Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), the son of a barber and wigmaker in London's Covent Garden, dominated landscape painting in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century. Although he initially became known for his topographical watercolors, which he began exhibiting at the Roy
Wafted across the rustling waters by spring breezes, the naked goddess alights on shore, long-limbed and emanating beauty that could only come from a more powerful and mythical world. Her arrival on her lovely scallop-shell boat, with her blonde hair flowing about her, signals a new era. She is born
Hume's use of common household paints and his combinations of colors are at once unique and disconcerting. The paintings might resemble something wallpapery, when covered with clusters of flowery images, or some kind of optical illusion, when he uses large color blocks to represent figures in silhoue