To find a blacker black . . .

Today is the birthday of Joseph Mallord William Turner, Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. He became known as the painter of light.


"Painting is a strange business." - J. M. W. Turner

"If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it." - J. M. W. Turner

Trivia bit: There is no record of Turner's actual date of birth, which was sometime between late April and early May of 1775. The artist himself chose April 23 as the best candidate, possibly because it is also St. George's Day (patron saint of England, among many other places and organizations) . . . [1]