Identity:

Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter.

Life:

His work was first copied (Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water' (M.176)), then both admired and rejected by Whistler.

Bibliography:

Butlin, Martin, and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner, London and New Haven, 1984; Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 2004.