historical figure: J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)

J.M.W. Turner, born in 1775, attended the Royal Academy aged 14 and grew out to one of Britain’s most celebrated artist. He is still considered a controversial figure. Wellknown as a landscape artist, there was another Turner, as Schama puts it: ‘extreme Turner, the cockney poet just short of madness, the Turner we ought to…