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Born 1775, Turner is known as one of the most original of all landscape painters. Though from a poor background and lacking any formal education, he was talented enough to exhibit at the Royal Academy at the age of just 15, and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy at 24, the youngest permitted age. At this time he began to win recognition for his revolutionary approach to landscape, depicting dramatic or poignant scenes, with a superb sense of movement, which went against 18th century pictorial convention. He travelled extensively in Europe and had many wealthy and aristocratic patrons. In his later works he abandoned detail and concentrated on atmospheric effects, anticipating Impressionism. Turner never married, but was hardworking and frugal, with excellent business sense. He wanted to leave some of his considerable fortune to fund an almshouse for poor artists, and left plans for a special gallery to be built for his work. At his death in 1851 all the works in his possession were donated to the National Gallery, and today most of these are housed in the Clore Gallery at the Tate. The annual Turner prize of £20,000 was set up by the Friends of the Tate Gallery in 1984 to encourage the collection of contemporary art.
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