约瑟夫·马洛德·威廉·透纳（1775年4月23日－1851年12月19日），男，是英国最为著名，技艺最为精湛的艺术家之一，19世纪上半叶英国学院派画家的代表，在透纳以善于描绘光与空气的微妙关系而闻名于世，尤其对水气弥漫的掌握有独到之处。他在艺术史上的特殊贡献是把风景画与历史画、肖像画摆到了同等的地位。西方艺术史上无可置疑地位于最杰出的风景画家之列。

Joseph Malode William Turner (23 April 1775-19 December 1851), a man, is one of the most famous and skilled artists in Britain. In the first half of the 19th century, the representative of the British Academic Painters was famous for his delicate relationship between light and air, especially his mastery of air diffusion. His special contribution in the history of art is to put landscape painting in the same position as historical painting and portrait painting. In the history of Western art, it is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding landscape painters.