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J.M.W. Turner

1775–1851 · 19th century · United Kingdom · Romanticism

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway — J.M.W. Turner
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway

How to recognize J.M.W. Turner

Turner dissolves the world into light and atmosphere — storms, steam, and blazing sunsets where ships and land almost vanish into luminous haze. A near-abstract whirl of colour and weather.

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