Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist, and printmaker; commonly known as "the painter of light," now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence.

The object of his work is recognizable, accurate, vivid, and precise. If the observer went there, he would know it again, from Turner's artistic view of memory. Particularly, "Ivy Bridge" (1813), or maybe "Chichester Canal" (1815), or "Ovid Banished From Rome" (1838); but hopefully never amidst this overwhelming display of "The shipwreck of the Minotaur" (1810).