William Turner was born in 1775 in London in a modest English family for which he had always great affection. His father was a barber and was, until his death in 1829, his faithful companion, his mother before sinking into madness and died in an asylum in 1804.

From 1789 to 1793, he was apprenticed at the Royal Academy, and is a student of landscape of Thomas Malton. It will run for wealthy sponsors many copies, and meeting important landscape watercolor.

In 1792 he began his study tours throughout England, Wales and Scotland, painting landscapes and seascapes in watercolor. From the age of 14 years, Turner had become accustomed, he should keep long campaign to go with his notebook

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