What job did J.M.W. Turner’s father have?

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J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838 — J.M.W. Turner *The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838*, oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1839; in the National Gallery, London.

J.M.W. Turner’s father was a barber. Later in life, after Turner’s mother was committed to a mental hospital around 1800, his father moved in with him and spent the remainder of his life working as his son’s studio assistant and general agent.1