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The famous painter J.M.W Turner, (joseph mallord william turner) is called Shakespeare of landscape for his greatest landscape paintings. Turner was one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art. Dallas Museum of Art, Texas hosted a retrospective of J.M.W Turner. Metropolitan Museum of Art also hosted the same exhibit. Turner used his landscapes and seascapes as background to depict historical epic events.

Landscape with trees and figure, by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Watercolour. England, 19th century.

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