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When did J.M.W. Turner begin exhibiting paintings at the Royal Academy?
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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 entered the Royal Academy schools in 1789 and began exhibiting his watercolors there shortly thereafter. By 1796, he also began exhibiting oil paintings at the Royal Academy.1