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Martin R.F. Butlin
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Former Keeper of the British Collection, Tate Gallery, London. Author of Turner Watercolours; coauthor of The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner.

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J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner was an English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, color, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity. Turner was the son of a barber. At age 10 he was sent to live with an uncle at Brentford, Middlesex, where he attended school. Several…
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