Joseph Mallord William Turner, known as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter regarded as one of the greatest British painters of the 19th century. His expressive renditions of light and atmosphere and bold use of colour in landscape painting inspired the early impressionists Monet and Pissarro. April 23, 1775 – December 19, 1851; died at 76. Alive at the same time as Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wiki link