J.M.W. Turner mk230
ra.1840
Oil on canvas
91x138cm
Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851 landscape master
landscape master .British painter and printmaker. He dominated British landscape painting throughout the first half of the 19th century. He established a reputation in the Royal Academy, London, first as a topographical watercolourist and then within a few years as a painter of Sublime and historical landscapes.
