April 23 - the birthday of Joseph Mallord William Turner - English Romantic painter, printmaker, and watercolorist. He is known for his expressive coloring, imaginative landscapes, and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting.

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