A biography of Joseph Mallord William Turner, one of the great artists, not only of England but of the world, is remembered as a painter of the sea and sly, of light, mist and storm and of the huge and remote.A biography of Joseph Mallord William Turner, one of the great artists, not only of England but of the world, is remembered as a painter of the sea and sly, of light, mist and storm and of the huge and remote.