In the last 15 years of his life, he visited Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France. Observers have recorded the untiring energy with which he sketched while abroad, and the drawings, numbering about 19,000 in the Turner Bequest, bear witness to
J.M.W. Turner, English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, color, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity. Perhaps the greatest landscapist of the 19th century, he anticipated the French Impressionists in breaking down conventional formulas of representation.