Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolour, drawing and engraving as Turner. This book traces his career from youthful picturesque views and watercolours of ‘Gothic’ ruins to the romantic landscape and historical compositions of his maturity, and the astonishing near-abstracts of his later years, unintelligible to his contemporaries but acclaimed as visionary today. Revised and updated by the curator of the Turner Bequest at Tate, David Blayney Brown, to reflect recent discoveries and interpretations.