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[[Image:Turner Dido Carthage.jpg|thumb|Dido building Carthage, 1815.]]
[[Image:Turner Dido Carthage.jpg|thumb|Dido building Carthage, 1815.]]
[[William Turner]] (Covent Garden 1775 - [[London]] 1851) was a [[British]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[painter]].
[[William Turner]] (Covent Garden 1775 - [[London]] 1851) was a [[British]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[painter]].
''In satisfying the fashion for ruins, mountains and
waterfalls, he was pleasing and nourishing himself. Ruined abbeys awoke his feel
ings of history and so charged his mind with the fallacies of hope that this became
the title of a chaotic, illiterate epic from which, throughout his life, he quoted
mottoes for his pictures.'' [[Ibidem]]
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