The Fighting Temeraire

Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter. He elevated the status of landscape painting and is considered a precursor of Impressionism and one of the greatest and most influential British painters.

The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839.