Artist J.M.W.Turner 1775 - 1851. Perhaps the most famous English Romantic landscape artist. He became known as 'the painter of light'. Art history in the making for all modern art can be said to derive from Romanticism

Giudecca la Donna della Salute and San Georgio, 1841, 24 x 36, Mr William Wood Prince and the Art Institute of Chicargo

This painting, which sold for £20.5m ($35.8m) at a New York auction, has set the record for highest auction price ever to be paid for a British artist's painting. J.M.W. Turner's view of Venice called Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio, smashed the previous record which was held for a John Constable painting The Lock, sold for £12.1m ($21.2m) in 1990.