Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family and retained his working class accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
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