Simon Schama: J.M.W. Turner

Turner was on a delirious visionary trip that would culminate in the greatest British painting of the nineteenth century
Simon Schama

In this beautiful four-part series, Art Historian, Simon Schama, recounts the life of artist, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker.

Tipped as the 'next great thing' in British painting, Turner's piece The Slave Ship caused outrage when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Watch Simon Schama's exquisitely made BBC documentary on this visionary artist and how he triumphed over the Establishment to become one of the world's greatest painters.