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When did J.M.W. Turner first travel to Italy?
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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 set out on his first visit to Italy in the summer of 1819. During this trip, he spent three months in Rome and also visited Naples, Florence, and Venice before returning home in midwinter.1