The Fighting Temeraire

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

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.