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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851
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From Tate Britain:
Turner was interested in marine subjects from an early age. He first made drawings of sea-going ships while visiting relatives at Margate at the age of about ten. Years later, when shown a print after the seventeenth-century Dutch marine artist Willem van de Velde, he is said to have declared, 'That made me a painter'.