*Romantic is a descriptive word applied to art, music, and literature, mainly of the early 19th century, which share common quality. These include energetic individuality with an affinity to the natural world. Artists in the group whose pieces were Romantic include  Constable, Girtin, Friedrich, Delacroix, and of course Turner.

        Turner became interested in contemporary technology, as can be seen from "The Fighting Temeraire" and "Rain, Steam and Speed". At the time his free, expressive handling of these subjects was criticized, but it is now widely appreciated.
  
    The Turner Bequest is the name given to the gift of a large number of paintings and drawings which the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner  made posthumously to the British nation. Most of these works are now in the Clore Gallery at the Tate Gallery on Millbank, London, in one institution, as he wished. Not counting real estate the artist's fortune was valued at £140,000, including more than 19,000 paintings watercolours and drawings. Around 250 for every year of his life. However the Royal Academy conditionally left £1000, got £20,000, and distant relations, not mentioned in his will, got the houses and money: We the public never got our complete collection of Turner's work held together in one gallery as requested, until the Clore Gallery 140 years late- a violation of Turner's rights.
     Under the terms of the Turner Bequest, two of his paintings were directed to be hung in the National Gallery with two of the gallery's pictures by Claude, as they now are in the marvelous Room 15.