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Coming from a humble background, the young Turner, self-taught, first worked for an architect where he learned the mastery of perspective and topography. Then, at only fourteen, he entered the Royal Academy school.
Insatiable traveler, he quickly freed himself from the conventions of the pictorial genre to develop his own technique. The exhibition allows us to retrace his career and his artistic evolution from his first more structured works to his flight in its fascinating and colorful lights.
Turner produced works for sale, but he liked to keep the most personal, leaving a considerable stock in his home and studio upon his death.