JMW Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner, more famously known as William Turner, was an English landscape painter. He painted most prominently in watercolour and oils. He was also recognised as a printmaker too. He was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to what it is today. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour. He is commonly known as “the painter of light” because of the way he captures a scene with his realistic clouds and vivid, blended colours.