James Mallord William <strong>Turner</strong> entered the Royal Academy at 14 and a year later was exhibiting. His first loves were architecture, engraving and ... » 

James Mallord William Turner entered the Royal Academy at 14 and a year later was exhibiting. His first loves were architecture, engraving and watercolours, and the country houses, cathedrals and landscape of England. He was mean with money, never married, and spent a lot of his life living in taverns. His dying words were: 'The Sun is God.' «