Oil on paper laid on canvas; 23.5 X 32.6 cm. English painter, ranked with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape artists. Although he showed an early talent for art and began painting before he left school, his great originality matured slowly. He committed himself to a career as an artist only in 1799, when he joined the Royal Academy Schools, and it was not until 1829 that he was grudgingly made a full Academician, elected by a majority of one vote. During the 1820s he began…
