Turner Dover Castle from the Sea 11x14 Matt

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J. M. W. Turner was a preeminent English landscape artist whose dramatic renderings of light and atmosphere greatly influenced the Impressionists. Turner was born in London, England, where his mother died when he was very young. His father was a barber who exhibited Turner's earliest artistic efforts in his barbershop window. Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Art in London, where he had the rare distinction of having a painting exhibited when he was just fifteen. Turner quickly achieved success with his…