Joseph Mallord William Turner – Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437852
The son of a London barber and wigmaker, Turner dominated English landscape and marine painting in the first half of the nineteenth century. He studied in the Royal Academy schools from 1789 and first showed a painting at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1796; he was elected an academician in 1802 and continued to exhibit until 1850
A strategically located Cornish market town on the west bank of Plymouth Sound, near
