J.M.W. Turner

The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834, 1835

National Gallery of Art - "Rising from a modest background, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) became the leading British artist of his era. Over the course of six decades, he transformed the genre of landscape through works that proclaimed his heir the old masters even while they heralded new and visionary direction in 19th-century painting."
J.M.W. Turner