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Joseph Turner
Another famous English painter was Joseph Turner (1775—1851), whose business was to paint the light.
He proved that with the help of light it is, possible to show qualities of any subject.
Son of a London barber, he started drawing and painting when he was a little boy.
In 1802 Turner was elected academician of the Royal Academy, where his oil paintings had been exhibited.
He died at the age of seventy-six.
Turner was a representative of Romanticism.
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