The Fighting Temeraire

Joseph Mallord William Turner, known during his lifetime as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter who is regarded as one of the greatest British painters of the 19th century. His expressive renditions of light and atmosphere and bold use of colour in landscape painting inspired the early impressionist painters Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.

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.