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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
J. M. W. Turner
Born: April 23, 1775
Died: December 19, 1851 (aged 76)
Bio: Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Known for:
- The Fighting Temeraire (1839)
- Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
- The Slave Ship (1840)